Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati
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The Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati (the oldest west of the Alleghenies) is located just northwest of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio in the Betts-Longworth Historic District. It is situated just west of Central Avenue on the north side of Chestnut Street, in the historic West End. The Cemetery is sited on a tiny plot enclosed by high walls and a locked gate.
In 1821, when Benjamin Lieb (first death in the community) was dying, he begged to be buried as a Jew. Morris Moses and Joseph Jonas, two of Cincinnati's six Jews, purchased the lot for Cincinnati's first Jewish cemetery from Nicholas Longworth for $75.00, and then buried Lieb there.
The Cemetery has 85 graves and been closed since 1849 after the Cholera epidemic filled the cemetery.[1]
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Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors, American Guide Series, The Weisen-Hart Press, May 1943, page 226
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