Mikveh Israel Cemetery - Federal Street (Partial), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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                        Mikveh Israel Cemetery (second cemetery)
                          a.k.a Federal Street Burial Ground
                                  1114 Federal Street
                     Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 
 
                              Contact: Ms. Sarah Goldberg
                              Mikveh Israel Synagogue office
                                  Independence Mall East
                                     44 N. 4th Street
                             Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  19106
                                    251 - 922 - 5446
                                                         
Pennsylvania Historical Marker
Marker Name: Federal Street Burial Grounds
County: Philadelphia
Location: Federal St. between 11th and 12th Streets, Philadelphia
 
                                       Marker Text
 
      Congregation Mikveh Israel's second cemetery, founded 1849. Here are buried
      Abraham Hart the publisher; Alfred Mordecai, soldier and engineer;
      Dr. Sabato Morais, rabbi and educator; Judge Mayer Sulzberger; and noted
      Civil War veterans.
 



Name                                                 Date of Birth       Date of Death       Comments
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HART, Abraham
 
HYNEMAN, Sgt. Elias Leon                             1837                1865                Civil War
    Died Andersonville Prison, Ga. - Son of Benjamin Hyneman and Rebekah Gumpertz 
    
MORAIS, Rabbi Sabato                                 13 Apr 1823         12 Nov 1897         74 years of age
    Son of Samuel and Bonina (nee Wolf) Morais - Husband of Clara Esther Weil, died 1872        
    Father of Mrs. Nina Cohen, Henry Samuel, Esther, Mrs. Rebecca Lyon, Mrs. Gentile Loeb,
    Miriam and Leon David Morais
 
MORDECAI, Alfred - s/o Jacob                         03 Jan 1804         23 Oct 1887         85 years of age     
          
 SULZBERGER, Judge Mayer                             22 Jun 1843         20 Apr 1923         81 years of age
    Son of Abraham Mayer and Sophie Einstein
 
Source: Obituaries
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