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Hill Section, Golden Hill Cemetery

Jefferson County

The West Side Benevolent Society, an independent Jewish mutual aid society, established the Golden Hill Cemetery in 1908.

A black and white photo of a row of headstones and leafless trees in the background.

Hill Section, Golden Hill Cemetery

The Hill Section, along the northern edge of the property, was reserved for indigent Jews buried at community expense, suicides (restricted from the main portion of the cemetery according to Jewish custom), and tuberculosis patients from the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society (JCRS) sanitarium and hospital.  Most of those interred in the Hill Section were tuberculosis victims.