B'nai Jeshurun: 1919 Jewish population was 33.
See: "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United
States," pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September
25,1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; Volume 21. Edited by Harry
Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee. Jewish Cemetery:
p 04551; Cemeteries of the US Deborah M. Burek, ed.
Detroit MI: Gale Research Int., 1994. ISBN 0-8103-9245-3. Source:
Al Rosenfield, arosen@ee.net [September 2005]
Greenhill Cemetery; Constitution and by-laws, 1874,
minutes, Nov. 8, 1875-Oct. 8, 1885; Oct. 23, 1912-Dec. 31, 1919;
and Feb. 11, 1920-Jan. 13, 1931, of the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent
Society, Columbia City, Indiana; list of those buried in the
Columbia City Jewish Cemetery, prepared July 1973; Microfilm No.
20. Source: AJA. American
Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488.
513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu List of burials in
Jewish cemeteries. n.d.-1973. Vital Statistics file. UPDATE:
Greenhill cemetery, in Columbia City, is an odd shaped section of
land bounded on the north by East Ellsworth Street, the west by
what was the Blue Bell Jean factory and the south by the Blue
River and the Blue River Greenway. It is composed of six separate
sections: Brown, Masonic, Linvill, Ellabrand, Catholic, and
though a block or so to the East, the Jewish. http://genealogy.whitleynet.org/cem16.htm has
burial list. [September 2005]
EVANSVILLE:Vanderburgh County - see also
Henderson, Kentucky
http://www.rootsweb.com/~invander/vand.htm has
general Vanderburgh County information.
http://www.indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0743.html#HISTORICAL has
cemetery and Jewish history. [September 2005]
1919 Jewish population was 1,500. Source from Alan Hirschfeld: "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States," pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25,1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; Volume 21. Edited by Harry Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee.
Temple Adath Israel, http://www.templeabi.org/: 8440
Newburgh Rd., Evansville, IN 47715 or P.O. Box 5265, Evansville,
IN 47716-5265 (812) 477-1577, email: tabi@evansville.net [September
2005]
Congregation B'nai Israel
Mt. Carmel Jewish Cemetery, First Avenue,
7/10 miles North of Mill Road
Evansville, Center Township, Vanderburgh County, IN. Reference:
Lantaff, Carol A. and Trapp, Glenda K. Cemetery Records of
Vanderburgh County, Indiana Volume 2. Owensboro, Ky.:
Cook-McDowell Publications, 1986.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~invander/cemeteries/mt_carmel/index.htm has
photos. [September 2005]
Mt. Sinai: Rodenberg Road, Perry Township,
Vanderburgh County, IN.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~invander/cemeteries/mt_sinai/index.htm has
photos. Reference: Lantaff, Carol A. and Trapp, Glenda K.
Cemetery Records of Vanderburgh County, Indiana Volume 2.
Owensboro, Ky.: Cook-McDowell Publications, 1986.
Lindenwood Cemetery, Achduth Vashalom
Congregation Section: {10941} 2324 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN
46808; 1-219-432-4542. Founded in 1848 as a Chevra Kaddisha, the
cemetery dates back almost that far. Moved to its present site in
the 1860's, Achduth Vashalom is medium-size but active Reform
congregation of about 275 families. They maintain the cemetery
and its records that may be computerized. Began as an Orthodox
synagogue, they became one of the founding congregations of the
Reform Movement. Many small Jewish cemeteries throughout this
area are remnants of "once upon a time" Jewish communities. The
county maintains them with a dozen or so Jewish graves in them.
Temple: Achduth Vesholom Congregation, 5200 Old Mill Road, Fort
Wayne, IN 46807; phone: 219-744-4245;fax: 219-744-4246; e-mail:
CAVtemple@aol.com. Rabbi:
Sandford Kopnick. Source: Richard B. Safran, Rabbi Emeritus.
UPDATE: http://www.friendsofallencounty.org/fwacdb.php has
burials. [September 2005]
Orthodox Cemetery: AKA Fort Wayne Jewish
Cemetery. Located on the Old Decatur Road, between Paulding
and Tillman Roads. Private. Founded 1912. Basically Russian Jews.
