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Cemetery Identification
Cemetery ID: USA-02371
Cemetery Name: Rodef Sholem Cemetery
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Cemetery Location
Country: USA
State:Pennsylvania
City: Spring Township
Street: Water Street
Cemetery Details
Number of Burials: 50
Number of Photographs: 47
Cemetery Description: Abraham Sussman, a Bellefonte businessman, gave 1/4 acre of land for a cemetery on this site in 1872. The cemetery association was incorporated about 1874. Sussman left $500.00 in trust for the cemetery upon his death in 1878. Nathan Krauss oversaw the cleanup of this cemetery after World War II, and arranged for trust fund income. Today the cemetery is overseen by Jeffrey Krauss and maintained with funding from the Jewish Community Center of Bellefonte and State College, PA. Spring Township, Centre County, PA
Data last updated: 12/29/2008

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