Arizona Jewish Historical Society
Beryl Morton, Executive Director
4710 N. 16th Street, #201
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Tel: 602-241-7870
Fax: 602-264-9773
Email: azjhs@aol.com
Website: http://aspin.asu.edu/azjhs/
Leona G. and David A. Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives
See University of Arizona Library below
Plotkin Museum of Judaica
Pamela Levin, Director
1046 N. 56th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
tel: 602.951.0323, ext. 146
fax: 602.951.7150
Email: tbeth@primenet.com
Web Site: http://www.templebethisrael.com
University of Arizona Library
Special Collections
1510 E. University
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, Arizona 85721
tel. 520-621-6423
fax-520-621-9733
CASA GRANDE: Pinal County http://www.dakotacom.net/~jerim/ has
general Pima County information. [August 2005]
Jewish cemeteries or cemeteries where Jews are buried in southern
Arizona (city of Casa Grande and south to border with Mexico)
from the Genealogy Committee, Jewish Historical Society of
Southern Arizona, Inc. that compiled the information as of
December 1993. Submitted by Alfred Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net
DOUGLAS: Cochise County http://www.mycochise.com/ has
general Cochise County information. [August 2005]
1919 population was 100 according to "Directory of Jewish Local
Organizations in the United States" pp. 330-583. American
Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25, 1919 to Sept. 12, 1920,
Vol. 21, edited by Harry Schneiderman for the American Jewish
Committee submitted by Alan Hirschfeld.
Bisbee-Douglas Jewish Cemetery: {10239} Founded in
1904 near the Mexican border, the cemetery was restored, refenced
and cleaned in 1992 by students and numerous others. Source:
Southwest Jewish Archives, 621-5774. Web page:
http://128.196.228.12/images/swja/v13douglascem.htm. David
Eppele, who has a cactus nursery at Bisbee, was instrumental in
the restoration, keeping the southwestern look by restoring the
barbed wire fence. Source: Arline Sachs sachs@nova.org. This abandoned Jewish
cemetery has 13 graves. The names and dates are included in the
JHSSA Index. The cemetery is included in the State of Arizona of
Historical Places. There are NO records available for the
burials. This was the first Jewish Cemetery developed in the
State of Arizona. Source: Alfred E. Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net. [July
2000] http://www.best.com/~isjm/Buildings/records/BR023.htm:
built 1904 near the Mexican border and abandoned. "Situated on
the city's eastern limits, and surrounded by private property, it
contains thirty identifiable graves. Established in 1904, and one
of two (?) abandoned Jewish cemeteries in the state. 150 x 200
feet, containing no more than 30 graves, situated on what is now
the eastern limits of the city, surrounded by private property,
mostly undeveloped. Douglas was an early prosperous town with
many Jewish merchants, the cemetery was started three years after
the town was settled." [January 2001] Between San Antonio Avenue
and Washington below 6th. Office of Vital Records, P.O. Box 3887,
Phoenix, AZ 85030-3887 for 1905-34, 18 graves. UPDATE: http://www.mycochise.com/cemdoscabezas.php and
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/cochise/cemeteries/doscabezas.txt have
burial list. http://isjm.best.vwh.net/Buildings/records/BR023.htm:
Established in 1904, the cemetery is one of two abandoned Jewish
cemeteries in the state. 150x200 feet, no more than 30 graves.
Located on eastern limits of the city, site is surrounded by
private property, mostly undeveloped. [August 2005]
Green Valley Memorial Cemetery: {10238} 2200 N. Canada
Dr., Green Valley, AZ 85614 has about 100 graves of which six are
Jewish graves [1996]. More burials have since been added. Source:
Alfred E. Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net
City of Mesa Cemetery: Temple Beth Section;
964-6727
NOGALES: Santa Cruz County
Nogales Jewish Cemetery: {10236} 1980, 24 Cemetery St
W and Bejarno, Nogales ZA. Affiliated with Temple Emanu-El.
Contact: Robert Bracker, 276 W. Kolver St, Nogales, AZ 85746. For
burial information contact Mrs. Roberta Bracker, 276 W. Kolver
St., Nogales, AZ 85646. All names and dates of burials through
1995 are included in the JHSSA's Index. More burials have been
added. The Index also covers Jewish graves in the Nogales City
Cemetery. Contact Mrs. Bracker for information on these. Source:
Alfred E. Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net [July
2000]
Nogales City Cemetery: {10237} Cemetery St W and
Bayze. Adair's Caroon Mortuary, 191 N. Grand Ave, Nogales, AZ
85621. Mason Lodge Sec. and Veteran's Section
PHOENIX: Maricopa County http://www.rootsweb.com/~azmarico/ has
general Maricopa County information. [August 2005]
Source: Cemeteries of the US, Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research
Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; submitted by: Al
Rosenfield, Columbus OH; e-mail: arosen@ee.net
The original papers to form the Jewish Cemetery Association were
drawn on November 21, 1890 by Samuel Drachman. Source: http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/bloom/dolls.htm [August
2005]
Beth El Memorial Park: 2300 W. Van Buren Street
Beth Hebrew Cemetery: 3401 W. Jackson Ave.,
248-0030
Beth Israel Memorial Cemetery: 305 S. 35th St.;
264-4428 #00281
Resthaven Cemetery: {10240} No. Airport/8th Ave.
