Elisabeth Lea Root, born 21 June 1879 in Port Nassau in Lower Saramacca in Dutch Gyana, was a daughter of Mozes Root from Amsterdam and Leentje Frank from Utrecht. She was the 2nd of seven children of Mozes and Leentje, who were married in Paramaribo in 1875. There, in Surinam, her sisters Esther and Hanna Marie were born and also her brother Abraham Hartog.
When her parents with the family return…