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Chevra Kadusha of Chelsea Cemetery, 19 Washington Street, Woburn, MA, US. 2423 burials total.
Chevra Kadusha of Chelsea cemetery in Woburn Massachusetts is is independently managed. The cemetery includes a large cross-section of Chelsea's Jewish Community with burials from 1891 through the 2000s. Consistent with the era, some of the markers are entirely in Hebrew, and some are missing surnames. The interred include many young victims of the Spanish Flu epidemic, young WWI and WWII soldiers who were lost to war, as well as veterans, including some military markers. Other notable monuments are to victims of fires that were front-page news of the day, and a victim of the 1907 tragedy of the Block Island downing of the Joy Line Steamer Larchmont that was traveling from Boston to New York when 130 people perished. A newer cemetery with burials beginning in the 1950s was established in Everett, Ma. A third Chevra Kadusha of Chelsea cemetery in Peabody Ma was consolidated within the Maple Hill Cemetery there. This set of data, photographs, transcription and translation provided by Pauline Shapiro Flanagan, a great granddaughter to immigrants from Krakenava and Anyksciai Lithuania who settled in Chelsea in the early 1900s.
Cemetery entrance.
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