Sid Socklyn

Name: Sid Socklyn
Birth Name: Sidney Shimka Soklyn
Hometown: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Birthplace: Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: 1962-06-03 (Age:62)
Pro Boxer: Record

According to his naturalization petitions in digital form in Nebraska, Federal Naturalization Petitions and Records, 1890-1957 database on Ancestry.com, one Sidney Shimka Soklyn, a salesman and a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, was born in "Kief," Russia on May 25, 1900. During 1904, he emigrated from London, United Kingdom and entered the United States when arriving in New York, New York. According to an accompanying affidavit in digital form, Soklyn served in the United States Army from June 13, 1918 to April 15, 1919. The naturalization petitions were dated January 30, 1936.

According to the Find A Grave website, one Sidney S. Soklyn was born on May 25, 1900 and died on June 3, 1962. He is buried in the Golden Hill Cemetery in Omaha, Nebraska. Soklyn's tombstone has a Star of David and what appears to be an inscription in Hebrew.