RICHMOND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Hebrew Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Hebrew cemetery:
                  1936 Apr. 13
                  Research made by Malcolm T. Earley

Cemetery Location:  Fourth and Hospital Streets, Richmond, Virginia
                    Richmond Co., Virginia


DATE:

1816

OWNERS:

The Hebrews of Richmond, Virginia

DESCRIPTION:

This cemetery is well kept.  Inside of a small enclosure ornamented with sabres 
and guns, lie thirty of the Confederate dead.   The markers over their graves 
contain in the inscriptions, only the name and the state from which the soldier 
came.

A bronze tablet giving the date of the  laying out of the cemetery was erected 
here in 1916.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The first Hebrew cemetery in Virginia, on Marshall and Clay Streets, between 
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Streets, was established in 1791.   The bodies 
have since been removed to the present cemetery next to the Hebrew Church at the 
northwest corner of Fourth and Hospital Streets, overlooking Shockoe Hills 
Cemetery.  This was established in 1816 and it was two years later, in 1818, 
that the first interment was made.

Thirty of the Confederate dead lie buried here in a separate enclosure.



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants:  Mr. E. P . Whitlock, Richmond, Virginia
             Mr. Whitlock is the caretaker of the cemetery.

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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