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Cemetery Identification
Cemetery ID: USA-09668
Cemetery Name: Mount Hope Cemetery
Section: Independent Brotherhood of Yonkers (Section 4)
Cemetery Location
Country: USA
State:New York
City: Hastings-on-Hudson
Street: 50 Jackson Avenue
Cemetery Details
Number of Burials: 524
Number of Photographs: 521
Cemetery Description:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Independent Brotherhood of Yonkers (Section 4), 50 Jackson Ave, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA. 524 burials total.

Independent Brotherhood of Yonkers Cemetery has a marked entrance on the Saw Mill River Road side of Mount Hope cemetery, north of Jackson Avenue. It is a part of an Orthodox Jewish concession subdivided into synagogue and burial society sections now all designated Section 4.

Founded in Yonkers, N.Y according to the YIVO Archives http://www.yivoarchives.org/?p=collections/controlcard&id=34306 The Brotherhood purchased graves and functioned as a burial society, provided sick and death benefits, and retained a physician. It used three cemeteries: King David, Mount Hope, and Ferncliff. Dissolved around 1978.

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Data last updated: 08/03/2021

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