International Jewish Cemetery Project

International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies - Cemetery Project

CONNECTICUT

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY

As of 2000, Connecticut has two area codes: 203 for Fairfield and New Haven Counties and 860 for the rest of the state.

Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut
Contact information at: http://iajgs.org/members/members.html

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Bridgeport
3135 Park Avenue
Fairfield, CT 06432
(203) 335-3638

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
335 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
(860) 236-4571

Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven
P.O. Box 3251
New Haven, CT 06515-0351
(203) 392-5860

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Stamford
PO Box 3326
Stamford, CT 06905-0326
(203) 321-1373, ext. 150
Fax: 203-322-6081
Email: imvm@aol.com

Jewish Historical Society of Waterbury
PO Box F
Waterbury, CT 06798

SYNAGOGUES IN CONNECTICUT
http://www.maven.co.il/synagogues/

The Connecticut Jewish Ledger , 924 Farmington Ave., West Hartford, CT 06107 annually publishes, "All Things Jewish." They have current lists of synagogues, cemeteries, funeral parlors, chevra kadisha and stonecutters in Connecticut with accurate telephone numbers and addresses. The telephone number is 1-800-286-6397. The fax is 860-231-2428. CTJLedger@aol.com. Source: Lenn Zonder, President, Congregation Sinai, 426 Washington Avenue, PO Box 309, West Haven, CT 06516-0309; e-mail: lenwrite@snet.net

Hale Collection (1934)
(The Connecticut State Tombstone Collection, circa 1934): Edward A Cohen, 25 Stoneham Drive, West Hartford, CT 06117 (203) 523-5521. (NOTE: Shomer Shabbos: Please do not call on Friday nights or Saturdays) and Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, CT 07064, who worked with Edward Cohen. If there is a number under the number of graves column, they have found those cemeteries. The date shows when they completed that cemetery. For more up-to-date information, contact them. (total 25,044 graves):
Volume 1 Introduction Years
   Hale-Summary 1780-1934
   Hale-towns A to G 1780-1934
   Hale-Fairfield 1780-1934
   Hale- Hartford 1780-1934
Volume 2 HARTFORD: Hartford, Ct: Garden, Waverly, Tower, Cleveland Ave Cemeteries
   General Map
   Names A-L 3100 names
   Names M-Z 2500 names
Volume 3 Garden, Waverly, Tower, Cleveland Ave Cemeteries
   This disk shows how the stones are laid out, walking through the cemetery and marching down the stones.
   NWmap
   SWmap
   NEmap
Volume 4 Mahl Avenue and Old North Cemetery (Central)
   Names
   MahlMap walking through
   Old North map
Volume 5 Zion Hill Cemetery and Southern Hartford - (Incomplete as 6/1992)
   Names
   Map
   Jewish Cemeteries of Hartford, Connecticut: The Cohen/Goldfarb Collection, Vol. 1 by Edward A. Cohen and Lewis Goldfarb. Published in 1995 by Heritage Books, Inc.

THE CEMETERIES
Hartford New Haven ALLINGTOWN: {10836}

Farwell : Location is Farwell St. See New Haven because Beth El is in New Haven. The former Temple Keser Israel's Allington cemetery, now merged with Beth El.

AVON:

Beth Israel Cemetery : Avon Jews bought farmland off Jackson Street in the 1950's for a burial ground. The oldest stones date from 1958. The synagogue is on Albany Avenue in West Hartford. The original Beth Israel Cemetery is in Hartford (Zion Hill near Trinity College). The synagogue purchased a piece of land from Beth El in the late 1980's for a new cemetery. The new burial ground is right next to Beth El's in Avon. Because the cemetery is new (opened around 1990), there are few gravesites. Beth Israel is on Farmington Ave. in West Hartford. Source: James Rappaport.
Farmington Valley Jewish : Congregation was founded due to the settlement of many Jewish residents in Avon, Canton, Farmington, and Simsbury since the late 1960's. The burial ground was purchased in the late 1980's. It is a very small site, right behind the Post Office in Avon Center (Old Avon Village). There are a few gravestones present. The synagogue is on Route 167 in Simsbury. Rabbi Herman may still be there. Source: James Rappaport;

