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Ashley Jewish Cemetery: {10194} 3.5 miles north of town, near the South Dakota line.

The cemetery web site is www.ashleyjewishcemetery.org.

Information is in Postal & Koppman Jewish Tourist's Guide to U.S. Phila., PA: Jewish Publ. Soc., 1954, p.487-488-489.

An article about this cemetery appeared in the newspaper Tribune on 11/29/1987, Sunday Section but exact source is unclear.

Contact information:

-- President, Ashley Jewish Cemetery Association: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 6343 52nd Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118, 206-725-1584. [October 2003]

-- Vice President, Ashley Jewish Cemetery Association: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

-- Rabbi Jon-Jay Tilsen, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel, 85 Harrison Street at Whalley Avenue, New Haven CT 06515-1724, www.beki.org.

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In ND REC Magazine, July 1986, "The Lost Jews of McIntosh" appeared. The cemetery, which belonged to sixty Jewish families and holds 21 graves, is just off the highway winding outside of the county seat of Ashley. The Jewish community existed until about the 1920s. Some tombstones have photographs inset under recessed glass. Source: Cecelia H. Comroe, No. 218, 8940 Krewstown Rd., Phil. PA 19115. [UPDATE] See first photo, below, for picture containing article. (September 2019]

 

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[UPDATE] Press release re: National Register of Historic Places Program [Feb 2016]

[UPDATE] Press release from December 2015 [February 2016]

[UPDATE] Donation and information web page [February 2016]

[UPDATE] Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation article/photos [May 2017]

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Photos courtesy Rebecca Bender [February 2016]

Photo courtesy Robyn Schock [February 2016]

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