The Temple of Israel Congregation was made up of German Jews who had immigrated to Wilmington around 1840 and had become well established in the city. The Jewish Reform cemetery is a part of the Oakdale cemetery and is encircled with a fence ornamented with a Star of David.
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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