Cemeteries in Alabama - Cemeteries in Birmingham, Alabama, Cemeteries in Mobile, Alabama, Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama) (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cemeteries in Birmingham, Alabama, Cemeteries in Mobile, Alabama, Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama), Maple Hill Cemetery (Huntsville, Alabama), Catholic Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama), Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery, Alabama National Cemetery, Oak Hill Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama), Church Street Graveyard, Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama), Mobile National Cemetery, Ahavas Chesed Cemetery, Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard. Excerpt: Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Magnolia Cemetery was established by municipal ordinance on an initial 36 acres (14.5 hectares) outside the city limits in 1836 as Mobile's New Burial Ground. The cemetery grew to its present size with the addition of the numerous new sections. The Jewish Rest section, also known as the Old Hebrew Burial Ground, was deeded to Congregation Sha'arai Shomayim, the oldest Reform Jewish congregation in the state of Alabama, by the City of Mobile on 22 June 1841. Jewish Rest is the oldest Jewish burial ground in Alabama. The Jewish Rest section was full after only a few decades and led to the establishment of two additional Jewish cemeteries in Mobile, the Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery and the Ahavas Chesed Cemetery for the Conservative Jewish congregation. Monument for Eliza Bleecker. A portion of the Jewish Rest section.In 1846 the city began to grant free burial plots within the cemetery to civic, labor, and religious organizations. The Coal Handlers Union, Colored Benevolent Institution Number One, Cotton Weighers Society, Draymens Relief Society, Homeless Seamen, Independent Ladies Mill and Timber Association, and the Protestant Orphan Asylum Society were among those organizations to take advantage of this policy until it was ended in 1... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14309576