RICHMOND COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Hebrew Cemetery ----¤¤¤---- 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. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joan Renfrow NOTICE: I have no relationship or further information in regards to this family. ___________________________________________________________________