Temple Anshe Chesed Cemetery - Vicksburg, MS
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N 32° 20.760 W 090° 51.251
15S E 701939 N 3580812
A History marker at a Jewish Cemetery in Vicksburg, MS
Waymark Code: WMDBW1
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 12/21/2011
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Temple Anshe Chesed Cemetery
This site is the second Jewish cemetery on Vicksburg. The exact location of the first cemetery has not been determined. The first burial here was that of Meyer Meyer on May 16, 1865. Four rabbis who served this congregation have there final resting place in this cemetery.
Rabbi Bernhard Gotthelf, born February 5, 1819, was a Union chaplain who served as the first rabbi in Vicksburg. He died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
Rabbi Herman M. Bien (1835-1895) was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany.
Rabbi Sol L. Kory (1879-1936) linked the local Orthodox and Reform Congregations.
Rabbi Adolf Phillipsborn (1888-1967) escaped the Nazi Holocaust.
Date Installed:: 2005/1/1
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