There is a section of Lindenwood Cemetery that has a Jewish
section, basically German Jews. [September 2005]
Congregation Sharis Israel Cemetery: {10162} (AJA). American Jewish Archives, 3101
Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488. 513-221-1875 (tel);
513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu): List of burials in
congregation's cemetery and newspaper articles concerning
congregation's building and rabbi. 1899-1977. Vital Statistics
File and List of burials in Jewish cemeteries. 1888-1977. Vital
Statistics file http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/97-2.htm - link no longer available "Decline in an Age of Expansion:
Disappearing Jewish Communities in the Era of Mass Migration"
by Lee Shai Weissbach mentions Goshen. [January 2001]
Kneseth Israel Cemetery: Dating from about 1925, the
grave sites remain evenly spaced, with no apparent threats of
overcrowding. Vandals: no threaten, even with no visible
caretaker. The site is well maintained. With time comes wind,
rain and snow, and on the tombstones, a once sharply engraved
word here, a date there, are beginning to vanish into the flat,
polished surfaces. The cemetery belongs to Congregation Beth
Israel and is being indexed by three temple members and the
Indiana JGS. UPDATE: AKA Hammond Jewish Cemetery. 1924.
http://www.lincolnnet.net/ijgs/southtown.htm has
cemetery description, burial listing recording information, and
photo.[September 2005]
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation CemeteryNorth (new): section dating from mid-1990s. New portion
is actually in Clay County, north of Carmel.
LAFAYETTE:Tippecanoe County
http://www.rootsweb.com/~intippec/ has
general Tippecanoe County information. [September 2005] On the Banks of the Wabash, Jewish Life in
Greater Lafayette, Indiana, 1840-1960, August 1996, Vol. 31,
pp. 1--45, Indiana Jewish History. http://ijhs.org/board.html [September
2005]
Temple Israel, 620 Cumberland Ave, West Lafayette, 765-463-3455
Contact: temple@iquest.net Historic Site:
http://www.isjm.org/Buildings/records/BR125.htm.
Oldest known building in Indiana originally built for use by a
Jewish congregation. Site is now a church. [September 2005]
Ahvas Achim Congregation
Sons of Abraham http://www.soalafayette.org 663
N 7th St. [September 2005]
Jewish Cemetery:
Sons of Abraham Cemetery: http://www.soalafayette.org/SHULCEMETERYMAP050121.pdf has
cemetery map with names. Est. 1840. South part of Jewish
Cemetery; fenced. Jewish cemetery: Montefiore & 3rd Sts.
1850, p. 167, Postal & Koppman. Jewish Tourist's Guide to
U.S. Phila., PA: Jewish Publ. Society, 1954. 2 "cemeteries"
in "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United
States," pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September
25,1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; Volume 21. Edited by Harry
Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee. [September
2005]
B'nai Zion Cemetery: See:
AJA. American Jewish
Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488.
513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu for List of burials in
Jewish cemeteries; 1854-1977. Vital Statistics file and Notes on
the history of the Jewish congregation and cemetery. 1971.
Histories file http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/97-2.htm - link no longer available "Decline in an Age of Expansion:
Disappearing Jewish Communities in the Era of Mass Migration"
by Lee Shai Weissbach mentions La Porte. [January 2001]
UPDATE: Enter through Patton Cemetery.
B'nai Zion is behind Patton Cemetery. http://www.rootsweb.com/~inlpccem/cemeteries/zion.htm has
photos and burial list. Many stones are unreadable and not
included or written in Hebrew. [September 2005]
Oak Park Cemetery: See publication of the Indiana
Jewish Historical Society, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Jan 1978,
description by Lois Fields Schwartz. A thriving Jewish community
in the 1850s to early 1900s, a highway sign nearby reads "Old
Historic Jewish Community". Ligonier has taken over the old
synagogue, preserved it, and made it into a community historic
site. To provide a cemetery for Jewish dead, Ligonier's Oak Park
Cemetery sold a section of land to the Jewish community in the
1880s, now containing 187 graves and set apart for the rest of
the cemetery by gravel paths. Dominating the Jewish section are
the mausoleums of Meyer Jacobs and Jacob Strauss. In 1912, the
Cemetery Association (independent of the Temple) was deeded the
land by the congregation. $15,000 was raised by the sale of plots
of land for future care of the burials. Early burials were in the
order of the date of death, but after 1912, interments were made
in family plots. The Ochs (NY Times) family may are buried
there. See AJA. American
Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488.
513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax).
E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu for List of the Jews
buried in the Jewish cemetery, as of July 1963, Miscellaneous
file. http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/97-2.htm
has photo.
[September 2005] http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/97-2.htm - link no longer available "Decline in an Age of Expansion:
Disappearing Jewish Communities in the Era of Mass Migration"
by Lee Shai Weissbach mentions Ligonier.
MADISON Jefferson County
http://www.ingenweb.net/jefferson/index.htm
/ has general Jefferson County information. [September
2005]
Temple Israel Congregation
1919 Jewish population was 70. Source from Alan Hirschfeld:
"Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States,"
pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25,1919
to Sept. 12, 1920; Volume 21. Edited by Harry Schneiderman
for the American Jewish Committee.