BRIDGEPORT: Hartford County

Mountain Grove Cemetery: Non-Jewish cemetery with some Jewish burials; source: Henry Rosenberg; henryr@javanet.com
Park Cemetery - Adath Israel Cemetery: 620 Lindley Street Bridgeport, CT 06606. The inactive Orthodox cemetery is not land-marked. The last known Jewish burial was 1929. The urban cemetery location on a hillside is part of a municipal cemetery.
UPDATE: From the Jewish Ledger, Published: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:05 PM EDT
Loyalty Lodge adopts forgotten Bridgeport Jewish cemetery
By Cindy Mindell
BRIDGEPORT Martin Green is often asked to play detective in the Hebrew Sick Benefit Association cemetery on Black Rock Turnpike in Fairfield. As the financial secretary of the HSBA, and son of the late Abraham L. Green, a longtime Fairfield funeral director, Martin knows how to track down a gravesite or decipher an old death certificate.
A year ago, Green got a call from a man looking for the grave of Ruth Coakley, a child buried somewhere in Bridgeport or Fairfield. Green first looked in the obvious places: the HSBA cemetery, and the adjacent Adath Israel plot n to no avail.
A bit of history: HSBA, founded in 1895, started its cemetery in 1903. Six years earlier, Congregation Adath Israel, the first Orthodox synagogue in Bridgeport, was established on Washington Avenue. The congregation purchased a narrow strip of land in the multi-denominational Park Cemetery on Lindley Street. In 1906, the synagogue bought a section of the HSBA cemetery on Black Rock Turnpike, and continued to use the Park Cemetery plot until 1932.
Adath Israel merged with another congregation in 1985, and its cemetery records and upkeep were eventually transferred to the Jewish Home for the Elderly in Fairfield. After several years, HSBA agreed to take over maintenance of the former Adath Israel cemetery on Black Rock Turnpike.
Among the documents that accompanied the property transfer was a list of people buried in Park Cemetery. Neither the Jewish Home nor Park Cemetery knew who owned the plot, or why that burial list was included with the Adath Israel papers.
Green checked the list for Ruth Coakley, and there she was, buried in 1918, aged 11 months.
He found the narrow strip of land at the edge of the Bridgeport cemetery, and discovered a legible inscription on one of the headstones. When he tracked down the matching death certificate, he discovered the name of the cemetery owner: Congregation Adath Israel.
Neglected and dormant for more than 70 years, the Jewish burial ground was barely recognizable. The chain-link fence surrounding the plot was rusty and leaning, many headstones broken or never erected, and the ground badly sunken from the adjacent I-95 Connector construction project in the 1960s. Green immediately wanted to adopt the cemetery, and his fellow Loyalty Lodge members agreed.
"The people buried there ought to be remembered," he says. Loyalty Lodge paid for initial clean-up, and now, Green says, wants to raise funds to regrade the land, replace the fence, and repair broken headstones. Markers will be placed on unmarked graves n 111 children and 50 adults, out of a total of 158 burials. In addition, Loyalty Lodge will hold an annual fund-raiser to establish a perpetual-care fund. Green plans to rededicate the cemetery this fall.
"We're hoping to track down some of the families with relatives buried there who will help us with the restoration," Green says.
Now Green and Loyalty Lodge president Bernie Simmons have a new enigma on their hands: Charles W. Knopow was killed in action in France during World War I, just one month before the November 1918 Armistice. The 24-year-old Knopow is buried in the Adath Israel cemetery, beneath a tall grey-granite marker sculpted as a tree chopped off mid-trunk, the symbol typically used to connote a young life cut short. Green and Simmons have been unable to locate any of Knopow's relatives, but hope to learn more about the young Jewish soldier buried in Bridgeport.
Contact: Martin H. Green at Martin H. Green Memorials, 6395 Main Street, Trumbull, CT 06611, 203-452-1221. neergm@hotmail.com completed the survey on 4-10-2007. [June 2007]

SYNAGOGUES:

Agudas Achim	Orthodox	(203) 335-6353
Bikur Cholim	Orthodox	(203) 336-2272
B'nai Israel	Reform	(203) 336-1858
Rodeph Sholom	Conservative	(203) 334-0159
Shaare Torah	Orthodox	(203) 372-6513

CANTON: see AVON

CHESHIRE:

Beth David : Jewish section of municipal cemetery.

COLCHESTER:
Burials before 1930 are listed in Winter 1990 ROOTS-KEY (JGSLA).

Colchester Jewish Aid Jewish Congregation of Lebanon, Gillette Lane, Colchester CT 06415. DIRECTIONS: Route 84 East to Route 2 to Exit 18; left onto Middletown Road; left onto Gillettes Lane; Cemetery entrance on right. Source: Weinstein Mortuary, http://www.weinsteinmortuary.com/cemeteries.cfm
Congregation Ahavath Achim, Taintor Hill Road, Colchester CT 06415, Source: Weinstein Mortuary, DIRECTIONS: Route 84 East to Route 2 to Exit 18; left onto Middletown Road; left onto Cabin Road; right onto Taintor Hall Road; cemetery will be on the left. Source: Weinstein Mortuary, http://www.weinsteinmortuary.com/cemeteries.cfm

DANBURY:

Children of Israel : Miry Brook Road
Mount Moses : Orthodox
Sons of Israel Cemetery : Mire Brook Road, just south of Danbury Mall. Used by Congregation B'nai Israel at 792-6161. Size .5 acre, all Jewish.
United Jewish Center uses United Jewish Center Cemetery on Miry Brook Road and on Gray's Bridge Road, Brookfield; Reform & Traditional; 748-3355. Size is .5 acre, all Jewish. Second location: Gray's Bridge Road, Brookfield, CT (located just off Federal Road, exit off RT 7 North) This location used by United Jewish.
Wooster Cemetery : 20 Elsworth Ave. small Jewish section used prior to 1932

DARIEN: see Stamford

New Jewish Cemetery : 303 Hoyt Street
Old Jewish Cemetery : 305 Hoyt Street

DEEP RIVER:

Fountainhill Cemetery : Beth Shalom section. Source: James Rappaport - data from Hartfort Courant

EAST HAVEN:

Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery : This cemetery belongs to the Beth Hamedrosh Hagadol Bnai Israel. Used by Westville Synagogue located at 74 West Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06515. The office phone number is 203-389-9513. The Cemetery Chairman is Elliott Croll at 203-239-7372. This is one of the major cemeteries on a street located directly across from the Bikur Cholim Cemetery. Source: Herman H. Lurie, ( hlurie@aol.com ), Member and Past President of Westville Synagogue, Member of Independent Vilner Lodge. (see end of East Haven)
Jewish People's Cemetery : About 60-65 monuments. These cemeteries are located in a residential block bounded by Victor St, Gerald St., Kenneth Street and Duncan Street. Directions to cemetery: From Main Street in East Haven (coming from New Haven area) make a right turn on to Thompson Avenue (town hall and a Webster Bank on each corner). Proceed down Thompson Avenue for 8 streets (counted on the right side of the street). At Victor St., take a right and go 1 block. The first cemetery without a name on your right is the Jewish People's Cemetery that faces Duncan St. The cemetery directly behind this cemetery is the The Vilner Lodge Memorial Park. This cemetery gate faces Gerald Street. The Jewish People's Cemetery is under the jurisdiction of Westville Synagogue located at 74 West Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06515. The office phone number is 203-389-9513. The Cemetery Chairman is Elliott Croll at (h) 203-239-7372. Westville Synagogue located at 74 West Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06515. The office phone number is 203-389-9513. The Cemetery Chairman is Elliott Croll at (h) 203-239-7372. Source: Herman H. Lurie, ( hlurie@aol.com ), Member and Past President of Westville Synagogue, Member of Independent Vilner Lodge.
Bikur Cholum : Brockett Place. Source: Flora Gursky; e-mail: gurskyh@erols.com
Congregation Shevet Achim Cemetery : Brockett Place. Source: Flora Gursky; e-mail: gurskyh@erols.com
Hebrew Free Burial Association : Brockett Place. Source: Flora Gursky; e-mail: gurskyh@erols.com
Independent New Haven Lodge : Brockett Place. Source: Flora Gursky; e-mail: gurskyh@erols.com
Independent Rambam Lodge Cemetery : Brockett Place. Source: Flora Gursky; e-mail: gurskyh@erols.com
Vilner Lodge Memorial Park : Located directly in back of this cemetery is the Jewish People's Cemetery with about 50 to 65 [?] monuments. Westville Synagogue located at 74 West Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06515. The office phone number is 203-389-9513. The Cemetery Chairman is Elliott Croll at (h) 203-239-7372. Source: Herman H. Lurie, hlurie@aol.com ), Member and Past President of Westville Synagogue, Member of Independent Vilner Lodge

FAIRFIELD:
FUNERAL HOMES:

Abraham L. Green & Son : 88 Beach Road Fairfield, CT 06824 (203) 255-8993, Nationwide (888) 256-8993. Email: info@greensfuneralhome.com

SYNAGOGUES based on research by Cohen and Goldfarb and the Hale Collection for FAIRFIELD AND LITCHFIELD COUNTIES: Update of Volume 6 of the Hale Collection has Beth Alom Cemetery (1900-1985). Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, CT 07064, who worked with Edward Cohen, submitted the following. From Edward Cohen & Lewis Goldfarb Collection:

Ahavath Achim : (Orthodox) (203) 372-6529
Beth El : (Conservative) (203) 374-5544
Congregation B'nai Israel : (Bridgeport) (203) 336-1858
Congregation Rodeph Sholom : (Bridgeport)(203) 334-0159
Eintract Sick Benefit Society Cemetery : Shepard Street, off Kings Highway. Records at Green's Funeral Home, (203) 334-8893. Source: Vivian E. Shore Zelvin vzelvin@banet.net
Loyalty Lodge, (203) 452-1221
Hebrew Sick Benefit (203) 452-1221
Farband (203) 452-1221
Workmen's Circle (203) 373-9662
Bikur Cholim (203) 336-2272

FARMINGTON: see AVON

GEORGETOWN:
Temple B'nai Chaim, Reform, 544-8695

GREENWICH:
Temple Sholom, Conservative, 869-7191
SYNAGOGUES based on research by Cohen and Goldfarb and the Hale Collection for FAIRFIELD, HARTFORD AND LITCHFIELD COUNTIES: Update of Volume 6 of the Hale Collection has Beth Alom Cemetery (1900-1985). Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, CT 07064, who worked with Edward Cohen, submitted the following. If there is a number under the number of graves column they have found those cemeteries. The date shows when they completed that cemetery. Cemetery from Edward Cohen & Lewis Goldfarb Collection.

Jewish Cemetery : Memory Lane

GLENVILLE (GREENWICH):

Riverside Cemetery : Memory Lane (a winding residential street.) Drive about a mile to the end, which is the cemetery entrance. This very hilly site with lots of trees and shaded sites is adjacent to the Round Hill Country Club.
Some graves date from the 20's, with around 2,000-2,500 sites used. Sections: Temple Shalom, Greenwich CT; Temple Israel, White Plains NY; Jewish Center, New Rochelle, NY; Holocaust Memorial Park.

