2019.045.001

A spiral bound book containing the history, dates, death and burials, contact information for the cemetery. Online searching of the cemetery is described, along with the procedures followed for compiling this history. Procedures included mapping, stone cleaning, stone transcription, male/female historical burial rules and the recording of research data on 'Find a Grave' and 'JOWBR'. A graph of early Lawrence Jewish marriages is provided
The book contains a listing of names of the buried, along with the location of their burial. Not all graves have stones, and information on the stone can be in Hebrew, English, or both. A cemetery layout is provided
The cemetery is currently made up of six sections: Sons of Israel, Tifereth Anshai Sfard, Ansha Sholum, Workmen's Circle, Jewish War Veterans and Essex County Lodge. - all sections are still active. At the time of the 1918 influenza pandemic there were four adjacent cemeteries: the Sons of Israel Cemetery, the Independent Lodge Cemetery, The Workmen's Circle Cemetery, and the Essex County Lodge Cemetery.
The veteran's section was set aside at the end of WWII and contains mainly WWII veterans, but there are WWI and Korean War veterans.
The book describes the three calendar systems used to identify dates on gravestones - Hebrew, Gregorian, Julian (for Russians)
A histogram of deaths during the 1918 influenza epidemic is provided.
The book contains profiles of a few people that have monuments in the cemetery: Robert Goldberg by Linda Siegenthaler, Samuel Robert Goldberg, Pvt. Samuel A. Kaplan by Marc Laplante, Rabbi Israel Marcus, Sgt. Alfred Phillip Marshall, Pvt. Joseph Ravich by Marc Laplante, Martin Schlau and Family, Davis Shuman by Linda Siegenthaler, Pvt. Harry Spritz, PFC Edward Hale Tourocke,