"In Madison, Indiana, the Jews organized Adas Israel in 1853
and in 1855 they dedicated a synagogue on the second floor of a
commercial building owned by the community's purveyor of kosher
meat. Shortly thereafter, the congregation purchased land for a
cemetery and employed as the community's first teacher Bernard
Felsenthal, later to be a leading Reform rabbi in Chicago and an
important figure in national Jewish life." [Source: http://www.huc.edu/aja/97-2.htm]
Possibly at AJA. American
Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488.
513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu
Cemetery deed. Aug. 9, 1855 Rare Documents file and
Documents file
List of burials in Jewish cemeteries. 1855-1975. Vital
Statistics file
Adath Israel Cemetery: Jefferson County
Jewish-{10770}. From "Cemetery Records of Jefferson County,
Indiana", compiled by John Paul Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution which was typed by Mary Hill - 1941. Names
are shown on the web at
http://www.myindianahome.net/gen/jeff/records/cemetery/jewish.html:
burial listings from "Cemetery Records of Jefferson County,
Indiana", compiled by John Paul Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution which was typed by Mary Hill - 1941. [January
2001] http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/97-2.htm
"Decline in an Age of Expansion: Disappearing Jewish Communities
in the Era of Mass Migration" by Lee Shai Weissbach mentions
Madison. [January 2001]
Springdale Cemetery: 600 West 5th St., Madison, 47250
(812) 265-3915. See http://www.huc.edu/aja/97-2.htm]
Possibly at AJA. American
Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488.
513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu for List of Jews
buried in Springdale Cemetery. 1863-1976. Vital Statistics file.
UPDATE:
http://www.myindianahome.net/gen/jeff/records/cemetery/sdindex.html has
photo. [September 2005] http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/97-2.htm - link no longer available "Decline in an Age of Expansion:
Disappearing Jewish Communities in the Era of Mass Migration" by Lee Shai Weissbach mentions Madison. [January 2001]
Estates of Serenity: {10863} Jewish section of the cemetery in Marion. For assistance or information, contact Tony Maidenberg (765-662-3175 or 765-662-9868) or David Goldsmith (765-664-1456) or by e-mail, contact David Maidenberg maidenberg@iquest.net. Directions to the Estates of Serenity in Marion: * From the Courthouse Square in downtown Marion, take 4th Street, east (State Road 18-east), until you cross the river. * After crossing the bridge over the river, you will come to a light at Pennsylvania Street. Turn right (south). * Take Pennsylvania Street, south, to the intersection with Lincoln Blvd. * Continue straight - noting that the street name becomes Lincoln Blvd. (Part of the cemetery is on your left). * Go to the first left (Central Avenue), which is immediately before the RR tracks. Turn left onto Central.
* Angle to the left until one of the cemetery lanes crosses Central. Turn right into that section of the cemetery. * Stay to the right following the drive in a semi-circle, until you are parallel to Central Avenue. Continue straight a hundred yards or so. The small Jewish section will be on the
right, near the drive you are on.
UPDATE: AKA: I.O.O.F.
Cemetery / Friends / Boots.
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/in/grant/cemetery/marioof.txt?o_xid=0026656834&o_lid=0026656834&o_xt=8913.
http://www.maidenberg.com/david/cemetery.html has
burial list. http://www.maidenberg.com/david/memorial.html has
Temple Sinai Memorial list.[September 2005]
Jewish Cemetery: Jewish population in 1919 was 450 source: See: submission by Alan Hirschfeld: "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States," pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25,1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; Volume 21. Edited by
Harry Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee
Bellefontaine Cemetery: Bellefontaine Cemetery: Ansche Israel
section on St.Hwy 69, Ansche Israel (defunct), p. 168; Postal
& Koppman. Jewish Tourist's Guide to U.S. Phila., PA:
Jewish Publ. Soc., 1954. Anshe Israel Cemetery (now part
of Bellefontaine Cemetery):
Zion Cemetery: See AJA. American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488. 513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu: List of interred in Zion Cemetery, Sept. 10, 1869 - July 15, 1976. Vital Statistics file
PORTAGE:Porter County
http://members.aol.com/kjtcet2/porter.htm has
general Porter County
information.http://www.rootsweb.com/~innwigs/portercountydeathindexmainpagetable.html?o_xid=0028727949&o_lid=0028727949&o_xt=28727949
has death index. [September 2005]
Beth El Cemetery: Willowdale & Central
Ave. [September 2005]
Temple Israel Cemetery:Willowdale & Central Ave
[September 2005]
Earlham Cemetery: US Hwy 40. 1101 National Road, West
Richmond, Indiana 47374. (765) 962-7712. In 1971, Beth Boruk
section began. [September 2005]
SOUTH BEND: St. Joseph County http://www.rootsweb.com/~instjose/ has
general St. Joseph County information. [September 2005]http://www.rootsweb.com/~insbags/indexto.htm
for information about St. Joseph County burials. http://fmcwp.sjcpl.org/fmi/xsl/obits/findrecords.xsl?-view has
obituary index. [September 2005]]
More information: Roger Birdsell, Executive Director of
Michiana Jewish Historical Society for a good history. His office
is at the Jewish Federation Building, Shalom Way, South Bend,
Indiana 46615. Joseph F. Rubin, Sec. Michiana Jewish Historical
Society. Source: Miami 2740 [August 2002]
Rose Hill Cemetery: The first cemetery was chartered in the 1870s, the cemetery was "relocated" in the 1880s. "Rose Hill" in South Bend for predominately Reform Jews. Still active, but limited. Source: Miami 2740 [August 2002] UPDATE: Bodies were
reinterred from Hebrew Society cemetery when this opened.