GROTON:

Beth-El Cemetery : source: Jim Rappaport; e-mail:

HAMDEN:
BOOK: Congregation Mishkan Israel Records, 1843- [ongoing]. Description: 31 linear ft. (10,626 items). Notes: Reform congregation organized 1840 in New Haven, Conn.; in 1960 moved to Hamden, Conn. ...; deeds, financial records, and other cemetery records; Some of the early records are in German. Gift of Board of Trustees, Congregation Miskhan Israel, Marc A. Wallman, president, 1984. Finding aid in the repository. Location: New Haven Colony Historical Society Library (Conn.) (MSS #B54). Control No.: DCLV92-A583 [December 2000]

Beth El-Keser Israel Cemetery : {10620}. The cemetery draws from the Greater New Haven Metropolitan Area. Alan H. Gelbert, (AGelbert@aol.com ) Secretary/Treasurer of Beth El-Keser Israel Cemetery Assn. Inc., 85 Harrison Street, New Haven, CT. 06515, (203/389-2108) may have more information. Beth El and Keser Israel Congregations merged to form Beth El-Keser Israel Congregation but each had its own cemetery. Beth-El-Keser Israel Cemetery Association, Inc manages the merged congregation cemetery. Beth El, a formerly Orthodox congregation called B'nai Israel, dates from the turn of the century. When their building was razed by redevelopment, the congregation relocated to a different section of New Haven and became Conservative. Some members, who wanted to remain Orthodox, merged with another Orthodox congregation, retaining the B'nai Israel name. The old B'nai Israel Cemetery, however, is part of Beth El's cemetery, located on Warner St. Members chose plots in either cemetery. Plots also are sold to Jewish non-members. Cemetery burials are indexed and computerized. Burial cards have NONE of the following information biographical data: next-of-kin info, funeral director info, or health dept. information. Cemetery Hours: always open. Flower Policy: permitted but plantings with approval. The active cemetery is not land-marked and has no regular caretaker. The Jewish community that uses this cemetery is Orthodox and Conservative. The urban flat land, separate but near other cemeteries, is marked by a sign in English. The cemetery is reached by turning directly off a public road with access open to all. A continuous fence and a gate that does not lock surround the cemetery. The cemetery is not divided into special sections. The oldest gravestone dates from 1892. Inscriptions on tombstones are in English and Hebrew. Adjacent properties are commercial/industrial and residential. The cemetery has been vandalized occasionally in the last ten years. Current Care: paid perpetual care. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Security (uncontrolled access) and weather erosion are a slight threat. Persons completing this survey: Alan Gelbert Secretary/Treasurer of Beth El-Keser Israel Cemetery Assn. Inc. at AGelbert@aol.com and David Sagerman , President, Beth El - Keser Israel Cemetery Assoc. Inc. at DAVDORSAGERMAN@webtv.net on April 28, 1997. The following documentation was used: synagogue records, recently revised and computerized.
UPDATE: Source for information about Congregation Beth El–Keser Israel, contact Rabbi Jon-Jay Tilsen, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel, 85 Harrison Street at Whalley Avenue, New Haven CT 06515-1724, 203.389.2108 x10, Fax 203.389.5899 http://www.beki.org. email: jjtilsen@beki.org. [July 2002]
B'nai Jacob Cemetery : Wintergreen Ave; source: Jim Rappaport, jrapp@hermesnet.net
B'nai Sholom : 25 Alling St. Hamden
Highwood Cemetery : This is the Alling St. Bnai Sholom cemetery above.
Temple Beth Sholom : 25 Alling St. Hamden

HARTFORD::
Reference: Jewish Cemeteries of Hartford, Connecticut: The Cohen/Goldfarb Collection, Vol. 1 by Edward A. Cohen and Lewis Goldfarb, published in 1995 by Heritage Books, Inc.

Cedar Hill Cemetery : temple memorial list supplied by Leonard Spialter, spialterr@about.com
John Hay Memorial Park : Garden St. Source: Flora Gursky; e-mail: gurskyh@erols.com
Loyalty Cemetery : Hartford County, Congregation Beth Israel 02309 Fairfield County, #02197 in Cemeteries of the US by Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; Source: Al Rosenfield, Columbus OH; e-mail: arosen@ee.net.

Based on Hale Collection and research by Edward A Cohen, 25 Stoneham Drive, West Hartford, CT 06117 (203) 523-5521 (Shomer Shabbos: Please do not call on Friday nights or Saturdays) and by Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, CT 07064:
Hartford Jewish Cemetery Inscriptions Index, Total 6790:

