The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the B’nai Israel Hebrew Cemetery in New Hanover County, NC.
Location: take Market St (Hwy 17) and turn on N 18th St and the cemetery will be on the left across from Grace St.
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View photos of the headstones here.
GPS Coordinates:
34.240774 N
77.926799 W
Epitaphs are as follows:
Hilda Flitter Katz
Feb 13 1919
Sep 7 2006
MM
Florence L Medlin
1920-2012
Double Stone
Kron
Stephen Jay
Aug 5 1945
Jan 22 2010
NOI
Irving Jerrold Ginsberg
Mar 31 1951
Oct 5 2009
Double Stone
Greene
Harold
Nov 21 1914
Nov 20 1997
Jean Rubinstein
Aug 6 1925
Jan 21 2006
MM
Miriam Ramon Friedman
Jul 22 1922
Apr 5 2012
Double Stone
Rabbi Harold A Friedman
Sep 2 1917
Jul 23 1997
Irving Bernard Margolis MD
Aug 7 1930
Jun 7 2002
Walter P Ortell
Jul 24 1942
Dec 4 2009
FS
Walter P Ortell
PFC US Marine Corps
Jul 24 1942
Dec 4 2009
Nachman Nathan Katz
Jun 8 1916
Mar 14 2001
Bessie Levin Green
Feb 22 1900
Jan 13 1994
Rosalind Leder Segerman
Jul 18 1920
Mar 18 2003
Julius Segerman
Jun 8 1914
Jan 25 1990
Double Stone
Leder
Julian Herman Leder
May 4 1901
Oct 1 1991
Yetta Leinwand Leder
Feb 15 1907
Feb 13 1990
Bettye Stein
Died
Oct 8 1953
Colman Horowitz
Feb 12 1920
Jan 5 1963
Double Stone
Garil
Stanley
Mar 13 1933
Apr 1 1998
NOI
Claire Brodie Warshaw
May 15 1906
Dec 29 1985
Rachel Abrams
Died
Mar 2 1988
Harry Elias Abrams
Oct 13 1894
Jan 11 1989
Tillie Davis
Apr 7 1888
Nov 9 1976
Egon Rosenblum
Mar 17 1898
Feb 4 1959
Hyman Horowitz
Died
Aug 13 1911
Golda Lee Ratner Fox
Oct 11 1928
Oct 2 2007
Raymond Milton Fox
Jun 14 1923
Jan 2 1999
Double Stone
Schwartz
Sophie Dana
May 22 1999
May 27 1999
Elliott Maxwell
May 22 1999
May 25 1999
Mogulefsky
Jun 14 1945
NOD
Nathan Aronoe
Died
Feb 11 1942
Joseph Bass
Jul 15 1888
Nov 11 1942
Ida Plisco
Died
Sep 2 1946
Age 57 yrs
Anna Stein Plisco
Nov 27 1910
Feb 23 1993
Noah Plisco
Aug 21 1914
Dec 30 1966
Elsie Shain
Aug 10 1930
Sep 13 2010
Jerome Shain
Dec 18 1928
Sep 18 2004
Freda R Hurwitz
Jun 16 1892
Jan 14 1997
Isaac Hurwitz
Apr 2 1877
Feb 12 1947
Joseph David Levine
Jan 4 1909
Feb 16 1974
Esther Levine
1877-1961
Isaac Levine
Mar 27 1963
NOD
Morris I Davis
Nov 6 1885
Apr 18 1973
Norman Hurwitz
Oct 7 1917
Jan 6 1998
Abe Rubin
Jul 7 1904
Sep 20 1995
Norma E May
Oct 16 1924
Apr 16 2008
Frances L May
May 21 1914
May 12 1976
Harold May
Dec 12 1909
Feb 7 1984
Esther L May
Aug 17 1889
Mar 26 1973
Benjamin May
Sep 8 1882
Dec 23 1975
Ann Turem Berger
Apr 6 1904
Dec 17 1998