http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/markers/7120021.html.
Temple Beth-El, 1905.http://www.tbe-sb.org: Temple Beth-El
maintains Rose Hill Cemetery, a small burial ground in the heart
of South Bend that follows Reform Jewish burial rites. [September
2005]
TERRE HAUTE:Vigo County http://www.ingenweb.net/vigo/index.htm has
general Vigo County information.
http://www.indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0743.html has
Jewish history. [September 2005]
http://in006.urj.net/: United Hebrew
Congregation, 540 South Sixth Street. Terre Haute, Indiana 47807
(812) 232-5988. "In 1845 David Arnold and others purchased a
piece of land at First Street and Eighth Avenue in Terre Haute
for a burial ground. This was followed in 1849 by the formation
of a burial society, the beginning of a communal and religious
Jewish life in Terre Haute. In 1858 the burial society formally
organized as a Jewish congregation. ... In 1934 the two Terre
Haute congregations merged administratively, creating the United
Temple. Later the name changed to United Hebrew Congregation,
still our name. Reform and Orthodox worship, Religious School and
Hebrew Schools were provided using both buildings."
[September 2005]
Jewish population in 1919 was 500
B'nai Abraham Congregation Cemetery: See
AJA. American Jewish
Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488.
513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu: Terre Haute, Indiana.
Congregation B'nai Abraham. Records, 1895-1950. 0.4 linear
ft. Records consists of constitution and by-laws (1906 and 1914),
ledgers (1895-1925), financial records (1911-1924), and ledger of
the B'nai Abraham Ladies Auxiliary (1943-1950). 1230 N. 3rd St,
812-232-8554. Woodlawn Cemetery is situated in the northern part
of the city, on Sec. 16. The original purchase was made by the
city in 139, and contained about sixteen acres. About as much
more was afterward purchased, and nearly the entire tract is
included in the present inclosure. ... The Hebrew cemetery is
immediately west of Woodlawn. Directions at http://www.rootsweb.com/~invigo/cemeteries.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~invigo/woodlawncem.htm has
information. http://www.rootsweb.com/~invigo/Woodlawnbroch1.jpg is
a brochure of cemetery. [September 2005]
Crown Hill: Jewish population in 1919 was 50. Source from Alan Hirschfeld: "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States," pp. 330-583.American Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25,1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; Volume 21. Edited by Harry
Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee
UPDATE:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inknox/cem.html:
Now abandoned, a few stones written entirely in Hebrew, could not
be translated. Otherwise, burial list is found at this site.
Hovas Hochim Synagogue. http://199.8.200.229/db/vin_search.asp is
the Vincennes newspaper database. [September 2005]
Rodef Sholom Cemetery: At Mill St., this is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Indiana. See: p. 170; Postal & Koppman. Jewish Tourist's Guide to U.S. Phila., PA: Jewish Publ. Soc., 1954. Also see AJA. American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488. 513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax).
E-mail: AJA@cn.huc.edu:
Congregation Rodef Shalem Constitution and by-laws, Feb. 9, 1890 of Congregation Rodef Shalem, Wabash, Ind., list of interments in cemetery of the congregation, Sept. 1889 - Sept. 1890, names of owners of pews in the temple, and minutes, Sept. 22, 1912 - June 154, 1940. Microfilm No. 20. (Same as Columbia City, IN.) Records of those buried in the cemetery were compiled by Ronald L. Woodward.
Fort Wayne, IN.June 13, 1977. Small Collections.
B'nai Judah: Jewish population in 1919 was 44. Source from Alan Hirschfeld: "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States," pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25, 1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; Volume 21. Edited by Harry Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee
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