Elias Vos was a son of Salomon Vos and Betje Elias Jacobs. He was born in Amsterdam on 30 May 1859 and earned his living as a merchant. On 25 August 1880 he married in Amsterdam Saartje Koort, a daughter of Samuel Koort and Mirjman Nunes Vaz. Saartje was born on 24 July 1858.
The Vos-Nunes Vas couple had four children, vis. Samuel, Benzion, Jaantje and Betsy. Samuel, as well Betsy, died at young a…