Adella ("Adele") Tauber (Teschner)

Adella Tauber (née Teschner) was named in honor of her maternal grandmother, Adel Kohn (née Lasar) (1784-1849). She was born in Vag Besztercze, Hungary on 28 April 1851 and died in Manhattan, New York on 31 May 1902, age 51 years. Her cause of death was a heart attack. In 1891, she brought two of her daughters (Anna and Rudy) to the United States and left them in the household of her cousin, Augusta Paskus (née Teschner) of Manhattan. She then returned to Hungary. In 1894, another daughter, Irma Tauber, then age 18, was also sent over. Finally, on Thanksgiving Day, 1897, Adella, her husband Simon, and their remaining children all arrived in New York City.

While still in Europe, she was intimate friends with Baroness Hermine Popper von Podhragy, wife of her cousin, Baron Armin Popper von Podhragy. On her periodic visits to Baroness Hermine's palatial residence in Trencin, Adele would always return with collections of books that Hermine wanted Adele to give to her family. According to family lore, it was through these books that Adele's seven daughters first learned to read.

Rosebud Solis-Cohen (née Teschner) wrote the following about Adella: "Daughter of Moses Teschner. Born in Austria-Hungary, her father and mother never came to America. Married a Mr. TAUBER and had a large family of daughters (maybe 8 or 10 of them). Many years after the other Teschners came over, she started sending her girls to America. They stayed with the Pascuz and Pincus families until the whole family was able to come. Mrs. Tauber was a smart woman and often joined the men in their discussions. She died very early in life, not many years after she arrived in America. Some of the daughters were Anna, Irma, and a beautiful girl named Flora. Mrs. Tauber had a sister who came over a few years later. I believe she and her family went on to Chicago. In 1901, when Isaac and Katie Teschner were on their honeymoon, they visited another sister of Mrs. Tauber's in Bistritz. She and her husband ran a general store in the town, and they had several children."

Adele Tauber's death certificate indicates that she died in Manhattan, New York on 31 May 1902 at 11:00 a.m. of "cardiac mitral rigor" and "acute bronchitis". It incorrectly gives her age as "40 years" [she was actually age 51] and indicates that her father was "Moses DESHNER, born in Hungary". She died in her residence, a tenement at 643 E. 9th Street, NYC, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery on 1 June 1902. Her death certificate also states that she was a native of Hungary and had been in the U.S. (in the City of New York) for five years.