Beth Ahm	{10005}	Windsor	Palisado Avenue	93	11/92	-1968
Beth Alom	.	New Britain	Allen Street	.	.	-1897
Beth El	{10008}	Avon	Jackson Street	354	5/93	-1958
Beth Jacob	{10089}	West Hartford	Hurlburt Street	157	11/92	-1922
Beth David	{10084}	Wethersfield	Berlin Turnpike	242	9/92	-1951
Beth Hillel	{10076}	South Windsor	Edith Street	39	1/93	-1974
Beth Hillel	{10016}	East Granby	Wolcott Rd	246	1/31	-1962
Beth Israel	{10007}	Avon	Jackson Street	25	5/46	-1987b>
Beth Israel	{10009}	Bristol	Lakeside Rd	34	1/93	-1954
Beth Mishkin	.	New Britain	Chapman Street	12	1985	-1891
Beth Shalom	{10068}	Manchester	Autumn Street	177	9/92	-1954
Beth Tefilah/B'nai Shalom	{10086}	Wethersfield	Berlin Turnpike	58	9/92	-1971
Cutler Family Plot	{10091}	West Hartford	Hurlburt Street	36	11/92	-1942
Emanuel	{10082}	Wethersfield	Berlin Turnpike	.	5/46	1840
Fairview Cemetery	{10090}	West Hartford	Pleasant Street	33	11/92	-1934
Farmington Valley	.	Avon	Mountainview Dr	24	5/93	-1983
Hartford Mutual	{10014}	East Granby	Wolcott Rd	272	4/93	-1973
Kenig Family Plot	{10092}	West Hartford	Hurlburt Street	8	11/92	-1949
Knesseth Israel	{10017}	Ellington	Maple Street	465	1/93	-1910
Piater Verein	{10085}	Wethersfield	Berlin Turnpike	318	9/92	1935
Teferes Israel	{10088}	West Hartford	Hilcrest Ave	377	11/92	-1900
Teferes Israel	{10015}	East Granby	Wolcott Rd	6	1/31	-1989
Temple Beth Torah	{10087}	Wethersfield	Berlin Turnpike	56	9/92	-1972
Temple Sinai	{10074}	Newington	West Hartford Rd	56	11/92	-1980
United Synagogues	{10083}	Wethersfield	Berlin Turnpike	76	9/92	-1928

Hartford County (Burial Societies Included) Cemetery:

Cemetery	Number	Affiliation	Town	Telephone	Location
Aaron Association	H17	Land Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Adas Israel	H37,H63	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Agudas Achim	H15,H35	Orthodox	West Hartford	233-4241	Hartford
Albany Ave Jew Com	H58	Cdis Beth David	.	236-1241	Hartford
All Jews	H49	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Am Segulah	Homo	.	West Hartford	676-9245	None
Ateres Israel	H20,h45,h46	.	Merg United Synagogue	236-3338	Hartford
Austrian Hebrew	H3,H48	.	Merg United Synagogue	236-3338	Hartford
Bess Israel	H23	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Beth Ahm	12	Conservative	Windsor	688-9989	Windsor
Beth David	H14,h25,h58 1,4,20	Orthodox	West Hartford	236-1241	Wethersfield
Beth El	H27	Conservative	West Hartford	233-9696	Hartford, Avon
Beth Hillel	21	Conservative	Bloomfield	242-5561	Hartford, East Granby
Beth Hillel	27	Reform	So Windsor	644-8466	So Windsor
Beth Israel	18	Conservative	Bristol	585-7005	Bristol
Beth Israel	H7 15	Reform	West Hartford	233-8215	Hartford, Avon
Beth Jacob	10	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	West Hartford
Beth Midrash Hagadol	H62,H44	Merg United Synagogue	.	236-3338	Hartford
Beth Shalom	13	Conservative	Manchester	643-9563	Manchester
Beth Tefilah	6	Conservative	East Hartford	569-0670	Wethersfield
Beth Torah	7	Conservative	Wethersfield	529-2410	Wethersfield
B'nai Israel	25,26	Conservative	New Britain	224-0479	New Britain
B'nai Israel	27	Conservative	Vernon	871-1818	So Windsor
B'nai Shalom	6	Conservative	Newington	667-0826	Wethersfield
Brahilover Benev.	H26	Land Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Capitol City Ldg	H30	.	Dis Federation	232-4483	Hartford
Chabad	.	Chasidic	West Hartford	232-1116	None
Chesed Shel Emes	H47	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Chevra Lomdai Mishnay	H14	Mrg Beth David	.	236-1241	Hartford
Cutler Family Plot	8	Fam Federation	.	232-4483	West Hartford
Dreyfus Lodge	H34	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Emanuel	2	Conservative	West Hartford	236-1275	Wethersfield
Fairview Cemetery	11	?	?	?	West Hartford
Farband	H22	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Farmington Valley	17	Reform	Simsbury	658-1075	Avon
First Austrian	H3,H48	Merg United Synagogue	.	236-3338	Hartford
First Ludmir	H18,H60	Land Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Hartford City Lodge	H33,H66	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Hartford Lodge	H36	Dis Federation		232-4483	Hartford
Hartford Mutual	H28,h45, 19	Land Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford, East Granby
Hartford Sick Ben Assn.	H59,H31	Land Federation	.	528-1286	Hartford
Hebrew Merchants	H16,H46	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Hope of Zion	H19	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Htfd Hebrew Ben Assn.	H40	land Federation	.	232-4483	.
John Hay Lodge	H24	Mas Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford
Kehilat Chaverim	.	Chaverim	West Hartford	236-0238	None
Kenig Family Plot	9	Family	.	.	West Hartford
Knesseth Israel	22	Orthodox	Ellington	875-6491	Ellington
Knesseth Israel	.	Mrg	West Hartford	236-3338	Hartford
Kol Havarim	.	Reform	Glastonbury	633-3966	None
Moses Montiferi Ldg	H32	Dis Federation	.	232-4483	Hartford>
Ohavei Shalom	.	Chaverim	West Hartford	521-7205	None

