Forrest County, Mississippi Genealogy and History
Gene Phillips, County Coordinator
Jeff Kemp - State Coordinator
Position Vacant - Assistant State Coordinator
Bna'i Israel Cemetery
Beverly Hills Rd
Hattiesburg, Forrest County, MS
Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery adjoins Highland Cemetery on the northwest side of Highland. Entrance is off Beverly Hills Drive. Complete listing as of 16 Sep 2007.
Adler, Annie N, Feb. 15, 1881 -- Apr. 7, 1966
Adler, Herbert, Jan. 16, 1909 -- Nov. 26, 1986
Adler, Samuel, Aug. 15, 1874 -- Jul. 22, 1961
Auerbach, Bennett, Jan. 29, 1894 -- Jan. 12, 1987
Auerbach, Esta Lynn, Apr. 14, 1934 -- Jan. 2, 1990
Auerbach, Irene S, Apr. 22, 1904 -- Mar. 4, 1975
Auerbach, Leonard I, Dec. 9, 1924 -- Oct. 14, 1996
Azarch, Charles M, 1921 -- 1995
Azarch, Leah Israelson, 1925 -- 1985
Botnick, Harry, Apr. 9, 1888 -- Feb. 6, 1966
Botnick, Mollie Eisenstat, Dec. 22, 1900 -- Sep. 9, 1995
Botnick, Sheryl Ann, Apr. 24, 1949 -- Apr. 28, 1949
Botnick, Wolf, 1855 -- 1951
Buchalter, Annie, Mar. 8, 1901 -- Sep. 11, 1974
Buchalter, Benjamin, Jun. 10, 1900 -- Apr. 18, 1980
Buchalter, Florence, Aug. 6, 1901 -- Apr. 11, 1994
Buchalter, Harvey R L, Jun. 29, 1941 -- Jun. 2, 1998
Buchalter, Jennie, Sep. 5, 1898 -- Jul. 2, 1948
Buchalter, Leon, Oct. 15, 1892 -- Sep. 7, 1986
Buchalter, Oscar, Sep. 30, 1918 -- Nov. 19, 1945
Caplan, Kate Gordon, Mar. 11, 1888 -- Jun. 22, 1939
Caplan, Louis, Jul. 27, 1884 -- Jul. 27, 1943
Cohen, Freda Signoff, Oct. 24, 1899 -- Oct. 19, 1971
Cohen, Isadore, May 22, 1891 -- May 8, 1968
Cohn, Abram, Jun. 12, 1915 -- Apr. 3, 1987
Conway, Francis Thomas, Dec. 13, 1921 -- Feb. 28, 1994
Dreyfus, Cecile D, Aug. 4, 1886 -- Jun. 16, 1974
Dreyfus, Francis Zacharias, Jul. 4, 1912 -- May 8, 1979
Dreyfus, Frank Terrell, May 25, 1909 -- Mar. 28, 1972
Dreyfus, Irma Meyer, Jun. 25, 1880 -- Nov. 1, 1962
Dreyfus, Leon Hirsch, Feb. 22, 1887 -- Aug. 5, 1953
Dreyfus, Miriam Meyer, Aug. 23, 1878 -- Dec. 8, 1952
Dreyfus, Theodore Frank, Mar. 22, 1878 -- Feb. 16, 1952
Dreyfus, Walter J, Sr, Jan. 5, 1880 -- Sep. 16, 1955
Eisman, Lottie B, Mar. 24, 1895 -- Jan. 17, 1980
Eisman, Sam B, Jul. 23, 1888 -- Oct. 1, 1966
Gersh, Bernice Markowitch, 1917 -- 1992
Gersh, Henry, 1924 -- 1999
Ginsberg, Michael I, Feb. 8, 1898 -- Nov. 14, 1956
Ginsberg, Rose Levy, Jul. 23, 1898 -- Aug. 1, 1985