Founded in 1963, there are less than 100 graves. Contact:
Caldwell Funeral Home. 112 East Main St. UPDATE: "The Rest Haven
Cemetary is in the process of a name Change, It will be known
as Gila Valley Memorial Gardens. It is located in Safford, Arizona. From
Highway 70 in Safford you travel North on 8th Avenue across the
Gila River, traveling until the road makes a fork. At the fork you stay to
the right(going East),where the road becomes Airport Road. This
cemetery is about a mile from the fork on the North Side of the Road."
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/graham/cemeteries/resthave.txt and
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/graham/cemeteries/resthav1.txt have
burial list.
Temple Beth Israel Memorial Cemetery: consecrated
Jewish cemetery owned and operated by the Temple. Rabbis and
staff members are available to assist congregants with funeral
arrangements and support [August 2005]
SEDONA: Jewish Community of Sedona and the
Verde Valley, 100 Meadowlark Drive, Mailing address: P.O. Box
10242, Sedona, AZ 86339, 928-204-1286, Fax: 928-284-0906,
www.sedonajewishcommunity.org
Ft. Huachuca Military Cemetery: Sierra Vista, AZ
85613. Contact: Supt. Ft. Huachucha Cemetery.
Cochise Memory Gardens: contact: Hatfield Funeral
Home, P.O. Box 670. 1 grave
UPDATE:
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/cochise/cemeteries/fthuachuca.txt has
burial list. http://www.mycochise.com/cemfthua.php:
"Dates from 1877, when Fort Huachuca was founded. The first
cemetery was located near the corner of Grierson and Mizner
Avenues. Sixteen burials were made there before the present
cemetery was opened on May 18, 1883. The earlier burials were
moved to the new site. Also moved to the new cemetery site were
nearly 100 bodies from old Fort San Carlos, now under the waters
of Coolidge Dam. The new cemetery was closed in May 1948, but was
reopened in September 1967. Though the burials are mainly those
of military personnel and their families, civilians were also
interred there--especially in the earlier years when it was the
practice to bury there bodies found in the desert. A considerable
number of the interments are unidentified." [August 2005]
SUN CITY: Maricopa County
Beth Chayim at Sunland Memorial Park: 15826 N. Del
Webb Blvd.
Sunland Memorial Park Cemetery: 15826 Del Webb Blvd.,
Sun City, AZ 85351-1603, 623.815.1045 or 623.933.0161. South of
Bell Road, between 99th Avenue and 114th Avenue, on the West side
of Dell Webb Blvd.[August 2003]
Tombstone Jewish Cemetery in Boothill Graveyard: "Only
one grave has been located (child), no name. Contact Dr. David
Sirota, 564 S. Corpino de Pecho, Green Valley, AZ 85613. Boothill
Graveyard in historic Tombstone is known throughout the world as
the final resting-place of the Wild West's most legendary
characters. Boothill was established as Tombstone's cemetery in
1879 but closed 1884 because it was full. Located on a hill
facing the Dragoon Mountains, Boothill is designed with long
narrow piles of stones marking its occupants. One area of the
graveyard was reserved for Chinese citizens. Another isolated
area in the far northeast corner is a space once dedicated as a
Jewish cemetery. Local Jews were buried some distance from those
who died naturally or violently in Tombstone's silver rush.
Thousands have visited Boothill, but the existence of the Jewish
cemetery is recalled by only a few. Judge C. Lawrence Hue
recently happened on the historic Jewish cemetery at Boothill
when Tombstone author Al Turner showed the site to him and his
Jewish visitors from Maryland. Defined only by a crumbling, now
only four-foot high adobe brick wall, the approximately
2,500-square foot burial ground was unnoticed for more than 100
years. Judge Lawrence Huerta, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian from
Tucson, was spiritually affected when guest Israel Rubin recited
Kaddish at the abandoned site. He was moved to restore the
desolate graveyard in memory of those now forgotten. "The state
of the Jewish cemetery at Boothill moved me deeply. A burial
place is sacred to my people; and I wanted this place to be
treated with the respect it once had. In honoring my Jewish
brothers, I feel I am also honoring the lost and forgotten bones
of my own people who lay where they fell when the west was being
settled." In March 1983, the Tombstone City Council
wholeheartedly approved Huerta's restoration efforts as did the
Jewish Friendship Club of Green Valley, Arizona, and a non-profit
Arizona corporation was formed to carry out the work involved.
The officers and directors of the corporation have cleaned the
site, built a wrought iron fence to protect the remaining adobe
brick wall, and erected a simple monument to commemorate all
Jewish pioneers who helped to settle the West before the turn of
the century. Rededicating of the site occurred in October 1983.
The monument stands on a platform faced with rock from nearby
silver mines that bears a Mogen David on its east and west sides.