Samuel Berger
Jan 2 1901
Jul 22 1974
Annie Berger
Died
Apr 23 1955
Age 77 yrs
Harry Berger
Died
Nov 1 1954
Age 81 yrs
Lena Wolk
Aug 15 1882
Dec 28 1952
Nathan Schwartz
Mar 9 1916
May 1 2008
Louise Berman Schwartz
Oct 27 1924
Jul 22 2003
William Schwartz
Aug 19 1922
Mar 8 2003
Mayor of Wilmington
1983-1985
Sylvia Wolk Schwartz
Jun 3 1911
Aug 7 1997
Benjamin David Schwartz
Jan 17 1909
Jul 11 2001
Mayor of Wilmington
1969-1972
NC House of Representatives
1972-1978
NC Senate
1978-1980
Joseph Max Schwartz
Oct 28 1923
Jun 1 1992
Louis Schwartz
1884-1963
Sidney Melvin Schwartz
1917-1952
Naomi Tockar
Died
May 11 1938
Anna Briskin
Died
Aug 2 1933
Benjamin Kaminsky
Aug 15 1897
Mar 13 1920
Benjamin Raskind
Nov 19 1917
Mar 23 2011
Annie Schwartz
1885-1962
Double Stone
Popkin
Sidney
Nov 9 1927
Sep 27 2007
Marie Sellers
Nov 15 1928
Aug 5 2006
Benjamin Kramer
Died
May 2 2001
Age 87 yrs
Ethel Kramer
Died
Dec 4 2006
Age 85 yrs
Justin Raphael
1st Lt US Army
World War II
Apr 8 1923
Mar 31 2010
Arthur Apple
Jul 24 1920
Apr 12 1997
Joseph L Freedland
Sep 26 1910
May 8 2003
Sara From Freedland
Sep 12 1912
Dec 30 1984
Vivian Katzoff Kramer
Feb 24 1911
Aug 18 2009
Harry Edward Kramer
Feb 27 1910
Aug 14 1983
Ruth Goldman Caplan
Feb 25 1925
Jul 1 1973
George Caplan
Jun 3 1912
Oct 6 2007
Harold Brandeis Abrams
Jun 6 1916
Jan 3 1978
Myrtle Weiner Zipser
Feb 16 1922
Sep 8 1993
Annie Goldstein Abrams
Dec 21 1891
Jul 6 1978
Robert B Shain
Jun 27 1936
Sep 14 2003
Helen G Checkner
Oct 10 1902
Dec 8 2001
Solomon Checkner
Mar 15 1901
Dec 26 1968
Evelyn Moskowitz Cohen
Jan 11 1923
Mar 3 2002
Charles Cohen
Jul 31 1913
May 9 1993
Herbert Moskowitz
Mar 18 1928
May 30 1995
Liba C Moskowitz
Mar 18 1893
Nov 11 1979
Jacob Moskowitz
Nov 15 1887
Jul 2 1963
Solomon Shain
1891-1970
Mary B Shain
1899-1962
Meyer Aaron Miller
Died
Jun 20 1961
Naomi Ostrie Miller
May 28 1898
Jul 9 1987
Nathan Horowitz
Feb 8 1928
May 15 1961
Louis Lieberman
Died
Jul 13 1959
Sarah Horowitz
Jul 4 1894
May 4 1974
Jacob Horowitz
May 15 1888
Jan 13 1955
Morris Friedland
Aug 10 1907
Nov 30 1992
Sarah Friedland
Sep 17 1909
Dec 23 1982
David Paul
Son of
Morris & Sarah Friedland
Jan 6 1942
Oct 18 1948
Jacob Hurwitz
Jan 12 1885
Jul 1 1947
Gladys Hurwitz
NOI
Sylvia Hurwitz
NOI
Moses L Hurwitz
Died
Mar 23 1942
Age 62 yrs
Hyman Stein
Died
Jul 24 1930
Age 45 yrs
Goldie Shain Stein
Jan 15 1886
Nov 15 1973
Max Margolis
Jan 10 1883
Jul 3 1937
Celia Margolis
Wife of
Isreal Nathan Kramer
Feb 2 1889
Oct 12 1957
Israel Nathan Kramer
Died
Sep 26 1943
Age 60 yrs
