I went back to the cemetery for unrelated reasons and but took the time to locate the headstone with Armenian Script again. There were Armenian names on the surrounding stones, but nothing on the back of the one I saw. However, lying flat behind the stone and to the left was this stone
So it was a T, not an R. I had only said vowels, not diphthongs for letters 2, 3, 5, & 6, but if you had forced me to choose I would have said I, not O, which looked too impossible, so I evaded the issue. So... Tootoonjian, Charles M 1858-1933. There are some Tootoonjians in NH who look to be one and two generations later, and two in Massachusetts as well. There are Tutunjians on Long Island who may have simply had a different recorder at Ellis Island or something. If I remember it while I am the city library sometime, I will look them up and see the street addresses for the three. I am betting it will be South Manchester.
For those who like this sort of old Manchester history, Charles is not far from Milton and Plato Canotas, who started the Puritan restaurants, some of the centers of old Manchester culture, and still prominent, even though I never run into people there like I used to.
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