Glass, Ruth S, Jan. 1, 1913 -- Jul. 3, 2005
Goldin, Patricia Vera, 1927 -- 2006
Harrell, Edgar Allen, Jul. 26, 1943 -- Jun. 2, 1997
Hemmer, George, Jul. 5, 1896 -- Jan. 21, 1954
Hemmer, Harry H, Jr, Dec. 25, 1893 -- Jan. 24, 1955
Hemmer, Hillel, Apr., 1862 -- Jan., 1941
Hemmer, Nathan, Jan. 8, 1898 -- Nov. 25, 1968
Herman, Earl, Nov. 8, 1916 -- Mar. 7, 1982
Herman, Lena Kelsey, Mar. 6, 1919 -- Mar. 9, 2005
Horwitz, Freeda Zevin, Jan. 27, 1906 -- Dec. 15, 1992
Katz, Herman, Sep. 15, 1878 -- Apr. 14, 1965
Katz, Lotta G, Dec. 28, 1880 -- Sep. 1, 1941
Kelsey, Esther Rebecca, Jun. 14, 1914 -- Feb. 27, 1988
Kelsey, Helen Bernice, Mar. 31, 1917 -- Jul. 11, 1982
Kelsey, Sam, 1909 -- 1972
Krell, Paul, Apr. 24, 1922 -- Dec. 23, 1992
Kresteel, Fannie, Aug. 10, 1893 -- Dec. 24, 1965
Kresteel, Hyman, Aug. 12, 1913 -- Mar. 30, 1966
Kresteel, Sarah Hirsch, Jan. 12, 1911 -- Mar. 18, 2001
Lee, Pelman Annie, Jan. 3, 1859 -- Dec. 1, 1939
Levine, David E, Oct. 25, 1908 -- Sep. 28, 1979
Levine, Dora Shor, Mar. 18, 1910 -- Sep. 22, 1984
Levy, Lawrence, Apr. 19, 1896 -- Sep. 14, 1946
Lipstein, Isaac, May 5, 1899 -- Dec. 21, 1965
Lipstein, Lillian E, Apr. 23, 1899 -- Jun. 5, 1968
London, Alvin Newman, Oct. 10, 1924 -- Dec. 18, 1985
London, Dorothy Benjamin, Jun. 17, 1924 -- Oct. 23, 2000
London, Fannie Kurtz, 1862 -- 1945
London, Jacob, 1861 -- 1935
London, Marcus, Oct. 13, 1897 -- Jul. 2, 1960
London, Ruth Katz, 1901 -- 1998
London, Ruth Cramer, Jun. 28, 1897 -- Jul. 13, 1897
London, Simon, Jun. 12, 1891 -- Mar. 6, 1954
Mark, Gust K, Dec. 2, 1894 -- Feb. 7, 1959
Mark, Miriam Lehman, Feb. 26, 1897 -- Aug. 23, 1949
Mermes, David J, Sep. 24, 1886 -- Apr. 10, 1944
Mermes, Franchelle F, Jul. 1, 1892 -- May 16, 1978
Meyer, Herbert Pfeifer, Sep. 30, 1881 -- Dec. 12, 1942
Meyer, Rosa Pfeifer, Jun. 6, 1859 -- Mar. 14, 1942
Miller, Elsie S, Apr. 18, 1896 -- Dec. 18, 1972
Miller, Sam, Dec. 4, 1896 -- Sep. 26, 1969
Moore, Rachell Stamm, 1911 -- 1995
Morris, Sam, unknown -- Dec. 18, 1947
Pelman, Herman, Sep. 3, 1855 -- Jan. 12, 1941
Pelman, Jacob Frank, Jan. 14, 1889 -- Dec. 30, 1956
Pesses, Elizabeth Leah Signoff, Feb. 17, 1940 -- Jun. 8, 1998
Pevsner, Abe, Nov. 15, 1905 -- Jan. 2, 1965
Pevsner, Robert Marc, Mar. 4, 1963 -- Oct. 6, 2001
Pevsner, Rose, Apr. 30, 1907 -- Aug. 13, 1961
