THE HEBREW CEMETERY
                             Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada

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				      INTRODUCTION

During the height of the Comstock, this cemetery served the burial needs for Virginia City's 
thriving Jewish community.  The cemetery was established in 1863 and was described as a "very 
handsome plot of ground(1).  As the Comstock mining activity ebbed in the late 1880's and 
early 1890's, Virginia City's population began to shrink.  As a result, the cemeteries, 
including the Hebrew cemetery, fell into disrepair and over the next 100 years desert 
vegetation reclaimed the landscape.

Unfortunately, the cemetery has been the subject of anti-Semitic vandalism on several 
occasions during the last one hundred years.  Headstones have been destroyed or defaced and 
the cemetery generally desecrated.  For this reason the location of the cemetery will not be 
revealed in this publication.  Those who would like to visit the cemetery should contact the 
Comstock Historic District Commission at 702-847-0281.


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                              SURNAMES: ADLER Thru ROSENTHAL

ADLER, Adelia,   b: 8/29/1862   d: 1/13/1863,  Birth Place: Unknown, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located   
     
BARNERT, Jacob,   b: 6/15/1869   d: 8/20/1873,  Birth Place: Cleveland, Ohio, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Son of Joseph and Marrim Barnert
     
BERCK,   b: 12/14/1854   d: 9/9/1874,  Birth Place: St. Louis, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Broken headstone
     
COHN, Isaac,   b: about 1823   d: 3/6/1897,  Birth Place: Unknown, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located   
     
COHN, Harris,   b: 3/9/1832   d: 8/8/1879,  Birth Place: Prussia, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located   
     
COHN, Lottie,   b: about 1843   d: 6/18/1884,  Birth Place: Prussia, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Wife of Harris Cohn
     
DAVID, Simon,   b: about 1824   d: 8/31/1877,  Birth Place: Posen, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located   
     
GRISWALD, Sarah,   b: 9/29/1861   d: 12/17/1864,  Birth Place: Unknown, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located  
     
HAMBURGER, Jules,   b: about 1812   d: 9/6/1867,  Birth Place: Prussia, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   An assayer
     
HESS, Mattie,   b: 12/5/1871   d: 8/26/1872,  Birth Place: Virginia City, Nev., 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Daughter of Lewis and Helene Hess
     
KORN, Aaron,   b: 4/26/1862   d: 3/21/1863,  Birth Place: Virginia City, Nev., 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Son of M. and B. Korn
     
MANDEL, Benjamin,   b: 1/17/1854   d: 6/30/1873,  Birth Place: Trunbach, Alsace, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located  
     
MAYER, Adeline,   b: 3/20/1848   d: 3/2/1890,  Birth Place: Unknown, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Wife of Isadore Mayer
     
MAYER, William,   b: 8/13/1838   d: 9/9/1876,  Birth Place: Carlarhe, Baden, Germany, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located  
     
MCCREADIE, Amelia Marcia,   b: about 1839   d: 10/15/1879,  Birth Place: Dessen Darmstadt,
    Germany, Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located  
     
NEWBERGER, Albert,   b: 1/28/1881   d: 10/1/1889,  Birth Place: Virginia City, Nev., 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Son of Leopold and Henrietta
    Newberger
     
NEWBERGER, Leopold,   b: about 1845   d: 9/8/1893,  Birth Place: Bavaria, Germany, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Wife's name was Henrietta
     Newberger
     
PINSCHOUER, Jacob,   b: about 1819   d: 10/24/1886,  Birth Place: Kempen, Prussia, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Wife's name was Regina.
     
REEB, Lewis,   b: 6/14/1828   d: 9/7/1863,  Birth Place: Germany, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located  
     
RICE, Fanny,   b: about 1840   d: 8/12/1875,  Birth Place: Wasserlos, Germany, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located,   Wife of Samuel Rice
     
ROBINSON, Rebecca,   b: 5/10/1840   d: 3/26/1893,  Birth Place: London, England, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located  
     
ROSENTHAL, Louis,   b: 9/1872   d: 4/25/1876,  Birth Place: Unknown, 
     Buried in Hebrew Cemetery, plot number: not located   
     
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