Coming Street Cemetery/ KKBE!!

This past Saturday me and my graveyard studies class met at the coming street cemetery for a tour and a lesson on the history of the area.  This cemetery is associated with the Khal Kadosh Beth Elohim, which is a Jewish synagogue.   Our guides on the tour were none other than the Anita Moise Rosenburg, and Randi Serrins, who were excellent to listen to.

The coming street cemetery was established one hundred and fourteen years ago in 1762.   An impressive fact about the cemetery is that it is the "oldest standing Jewish cemetery in the south."   The cemetery is also different from the other ones we have visited because it has been the only cemetery that isn't connected to the church itself.   This is due to the fact that Jewish faith believes that life and death should not be together.

There are many interesting people buried in the Jewish cemetery which makes it so exhilarating to visit.   Also, "each and everybody in the cemetery is 6 feet underground".   There is a total of 800 bodies buried in the Jewish cemetery.   This includes 8 soldiers from the war of 1812, 12 revolutionary war soldiers, 20 presidents of the congregation, 6 rabbis, and 2 soldiers from the Seminole wars in Florida. So the cemetery is very diverse!

With so many bodies buried in just one acre of land, the church has families buried all in one grave which, saves a lot of space!

Fun facts of the Cemetery!!

1.  There is a cenotaph of a confederate soldier Theodore Belitzer.

2. A cenotaph is a grave marker for a person although the body is buried elsewhere.

3. We were told that the Cemetery is haunted by a ghost that our tour guides have images of!

4. In the cemetery we saw alot of pebbles left on graves which symbolizes protection over the grave.  This goes way back to when people buried bodys in rocks to protect the body from animals.

All around the tour was a very educational experience and very interesting to learn the differences of Jewish cemeteries!

A plague of the name and date established of the cemetery.

This was the tour guides picture of what they described as the ghost!

This above is the cenotaph of the confederate soldier,  Theodore Belitzer.

This stone gives an example of the symbol of leaving pebbles on gravestones.

This was is a ledger of Maxine "Mackie" Triest Freudenberg.

The photo above was taken 60 feet up in a tree that is no longer in the cemetery.