Reuben, Celia M, Dec. 18, 1897 -- Jul. 16, 1985
Reuben, Marvin, Feb. 26, 1923 -- Jun. 10, 1994
Sackler, Alvin L, Oct. 20, 1927 -- Oct. 15, 1977
Sackler, Bessie Freeman, unknown -- unknown
Sackler, Fay Druckier, Oct. 10, 1915 -- Apr. 4, 1994
Sackler, Irving, Mar. 3, 1905 -- Jan. 26, 1978
Sackler, Lisa Amy, Aug. 6, 1958 -- Sep. 4, 1958
Sackler, Paul, Mar. 9, 1910 -- Oct. 4, 1951
Sackler, Sam, unknown -- unknown
Sackler, Shani Fran, unknown -- Feb. 10, 1971
Sackler, Shir-Lee M, Jun. 5, 1936 -- Jul. 21, 1983
Schlesinger, Cecile Ruth Ginsberg, Aug. 2, 1927 -- Apr. 12, 2007
Schwartz, Irving, Apr. 26, 1913 -- Sep. 18, 1996
Seidler, Henrietta L, Feb. 9, 1888 -- Apr. 2, 1953
Seidler, Sam, Jun. 9, 1890 -- Jul. 30, 1958
Shemper, Ben, Jul. 20, 1908 -- Jul. 29, 1977
Shemper, Edward S, Dec. 30, 1944 -- Jan. 25, 2004
Shemper, Esther Rosenthal, Oct. 24, 1914 -- Jan. 24, 2004
Shemper, Frank, Mar. 26, 1912 -- Apr. 17, 1976
Shemper, Gene, Aug. 11, 1942 -- Oct. 2, 1948
Shemper, Judith Ann Bauer, Aug. 12, 1944 -- Jul. 20, 2008
Shemper, Sam, Apr., 1858 -- Dec. 27, 1946
Shor, Esther, 1866 -- 1950
Sievers, Charles Aubrey, Dec. 31, 1912 -- Nov. 10, 1997
Sievers, Mildred Mark, Mar. 8, 1917 -- Nov. 25, 2002
Siginoff, Moses, 1877 -- 1956
Siginoff, Sarah Leah, 1877 -- 1961
Signoff, Charles, May 14, 1870 -- Jul. 28, 1957
Signoff, Dora, Dec. 9, 1883 -- Jan. 22, 1957
Signoff, Eva Stamm, Mar. 15, 1908 -- Jul. 11, 1973
Signoff, Max Charles, Mar. 27, 1903 -- Dec. 13, 1976
Silver, Ida C, unknown -- Sep. 1, 1968
Silver, Israel, Oct., 1874 -- Sep. 17, 1947
Silver, Jo Anne, Feb. 14, 1936 -- Mar. 20, 1936
Silver, Sidney, Jan. 6, 1911 -- Oct. 4, 1955
Snider, Ralph A, Dec. 9, 1913 -- Feb. 6, 1973
Stetelman, Dorothy L, Jul. 14, 1928 -- Apr. 11, 1995
Stetelman, Elizabeth Rush, May 28, 1937 -- Oct. 24, 2005
Stetelman, Mike, Mar. 16, 1928 -- Dec. 19, 1988
Waldoff, Ben, Aug. 15, 1907 -- Oct. 19, 1988
Waldoff, Ethel Eisenstat, 1904 -- 1996
Waldoff, Eva, Nov. 5, 1898 -- Jan. 9, 1974
Waldoff, Jean, Nov. 22, 1910 -- Aug. 5, 1984
Waldoff, Norman, 1900 -- 1976
Waldoff, Paul, Oct. 4, 1900 -- Mar. 23, 1962
Wigransky, Abe J, Oct. 22, 1872 -- Oct. 5, 1947
Wigransky, Fannie, Mar. 14, 1875 -- Dec. 9, 1959
Wucher, Daughter, Aug. 1, 1970 -- Aug. 1, 1970
Submitted by Gene Phillips
31 Oct 2008
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