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IX THE HEART OFBEff IfOftK.Back of the demolished building at Twenty first street and Sixth avenues a plot of ground about the size of a city Jot thickly dotted with ancient grave stones. A high brick wall separatee the yard from Twenty first si rest, and while the houses stood in front of it no casual passer would have suspected that within was a burial ground, It was the third Jew ish cemetery opened in this city by the congregation. Shearitb Israel* whose synagogue is in Nineteenth street* near Fifth avenue. This is tbs oldest Jewish congregation in thia city,and its records data back to 1705, It is an oEshoot of the congregation of Newport which was organized in 1G50, Its first burial ground^ was in Oliver street* and was bought in 1G81* Many years ago an ordanauce was paaaed prohibiting interments within the eity limits, and burials were stopped in the Oliver street§Iq1j, Ground was then bought-in llevenlb street, near Sixth avenue, and when tha city reached out beyond that the congregation purchased tbe plot in Twenty first street. That was in 1829, and the city did not again interfere until 1851. Since that time the synagogue has buried its dead at Cypress Jdtlis CemWery^In the centre of tha big row of flat atones nearest Sixth avenue in the Twenty first street ground is the old eat monument of them all. Its date and jo scrip Lion are obliterated. The tow of graves contains tba remains which were removed from Oliver Blreet to make way for a Btreet extension. The narnBS are all strange and written in Spanish or Portages a, But familiar names Ore found among the stones of later date, Hendricks, Na than, Crandoc, Cardozo, Seixas, Lazarus, Henriquea, Noah are soma of those best known,Closes Ij. M.Fieiotto, great grandfather of Edgar Philips and minister of the congregation until 1828, lice under the ehaft in the centre of the ground. Neit to him lies Major Noahronca sheriff of the county. Isaao Nunns Cardozo, grandfather of the late Judge Oardozo, is buried hero, and Harmon Hendricks, grandfather to the copper merchants of that name, and their aunt, Bosalie, lie under solid blocks of granite erected to commemorate them.Near the Twenty first street -en trance to the ground is a plain brick building with a single pitch roof. In this were held tbs services for the dead.The Jewish religion prohibits the removal of the Jewish dead except to prevent a desecration af the remains. As soon as the present building operations Bre completed the plot will again be closed against Intrusion. la the Oypress Hill burying ground the land is divided into family plots, hut in tbe old city grounds the bodies were buried eida by side in tbe order cf their deaths. The oldest grave in the Twenty first street cemetery is in the Eantbeasl. corner, It wee dug in 182D„ The last was in 1851, Only about one lot wsb used for graves be fore the law stopped further inter manta there. The real of the land was rented and buildings were erect ed on it. The part built upon, which cost 53,000 or $4,000 originally, was said recently to O'Neil for $2GU,000, Nm York Swru
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Provo Territorial Enquirer
Provo, Utah, US
Tue, Jun 28, 1887
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