Family legend holds that after his father's death Stepan was sent to study with the Mekhitarist monks in Venice and then around 1903 joined his father's brothers in Philadelphia. Sarkis's daughter Markarid remained in Malatya and was likely deported to the Syrian desert as part of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. In 1955 she was discovered to be living in the border town of Ain al-Arab, Syria after reaching out to an Armenian refugee organization to find her family. She was reunited with her brother Stepan through letters which they exchanged over the remaining three years until his death.
Family legend holds that after his father's death Stepan was sent to study with the Mekhitarist monks in Venice and then around 1903 joined his father's brothers in Philadelphia. Sarkis's daughter Markarid remained in Malatya and was likely deported to the Syrian desert as part of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. In 1955 she was discovered to be living in the border town of Ain al-Arab, Syria after reaching out to an Armenian refugee organization to find her family. She was reunited with her brother Stepan through letters which they exchanged over the remaining three years until his death.
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