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The Jonesboro Jewish community was a split between Reform and Orthodox. Lewis Sachs, an Orthodox Jew, disliked the Reform Jewish Cemetery's permission to bury non-Jewish spouses. Therefore, he purchased a plot of land next to the ReformTemple Israel cemetery for use as an Orthodox cemetery but only Lewis Sachs and eight of his family members were ever buried in the Orthodox cemetery.
Data provided courtesy of Lynn Franklin and Bob Sweeney's "Southern Jewish Databases and Cemetery Listings" Please see their site for headstone photos, additional cemetery information and other southern Jewish databases at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ssjdb/ and choose the appropriate cemetery.
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