Arthur Aaron Schwartz
Sgt US Air Corps
Jun 16 1919
Killed in Action
Dec 17 1943
Hebrew translation by
Elana Kahn:
Here lies buried
Our beloved son and husband
The soldier Reb Aharon Avraham
ben Reb Yitzchak Shvartz
(Aaron Abraham
son of Isaac Schwartz)
Who was killed in the
Second World War
On the 20th of Kislev 5704
(Dec 17, 1943)
And was buried here
with great honor
On the 6th of Menachem Av 5708
(Aug 11, 1948)
David B Shore
Dec 25 1895
Jul 25 1959
Jacob Miller
Died
Nov 21 1949
Age 57 yrs
Joseph Simon Mann
Oct 13 1896
Jan 14 1968
Lillie Margolis
Wife of
Joseph S Mann
Dec 25 1898
May 23 1950
Mary S Margolis
Wife of
Harry E Margolis
1880-1955
Harry E Margolis
Oct 1 1878
Oct 26 1951
Philip Leinwand
May 25 1885
Aug 21 1958
Esther N Leinwand
Mar 14 1884
Oct 23 1953
Harry J Stein
Jul 1 1900
Jan 26 1990
Minnie Jaffe Stein
Dec 25 1910
Nov 7 2001
Dora Wolfe Jaffe
Sep 25 1887
Sep 2 1973
Harry Jaffe
May 31 1887
May 17 1962
Sam Evenson
Mar 15 1889
Jan 17 1967
Becky Wolff Evenson
Dec 17 1896
Apr 18 1969
Norman Evenson
Jun 30 1921
Jun 8 2009
Jerome Evenson
Aug 4 1929
Nov 15 1999
Alan Michael Evenson
Jan 7 1959
Oct 2 1983
Mary Axler
Mar 12 1900
Jan 26 1968
FS
Mary
Wife of
Albert Axler
Rose N Alper
Dec 10 1890
Dec 30 1972
George E Alper
Jun 6 1907
Nov 13 1994
Edith M Alper
Dec 16 1910
Apr 22 1993
John Edward D'Lugin
Mar 9 1951
Oct 6 1977
Hyman Kramer
Nov 17 1920
Feb 8 2009
Doris Zerden Kramer
Oct 13 1925
Apr 28 2011
Celia Cooley Mann
Feb 1 1909
Dec 8 1990
Simon Harold Steinberg
Sep 1 1915
Mar 24 1976
Beatrice Mann Steinberg
Oct 5 1921
Feb 29 2008
Anna Lowenstein Goldstein
Jun 24 1899
Dec 13 1999
Abraham Goldstein
Jan 2 1898
Jul 9 1972
Samuel Gintel
Jan 10 1889
Feb 18 1972
Flora Pearlstine Leinwand
May 10 1893
Jan 29 1985
Isaac Leinwand
Jan 14 1887
Oct 17 1970
Joseph Burke Simon
Nov 18 1914
Mar 30 1989
Dorothy Sater Simon
Dec 18 1916
Dec 27 1970
Abraham Simon
Oct 25 1885
Dec 30 1969
Gussie Burke Simon
Jan 15 1895
Oct 18 1985
Moe Kotler
Sep 25 1916
Nov 28 2008
Mary Kotler
Jul 20 1890
Jan 28 1965
Lorayne Rubenstein D'Lugin
1923-1991
Eva Kaminsky D'Lugin
1895-1986
Jacob D'Lugin
1890-1959
Lillian D'Lugin
Jan 20 1894
Dec 17 1981
Abraham D'Lugin
Sep 14 1886
Sep 17 1978
Robert Alex Kingoff
Mar 29 1960
Aug 6 1994
Samuel Scherr
Apr 18 1892
Dec 5 1957
Anna K Scherr
Aug 18 1893
Jun 5 1973
Sadie Lipton
1894-1957
Simon Lipton
1884
Dec 6 1952
Edward A Neuwirth
Jan 8 1899
Jun 7 1957
Henry B Neuwirth
Died
Jan 27 1950
Age 85 yrs
Shain
Died
Aug 8 1949
Age 90 yrs
*Can someone
translate please?
