Solved ! Help needed with word or name:of Hesla or Heshla on a gravestone #names # gravestones #names


Judith27
 

I want to thank everyone who replied and tried to help me.
 
I am happy to report that this morning I found the answer to my recent question about four Hebrew letters on a gravestone. Even though none of her surviving children remembered her name as anything other than Leiba, one of them sent me a copy of her Ketubah which names her as Hashla Leiba, just as apparently it does on the matzeva, so it turns out is an uncommon Yiddish name. 
 
Happy Chanukah, 
 
Judi Langer-Surnamer Caplan