Johanna Parker wrote:
[quote=blackrayne"]
He says she was his mother's sister and you're asking here if she's a real person????
Sure, because that book's rather strong on the site of fantasy. I couldn't find any data for Etta Stone, and obviously have no idea what her married name might have been... if she's even real.[/quote]
Her parents were Lithuanian Jews who immigrated here - purportedly in 1902 - from a Turkish Armenian border area, likely speaking no English, among millions who passed through Ellis Island that year to settle in New York City or board a rail car to God-knows-where. That's what people did in those days. Their names were likely changed at Ellis Island to something "Americanized' - there is almost zero likelihood their original name was "Stone" - it may have been changed once they were in America to make it 'easier' for them - by them or by someone who hired them or enrolled them in school.
A record of her might be found in bat mitzvah or marriage records with her local synagogue but you'd have to know her name and the city she lived in as a child or at time of marriage. Even with that, many synagogues do not have records that old - and she may not have had a bat mitzvah and possibly never married. If she lived in Duluth, there might be records for her at Temple Israel, which merged Temple Israel (founded 1891 as a Reform temple by German Jews) and Tifereth Israel (founded 1893 by Eastern European Jews). There's also Adas Israel (formed in the 1890s by Lithuanian Jews - which is Orthodox).
Weird as 'Chronicles' is, I think Dylan fabricating a maternal aunt and giving her a made-up name would be so disrespectful of his family that Bob Dylan would never do such a thing.
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