Note: 2 references to Congregation Beth Israel at (AJA) American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488; phone (513) 221-1875
Constitution and by-laws with rules and regulations relating to the cemetery at Zion Hill . 1906. Small Collections;
Congregation Beth Israel Cemetery rules and regulations with manuscript revisions; constitution and by-laws of the Temple Sisterhood; Sisterhood Annual and Sisterhood Policy Sheet . 1918, 1925 and 1929, 1926-1927 and 1945. Small Collections

LITCHFIELD County:
Based on research and the Hale Collection: Update of Volume 6 of the Hale Collection has Beth Alom Cemetery (1900-1985). Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, CT 07064, who worked with Edward Cohen, submitted the following. If there is a number under the number of graves column they have found those cemeteries. The date shows when they completed that cemetery. Cemetery from Edward Cohen & Lewis Goldfarb Collection: Graves Completed: 300

Beth El Cemetery : Torrington Winsted Road; 275 graves
Morris Cemetery : Morris Town Center; 25 graves
Judea Cemetery : Washington Judea Cemetery Road

MADISON:
Beth Tikvah uses Beaver Brook Cemetery in Clinton, CT. Source: Jim Rappaport [22 January 2001]

MANSFIELD:

B'nai Israel Cemetery : owned by B'nai Israel Congregation, Willimantic. Source: Gertrude Singer Ogushwitz: gsogush@sbcglobal.net

MERIDEN:

Hebrew Cemetery of Temple B'nai Abraham : With probably over 250-300 gravesites located here, they were preparing to computerize their burials in 1998. Source: Ruth Borsuk, Cemetery Committee Chair, Temple B'nai Abraham, 127 East Main Street, Meriden, CT 06450 first source: Gregory Brezicki; e-mail: Brez.2@worldnet.att.net

MIDDLESEX County:
Based on research and the Hale Collection: Update of Volume 6 of the Hale Collection has Beth Alom Cemetery (1900-1985). The following was submitted by Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, Ct 07064 who worked with Edward Cohen. If there is a number under the number of graves column they have found those cemeteries. The date shows when they completed that cemetery. Cemetery from Edward Cohen & Lewis Goldfarb Collection:

50	Jewish Cemetery	.	Clinton	?	.	.
.	Wesleyan	.	B'n Middletown	347-9411	.	.
3	Adath Israel	Conservative	Middletown	346-4709	.	.
46	Indian Hill	.	Middletown	Washington St	173 5/93	{10072}
47	Adath Isreal	Middletown	Pine Street	.	559 5/93	.
32	Portland Jewish	Portland	Williams Street	.	9 3/93	{10075}
.	.	.	.	.	.	Total: 741

MILFORD:
Temple Sholom, See United Jewish Center, Reform & Traditional, 354-0273

MONROE:
Shirei Shalom: Reconstructionist, 426-9730

MORRIS:

Workman Circle : Source: James Rappaport; - data from Hartfort Courant. UPDATE: Workmans Circle Cemetery as previously noted is marked as Far Band Cemetery. [22 January 2001]

MONTVILLE:
New London Independent Lodge is on Chesterfield Road. Loffingwell Road cemetery is fenced in but not marked. Source: Jim Rappaport [22 January 2001]

NEW BRITAIN:
Based on research and the Hale Collection: Update of Volume 6 of the Hale Collection has Beth Alom Cemetery (1900-1985). Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, CT 07064 who worked with Edward Cohen, submitted the following. If there is a number under the number of graves column they have found those cemeteries. The date shows when they completed that cemetery. Cemetery from Edward Cohen & Lewis Goldfarb Collection

