United Hebrew Cemetery Association

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(22) receipt books of the Rose Hill Cemetery Association showing payments for grave sites. The payments were made to the United Hebrew Cemetery Assn.

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Records for Emanuel Cemetery including internment permits and sales information, burial rights sales, cemetery deeds, and cemetery endowment records. Also includes a folder on the Hebrew Cemetery Associations sales to the city of Denver.

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The item is a United Hebrew Cemetery Association certificate indicating that Jacob Shames and his wife and unmarried children are entitled to a burial plot in Rose Hill Cemetery.

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The item is a United Hebrew Cemetery Association certificate indicating that Michael Shames and his wife and unmarried children are entitled to a burial plot in Rose Hill Cemetery.

Abstract Michael (Michel) Shames, the son of Rifka and Isaac Leib Milstein Shames, was a colonist at the failed agricultural colony at Cotopaxi, Colorado (1882-1884). He married Frieda Raizel, and they had three children: Esther, Sarah, and Jacob (Yankel, 1885-1950). Rose Hill Cemetery was created as a burial place for the Orthodox Jews of Denver in 1891. It was organized by the United Hebrew Cemetery Association and was located in Commerce City, Colorado, when burials were stopped in the older...