Leon Benedikt -- Temple Emmanu-El Cemetery, Dallas TX
N 32° 48.196 W 096° 47.739
14S E 706398 N 3631629
The zinc tombstone for little Leon Benedikt was originally interred in the first Jewish Cemetery in Dallas on South Akard Street, then exhumed and reinterred in Temple Emmanu-El Cemetery of Dallas in 1956
Waymark Code: WMWCV0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/15/2017
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The small zinc tombstone at the grave of Leon Benedikt, who died in 1883 and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Downtown Dallas. In 1956 all the graves at the old Jewish Cemetery were reverently and respectfully exhumed and relocated to Temple Emmanu-El Cemetery in Dallas TX.
The tombstone reads as follows:
[front]
LEON
Son of Max and Elenore Benedikt
Born Oct 31, 1876
Died May 16, 1883.
[back]
Hebrew Text
May his soul be bound to life everlasting."
Date of birth (optional): 10/31/1876
Date of death (optional): 05/16/1883
Headstone text (optional):
[front]
LEON
Son of Max and Elenore Benedickt
Born Oct 31, 1876
Died May 16, 1883.
[back]
Hebrew Text
May his soul be bound to life everlasting."
Website: [Web Link]
Additional Coordinates (optional): Not Listed
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