#	Name	Address	Month/ Grave Completed	Index
H15	Agudas Achim Cemetery (1924)	Cleveland Ave Ext	410 5/92	{10019}
H20	Ateres Israel (Barbour) (1923)	Cleveland Ave Ext	193 1/23	{10024}
H23	Bess Israel (1929)	Cleveland Ave Ext	229 1/23	{10027}
H22	Farband Labor Zionists (1927)	Cleveland Ave Ext	194 1/23	{10026}
H18	First Ludmir Benevolent (1926)	Cleveland Ave Ext	183 5/92	{10022}
H19	Hope of Zion Cemetery (1924)	Cleveland Ave Ext	64 1/23	{10023}
H21	Workmen's Circle No 326, (1923) now called Hillel Cemetery	Cleveland Ave Ext	92 1/23	{10025}
H61	Young Israel Cemetery	Cleveland Ave Ext	35 1/23	{10061}
H27	Beth El Cemetery (1933)	Cleveland Avenue	153 5/92	{10031}
H26	Brahilover Benevelent (1931)	Cleveland Avenue	125 1/92	{10030}
H29	Jewish War Veterans B'nai Yisrael	Cleveland Avenue	128 5/92	{10033}
H17	Aaron Association Cemetery (1929)	Garden Street	97 12/91	{10021}
H59	Hartford Sick Benefit Assn.	Garden Street	67 5/92	{10059}
H16	Hebrew Merchants Protective (1923)	Garden Street	297 12/91	{10020}
H58	Albany Jewish Comm Center	Garden Street	248 1/23	{10058}
H14	Chevry Lomday Meshnayes (Teferes) (1921)	Garden Street	398 12/91	{10018}
H28	Hartford Mutual & Workers Circle #15	Garden Street	574 1/92	{10032}
H24	John Hay Memorial Park (1949)	Garden Street	471 5/92	{10028}
H25	Teferes Israel Cemetery (1942)	Garden Street	24 1/23	{10029}
H54	Young Friends Progressive Assoc.	Garden Street	106 1/23	{10055}
H45	Ateres Israel (Hartford Mutual Soc. Cem.)	Mahl Avenue	124 3/46	{10050}
H46	Ateres Israel (Hartford Peddlers Lodge	Mahl Avenue	237 3/46	{10051}
H44	Beth Midrash Hagadol Cemetery	Mahl Avenue	262 3/46	{10049}
H47	Hartford Free Burial Assn Cem. Lodge 1913	Mahl Avenue	328 3/46	{10052}
H41	Workers Circle #610 Cemetery	Mahl Avenue	127 3/46	{10046}
H43	Workmens Circle #184 Cemetery	Mahl Avenue	200 3/46	{10048}
H42	Workmens Circle Branch 936 Cemetery	Mahl Avenue	100 3/46	{10047}
H03	Old North Cemetery; same as North Main Street Cemetery	Main St.	25 3/46	{10034}
H48	Austrian Hebrew Cong. at Old North Cemetery	No Main Street	276 3/46	{10053}
H63	Ados Israel	Tower Avenue	325 5/92	{10063}
H66	Hartford City Lodge	Tower Avenue	169 3/46	{10066}
H55	Jonathan Welfare Cemetery	Tower Avenue	364 5/92	{10056}
H65	Sharai Torah Cemetery (1942)	Tower Avenue	103 5/92	{10065}
H64	Tikvoh Chadoshah (1948)	Tower Avenue	153 5/92	{10064}
H57	Wolkowysker Cemetery Assn.	Tower Avenue	203 5/92	{10057}
H60	Young Ludmir Benevolent	Tower Avenue	90 1/46	{10060}
H62	Beth Midrash Hagadol (United)	Waverly Street	116 1/23	{10062}
H07	Beth Israel Cemetery (1740)	Zion Hill	1615 2/23	{10067}
H37	Adas Israel Cemetery	Zion Street	640 7/92	{10042}
H35	Agudater Achim Cemetery Assoc.	Zion Street	291 7/92	{10040}
H49	All Jews Cemetery	Zion Street	224 3/46	{10054}
H30	Capitol City Lodge Cemetery	Zion Street	419 3/46	{10035}
H34	Dreyfus Lodge Cemetery	Zion Street	135 3/46	{10039}
H33	Hartford City Lodge Cemetery	Zion Street	370 7/92	{10038}
H40	Hartford Hebrew Benefit Assn. Cemetery	Zion Street	107 7/92	{10045}
H36	Hartford Lodge #108 Sons of Benjamin	Zion Street	135 7/92	{10041}
H31	Hartford Workingmen's S B Cemetery	Zion Street	349 3/46	{10036}
H32	Moses Montifner Lodge Cemetery	Zion Street	369 3/46	{10037}
H39	Rothchilds' Plot Cemetery	Zion Street	17 7/92	{10044}
H38	Sharee Torah Lodge	Zion Street	215 7/92	{10043}
Total: 12176

NEW HAVEN:
Area Code: 203. Cong. Beth El - Keser Israel of New Haven, CT. owns 3 cemeteries:

Beth El-formerly B'nai Israel : {10837} on Warner St. in Hamden
Beth El : on Warner St. in Hamden {10620} same location as above
Farwell : the cemetery of former Temple Keser Israel {10836} in Allingtown CT.
Whalley/Fitch/Jewell Cemetery : Ahavas Shalom Section. The synagogue (1921-1969) was at 30 White St. Burials from this temple were near the Warshawer Relief Society plots (Jewell St. address in New Haven). Supposedly the last 6 rows nearest the wall (closest to Fitch St.) are from Ahavis Shalom. Supposedly a Yartzheit tablet for Ahavis Shalom exists at the Young Israel Synagogue at 292 Norton St., New Haven. There is no sign/marker for Ahavis Shalom burials in the cemetery. The graves are just a very small part of the large cemetery The funeral home has no knowledge. source: Sheryl Spector
Chevra B'nai Israel Cemetery : {10837} ["This may not be correct": Arline Sachs.] This is also called the Adas Israel Cemetery : 52 Jewell St
Beaverdale Memorial Park : 90 Pine Rock Ave
B'nai Jacob Memorial Park : (old) 30 Jewell St
B'nai Jacob Memorial Park : (new) Wintergreen
Columbus Lodge Cemetery : 40 Jewell St
Congregation Beth Israel Cemetery : 46 Jewell St
Congregation B'nai Sholom Cemetery : 25-33 Alling
Congregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery : Whalley Ave near Jewell. Congregation Mishkan Israel Records, 1843- [ongoing]. Description: 31 linear ft. (10,626 items). Notes: Reform congregation organized 1840 in New Haven, Conn.; in 1960 moved to Hamden, Conn. ...; deeds, financial records, and other cemetery records; Some of the early records are in German. Gift of Board of Trustees, Congregation Miskhan Israel, Marc A. Wallman, president, 1984. Finding aid in the repository. Location: New Haven Colony Historical Society Library (Conn.) (MSS #B54). Control No.: DCLV92-A583 [December 2000]
Herzl Lodge Cemetery : 24 Jewell St
Independent Connecticut Lodge #1 : 32 Jewell St
Independent Connecticut Lodge #2 :
Independent Connecticut Lodge #3 :
Independent Vilner Lodge : 46 Jewell St
Jacobs Hyman Lodge : (now Mt. Sinai Memorial Park): 60 Jewell St
Mount Sinai Memorial Park : 58 Jewell St
Order Beth Abraham Connecticut Lodge Cemetery : 20 Jewell St
United Israel Society : 28 Jewell St., now known as United Israel Cemetery
Warner Street Cemetery : source: Sheryl Spector
Warshaver Relief Society : Jewell St. source: Flora Gursky; e-mail: gurskyh@erols.com