See photo pg 4
Edwin Shain
May 9 1928
Jan 18 1989
Isaac Shain
Oct 3 1887
Jul 25 1973
Harriet Abel
May 17 1914
Feb 12 1947
Graham Bernard Davis
Oct 27 1916
Apr 14 2005
Aaron Abraham
Died
Jun 7 1909
Nathan Stein
Feb 11 1916
Feb 8 2004
Esther Silver Stein
Jun 15 1920
Dec 9 2007
Charles Finkelstein
Died
Dec 26 1955
Jerry Joseph Popkin
Feb 3 1923
Jan 27 1988
Double Stone
Zimmer
William Rudell
Jun 21 1918
Jul 22 2002
NOI
Samuel David Rabunsky
Died
Aug 24 1974
Age 83 yrs
Sarah Shain Rabunsky
Wife of
Samuel David Rabunsky
Died
Jun 9 1965
Age 76 yrs
Gerald Miller
Son of
Naomi & Meyer Miller
Aug 12 1927
May 14 2001
Albert Simon Jacobson
Apr 5 1916
Feb 12 1959
FS
Albert S Jacobson
New York
Captain 409 Engineer C Bn
World War II PH
Apr 5 1916
Feb 12 1959
Rose K Siegel
Dec 14 1910
Jun 4 1994
Joseph M Siegel
Aug 5 1909
Nov 1 1990
Esther Block Guld
Mar 21 1907
May 22 1992
Moe Guld
Oct 25 1897
Jun 23 1956
Fred D'Lugin
Feb 10 1906
Apr 13 1958
Rosa D'Lugin
1897-1988
William Nathan Kingoff
Nov 2 1930
Dec 21 2006
Emma Rose Kingoff Retchin
Mar 13 1929
Feb 19 1994
Raymond Retchin
Oct 20 1890
Jan 31 1975
Ida Sarah Cohen Retchin
Sep 23 1901
May 3 1979
Henrietta Helfant Neuwirth
Feb 5 1919
Jul 29 1967
Arnold Neuwirth
Oct 16 1912
Dec 31 1998
Eugene Neuwirth
1898-1962
Ruth Trucker Neuwirth
Feb 25 1919
Oct 2 1980
Marx Joseph Neuwirth
Nov 7 1916
Dec 26 1992
Anna Israel Shain
Feb 8 1895
Sep 29 1967
Nathan Shain
Died
May 15 1979
Age 86
Morris Kaminsky
Died
Sep 2 1935
Age 72 yrs
Jennie Kaminsky
Died
Jan 16 1941
Age 76 yrs
William J Kaminsky
Died
Jan 26 1950
Age 62 yrs
Dora Mae Kaminsky
Apr 18 1889
May 7 1960
Louis Abelovitz
Died
Jan 10 1930
Age 63 yrs
Sarah Miller
Wife of
I Miller
Died
Nov 22 1933
Israel Miller
Died
Jun 3 1942
Age 63 yrs
Molly Burke
Wife of
Morris Freedland
Died
Sep 20 1936
Age 47 yrs
Morris Freedland
Died
Dec 13 1955
Age 73 yrs
Morris Cohen
Died
Jul 22 1942
Age 71 yrs
Joseph Goldstein
Died
Dec 25 1928
Age 86 yrs
Lena Goldstein
Died
Sep 10 1950
Age 84 yrs
Annie Zuskin
Wife of
Samuel Rubin
Died
Sep 29 1956
Age 75 yrs
Samuel Rubin
Died
Oct 4 1939
Age 54 yrs
Nellie Lustig
Wife of
Alex Sandor Kosch
May 30 1881
Jul 3 1963
Alex Sandor Kosch
Oct 5 1878
Aug 15 1941
Sarah D'Lugin
1868-1943
Samuel D'Lugin
1859
Jan 27 1938
Benjamin Kingoff
Mar 18 1888
Mar 5 1968
Belle Kosch Kingoff
Sep 11 1902
Dec 26 1990
Rudolph Moses
Son of
Benjamin & Belle Kingoff
Dec 10 1924
Jul 22 1951
Sophia Loewenstein
Died
Oct 24 1945
Age 69 yrs
David Loewenstein
Died
Apr 27 1960
Age 92 yrs
Sadie Stadiem Block
1906-2000
Nathan Ellis Block
1903-1986
William Block
1874-1954
