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Cemetery Identification
Cemetery ID: USA-03519
Cemetery Name: Bass Avenue Cemetery
Section: Temple Israel Cemetery
Cemetery Location
Country: USA
State:Tennessee
City: Memphis
Street: 1708 Hernando Road
Cemetery Details
Number of Burials: 111
Number of Photographs: 109
Cemetery Description: This is the historic Bass Avenue Cemetery that served Temple Israel from the 1840s to 1907 when it was moved to the current cemetery location. Samuel Andrews, the first Jew to die in Tennessee, is buried in the section as is Jos. I. Andrews, the grandson of Haym Saloman, the Revolutionary War financier and the grandson of Benjamin Nones, a Revolutionary War hero.
Data last updated: 07/10/2011

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