NEW HAVEN COUNTY:
Based on research and the Hale Collection: Update of Volume 6 of the Hale Collection has Beth Alom Cemetery (1900-1985). Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, CT 07064 who worked with Edward Cohen, submitted the following. If there is a number under the number of graves column they have found those cemeteries. The date shows when they completed that cemetery. Cemetery from Edward Cohen & Lewis Goldfarb Collection.

# Hartford Cemetery Town Address Graves Completed - Month Index
45 Beth El Waterbury Bucks Hill Rd 100 3/31
Bikar B'nai Abraham East Haven Brockett Place
61 B'nai Israel Hamden 55 Warner Street
94 B'nai Jacob New Haven 30 Jewell Street {10182}
60 B'nai Sholom Hamden 25 Allen Street*
42 Brass City Waterbury Frost Road 950 3/31 {10081}
Cong Shevath Achim East Haven Brockett Place
98 Congr Beth Israel New Haven 46 Jewell Street {10186}
Congr Keser Israel West Haven Farwell Avenue
40 Congr Sharai Israel Waterbury Frost Road 283 4/93 {10079}
41 Farband Waterbury Frost Road 53 3/31 {10080}
99 Farband Labor Zionist New Haven 65 Fitch Street
43 Hebrew Benefit Assoc. Waterbury Frost Road 500 3/31 {10226}
Hebrew Free Burial Assoc East Haven Brockett Place
97 Herzl {10185} New Haven Jewell Street
Indep Adas Israel New Haven 52 Jewell Street {10189}
93 Indep Israel Society New Haven Jewell Street {10191?}
95 Indep Lodge #1 New Haven 32 Jewell Street {10183}
96 Indep Lodge #2 New Haven 32 Jewell Street {10184}
Indep New Haven Lodge East Haven Brockett Place
Indep Rambam Lodge East Haven Brockett Place
Indep Wilner Lodge New Haven Jewell Street {10187}
62 Jewish Cemetery East Haven Brockett Place
64 Jewish Cemetery Orange 833 Derby Avenue
38 Malche Tzedek Waterbury Plank Rd 225 7/93
34 Meriden Hebrew Meriden Steuben St 852 7/93 {10071}
92 Mishkin Israel New Haven 639 Whalley Avenue {10181}
Mt Sinai Memorial Park New Haven 58 Jewell Street {10190}
Shara Torah Cemetery or Congregation Sinai West Haven Farwell Avenue
44 Star Lodge Waterbury Frost Road 356 3/31
Warshaver Relief Soc. New Haven Jewell Street {10188}
39 Workers Circle Waterbury Frost Road 426 7/93 {10078}
63 Workmen's Circle* West Haven Farwell Avenue

NORWICH:
Jewish Fraternal and Sons of Joseph are on Lois Street. Hebrew Cemeteries 1 and 2 are on Route 12 in Preston. 3 & 4 are on Middle Road in Preston. Source: Jim Rappaport [22 January 2001]

PORTLAND:
http://www.portlandct.org/historic/march00.htm : "Just over the brow of the hill on William Street, 3/10 mile east of the driveway for the Swedish Lutheran Cemetery, is Portland's tiny Jewish cemetery. ...This was a cemetery of babies! ...there was a small but thriving Jewish community in Portland in the 1890s. The plaque at the little cemetery reads, 'Here lie those of Jewish faith who came here from eastern Europe to seek employment in the Eastern Tinware Co. (organized in 1888) and to begin a new life. May their souls rest in peace.'" [January 2001].

STAMFORD:

Memorial Park : Temple Sinai uses section of Memorial Park on Oaklawn Ave. Source: Jim Rappaport [22 January 2001]

TORRINGTON:
"With due respect to Rabbi Edward Cohen's work, the cemetery in Torrington, CT (part of Litchfield County) is called "Sons of Jacob Cemetery," Winsted Road, Torrington, CT, an independent organization affiliated with Beth El Synagogue, 124 Litchfield St., Torrington, CT 06790, (860) 482-8263. I would be happy to provide whatever other information you need." Source: Joyce Peck at Joycekp@webtv.net . [May 2001]

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