Scott, Hannah

Plot Location	4D1
Surname	Scott
Given Name(s)	Hannah
Place of Birth	Krasnoyarsk, Siberia
Date of Birth (Eng)	circa 1908
Date of Birth (Heb)
Date of Death (Eng)	April 5, 1934
Date of Death (Heb)
Age at Death	26
Hebrew Name
Spouse’s Name	Glenn James Scott
Father’s Name	Moisey Kapoolin
Mother’s Name	Hvola Kapoolina
Other Surnames
Sex	F
Marital Status	W
Maiden Name	Kapoolin
Title (e.g., Dr)
Religious Status (כ/ל/י)
Cause of Death	“Misadventure” (motorcycle accident), which occurred on the corner of Johnston Road and Arsenal Street
Other Family Data	Brother: David Morris Kapoolin (Kapoulin) (b. August 9, 1909, Krasnoyarsk; d. September 21, 1993, Sydney). There may have been another brother named Aron (b. 1895; d. 1977) and three sisters, Ginda Polonskaya, Lyubov Vishevnik and Pasha Ostromukhova.
Inscription (Eng)	HANNAH SCOTT DIED 5TH. APR. 1934 AGED 26 YEARS.
Inscription (Heb)
Inscription (Other)	“B.J. & Co.” on front left; “155” on right
Historical	She had arrived in HK in 1933 and was working as a hairdresser and manicurist at Alexandre Beauty Parlour at the time of her death. She had gone out for dinner with a male friend (Eric Mitford) who picked her up in a borrowed motorcycle with a sidecar, where she was seated. As he was turning a corner, a tire blew and the bike flipped over. He survived. She and James married in Shanghai in August 1926. She was 18 and he was 25. He had been working there from November 1925 as a clerk and draftsman for Palmer & Turner. They left Shanghai for the US between June and September 1927, and then he began work in January 1928 as a rate clerk for S. P. Ry & Co. He changed jobs a few more times after that, eventually becoming a levelman for the Northern Pacific Railway Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. He resigned from that job in July 1930 on account of illness but not before cashing a bad cheque for $15 at a hotel. In May 1931, it was reported in the newspaper that he had hung himself in jail while serving a 30-day sentence for cashing the cheque. Hannah may have stayed in San Francisco while James was in St. Paul. The 1930 US Census shows that she was living with her brother, David, there. She claimed that she was still married to him though. David appears to be living back to Shanghai at the time of her death. He and his wife eventually moved to Brazil where they obtained citizenship and then to Sydney. They are buried in Rookwood Cemetery (he in the Jewish section; she in the Russian section). His gravestone says that their father’s Hebrew name was Pinchas but that seems unlikely.

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