Joseph Manfred Block
Nov 20 1908
Sep 16 1992
Hannah Solomon Block
1913-2009
Charles Morris Block
1902-1978
Jennie Finger Finkelstein
Died
Aug 12 1971
Milton Allen Finkelstein
Jan 11 1917
Nov 13 1980
Annie Finkelstein Adelman
Dec 16 1929
Oct 26 2001
Katherine Popkin
Feb 24 1896
Oct 23 1958
Shirlee Davis Popkin
Jun 22 1926
Feb 16 2004
Lila Popkin
Jan 20 1932
Mar 17 1996
Alfred Bernard Popkin
Feb 27 1925
Oct 26 1990
Martin James Popkin
Apr 13 1933
Nov 26 1996
Double Stone
Alpert
Kenneth R Alpert
Nov 1 1913
Apr 21 1984
Horty F Alpert
Apr 8 1921
Apr 21 1984
Albert Mendel Schild
Oct 20 1904
Aug 14 1966
Fannie Simon Margolis
Died
May 26 1972
Age 84 yrs
Ruth G Peck
SKG1 US Navy
World War II
Mar 14 1924
Oct 24 2009
Abraham S Drapkin
North Carolina
2d Lieutenant US Army
World War II
Feb 12 1907
Mar 5 1967
Buddy Bernard Turner
May 25 1918
Dec 3 1967
Ida Wolpert Moskow
Jan 18 1898
Jan 27 1988
Hyman Moskow
Nov 29 1894
May 3 1968
Charlotte Moskow
Dec 22 1929
Aug 16 1970
Samuel Abraham Piken
Jun 3 1894
Jan 28 1974
Beatrice Levy Piken
Dec 19 1898
Nov 19 1986
Leon Blaustein
Mar 21 1919
Jul 29 1996
Blanche Piken Blaustein
Nov 14 1920
Jan 29 1998
Matthew Adam Hamelburg
Son of
Judy & Robert Hamelburg
Oct 7 1982
Oct 28 1982
Leon Stein
Feb 25 1923
Nov 20 2009
Milton Fleishman
Aug 6 1914
May 14 2002
Evelyn Helen Raskind
Aug 25 1915
May 10 2002
Emanuel Gellman
May 15 1923
Oct 15 2008
Ann Muriel Heck
Aug 2 1935
Apr 30 2009
Paul Aaron Liebeskind
Apr 2 1936
Aug 4 1991
Morris Chotiner
Jun 4 1910
Nov 30 1984
Evelyn Hirz Chotiner
Dec 16 1915
Jan 19 2008
William Laufer
Apr 13 1909
Oct 8 1979
Hertha Kasner Laufer
Jul 7 1911
Dec 23 1974
Marilyn Alper Laufer
Feb 21 1946
Nov 29 1998
Albert Morris Levine
Oct 29 1927
Sep 25 2005
Goldie K Levine
Sep 5 1900
Aug 9 1982
Julius Levine
Dec 3 1893
Sep 17 1964
Samuel Hartman
North Carolina
PFC US Army
World War II PH
Aug 5 1905
Aug 9 1968
Sarah L Goodman
Jul 5 1910
Jul 4 1965
Victor M Goodman
Jan 3 1909
Dec 31 1968
Rita Lynn Simon Silver
Apr 13 1945
Mar 11 1978
Barry Kenneth Popkin
Mar 24 1959
Aug 13 2003
Herschel Creeger
Mar 23 1914
Feb 26 1915
Henry
Son of
J & B Cohn
Mar 25 1906
Aug 7 1908
Norma Warshauer
Nov 14 1917
Mar 13 1921
Joseph Horowitz
Died
Oct 29 1943
K Horowitz
Died
Dec 5 1918
Minnie Hurwitz
Feb 6 1886
Feb 2 1919
Joseph Max Schwartz
Dec 25 1891
Oct 25 1918
Sylvia
Daughter of
J & E Margolis
May 12 1916
Oct 15 1918
Fannie Mosias
Wife of
Samuel Lefkowitz
Apr 15 1891
Oct 7 1918
Rose Wolfe
Died
Oct 5 1918
Age 23 yrs
Etka Renik
Feb 27 1876
Dec 31 1917
Lillian Simon
1906-1961
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