Show IN EX THE HEART WWW OF NEW back ot of the demolished building at twenty first street and sixth ave nuis muaia a plot of ground about the size 0 of r acety a city lot thickly dotted with ancient grave stones A high brick wall separates tho the yard from twenty first street I 1 and while the houses stood in front of it no casual passer would have suspected that within was a burial banal ground it was the third jew ish iob cemetery opened in in this city by the congregation Sh shealith earith israel whose synagogue is in in nineteenth street at reet dear car fifth 1 fifth avenue this thia is is the oldest jewish congregation in in this cit yand its records date back to 1705 it is an offshoot of the congregation 0 of I 1 N newport ew port which was organized in in 1650 its first farat burial ground was in in oliver street and was bought in in 1681 many years ago an ordinance orda nance was passed prohibiting interments inter ments within the eity city limits and burials were stopped in in tho the oliver street plot ground was thou then bought boug lItin in eleventh street near sixth avenue and when the city reached out beyond that the congregation purchased the plot in in twenty first street that was waa in 1829 and the city did not again in in until 1851 since that time the synagogue has boa buried its dead at oppress cypress hills hilla Cem cemetery wery in the contra centre of the big row of flat stones nearest sixth avenue in in tile the twenty first street ground is is the old oat cat monument of them all its dati date and inscription are obliterated the row of graves contains the remains remains which were removed from oliver street to make way vay for a street extension sion the names aro are all strange and written in in spanish or but bat familiar names are found among the stones of later date hendricks na than crandon Cran doD cardozo lazarus henriques noah are some of those best known moses L M great grand father of E edgar philips and M minister i t of the congregation D g until 18 1828 2 8 I 1 lies i afi under tc the shaft h ri in the centro centre of the ground 0 u d next to him lies major 9 No abonce ln once sheriff of the county isaaac nunes cardozo grandfather of the late judge cardozo Oard ozo is is buried here and harmon hendricks grandfather to the copper merchants of that name came and their aunt rosalie lie under solid blocks of granite erected to commemorate me 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 the services for the dead the jewish religion prohibits the removal of the jewish dead except to prevent ent a desecration of the remains remains VT As a soon oon as the present building 1 op erat orations ions are completed the plot will ago again in be closed against intrusion in the cypress hill burying ground the land la is divided into family plots lots but in in the old city grounds the ge bodies were buried side by y 1 side in in the order of their deaths the oldest grave in the twenty first street cemetery is in the tha Southeast corner it wits was dug dog in in 1829 the last was in 1851 only about one lot was used for graves be tore fore the law stopped further farther inter moots ments there the rest of the land was ft as rented arld and buildings were erect ed ad on it the part built upon which cost or originally was sold recently to oneil for sew twi sun |