The south face is a HoHoKam Indian sun-symbol -- meaning "those
who vanished" in the Papago Indian language. Representative
Jewish and Indian religious items donated by the officers and
directors of the corporation are inside. Included is soil from
Israel so that those who lie there can "dwell in the house of the
Lord forever." The flames of a especially designed "menorah" atop
the monument spell "Shalom," symbolizing the hope that all who
share Mother Earth can dwell together in harmony. Appropriate
ceremonies marked the dedication of the monument in February
1984. A path was cleared. The site is marked it with an
appropriate sign. These activities were accomplished at a cost of
$3,000. To help create a memorial fund for the perpetual care of
the Jewish Cemetery, all interested persons can make a
tax-deductible donation to an interest-bearing trust account to
pay for the continued care and up-keep of the Jewish Cemetery.
Donations may be sent to the Tombstone Historical Jewish
Graveyard, Inc., 564 Corpino de Pecho, Green Valley, AZ 85614.
Tombstone Historical Jewish Graveyard Inc. websites and handout
from store at Tombstone Cemetery were the source of this
information as was "An Old West Cemetery for Jews is Rededicated
in Tombstone," Special to The New York Times; (Feb. 29,
1984).
Tombstone Historical Jewish Graveyard 00342. See
Cemeteries of the US, Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research
Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; submitted by: Al
Rosenfield, Columbus OH; e-mail: arosen@ee.net. NOTE: There is NO proof
that this "cemetery" was an actual Jewish cemetery. The source
cannot locate any documents consecrating the ground as a Jewish
cemetery. There are NO known Jewish burials in the area that
inhabitants have indicated was a Jewish Cemetery. No records have
been discovered that indicates who might be buried there. The
town is a historic one and Jews were known to have lived there
and died there. Burials, however, usually were conducted at
cemeteries out of state or in larger communities. If indeed there
were Jewish burials here, the records would have been filed in
the town of Bisbee but the courthouse burned; and all records
were destroyed. This is a historical glorification that we would
like to make real. Source: Alfred E. Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net [July
2000]
See GREEN VALLEY, Arizona. UPDATE: This is not "Boothill
Cemetery."[August 2005]
TUCSON: Pima County http://www.dakotacom.net/~jerim/ has
general Pima County information. [August 2005] http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/swja/synstucson.htm
lists synagogues in Tucson.
Congregations:
Congregation Anshei Israel, 5550 E. Fifth, Tucson, AZ
85711. (Conservative)
Congregation Young Israel, 2443 E. 4th St, Tucson, AZ 85716
(Orthodox)
Temple Emanu El, 225 N. Country Club, Tucson, AZ 85718
(Reform)
All Faiths Memorial Park: {10548} 2151 S. Avenida, Los
Reyes. 1996. Source: JHSSA Index publication courtesy of Alfred
E. Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net [July
2000].
City Cemetery: (a.k.a. Court Street Cemetery)
"From 1883 to 1907, Jews were interred in the B'nai Brith (IOOB)
section of the City Cemetery (also referred to as the "Jewish
Cemetery" in obituaries, mortuary records, etc. as the "Court
Street Cemetery"), which was established in 1875. It was located
between the present North Main Avenue on the west, North Stone
Ave. (then called North Eighth Ave.) on the east, Second St. on
the south and present-day Speedway Boulevard on the north. The
cemetery included sections for Catholics and Protestant
denominations and various fraternal organizations. In 1907, the
Tucson Town Council passed an ordinance prohibiting burials
within the city limits. Bodies in the City Cemetery had to be
moved over the next 20 years to Evergreen Cemetery." Source:
JHSSA Index publication courtesy of Alfred E. Lipsey
lipseya@prodigy.net [July 2000]. Documents exist in (AJA)
American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio
45220-2488; phone (513) 221-1875: Tombstone Historical Jewish
Graveyard: Letters to Dr. Jacob R. Marcus from Mr. C. Lawrence
Huerta concerning the dedication of a monument at the cemetery in
honor of Jewish pioneers who helped settle the American West.
Tucson, AZ. Feb. 7, 1984. Correspondence file
East Lawn Palms Cemetery: {10234} 5801 E. Grant Road,
Tucson, AZ 85712. Jewish Section Adm, 1960. Source: JHSSA Index
publication courtesy of Alfred E. Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net [July
2000].
Evergreen Cemetery: {10233} 3015 N. Oracle Rd.,
Tucson, AZ 85705. Activated in 1907 when the Town Council ended
burials within city limits, most bodies were relocated to the
B'nai Brith section. However for some burials in the old
cemetery, there are no records indicating that the bodies were
actually moved. Perhaps no family members were available to
effect the removals. Since that time, homes & commercial
establishments have been erected on the cemetery grounds. Source:
Alfred Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net. Sections: B'nai B'rith
Section, General Cemetery Section, I.O.O.F. Lodge Section.
Knights of Pythias Section, Masonic Lodge Section, Workman's
Circle Section
South Lawn Cemetery: {10235} Veterans Section Adm,
5401 S. Park Ave., Tucson, AZ 85746. 1940/ Source: JHSSA Index
publication courtesy of Alfred E. Lipsey lipseya@prodigy.net
[July 2000]. UPDATE:
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/pima/cemeteries/southlawn.txt has
burial list-partial. [August 2005]
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