80
Subbotniki
known to be buried at
Home of Peace Memorial Park
4334
Whittier
Blvd, Los Angeles,
CA — Phone:
323-261-6135
by Bill Aldacushion
(4/17/2005), with Andrei Conovaloff
Home
of
Peace Memorial Park is located where the the Santa Ana (I-5)
and Long Beach (710) Freeways meet in East Lost Angeles. Entrance is
from Whittier Blvd. Click on the map to enlarge it. It's next to 2
other cemeteries. You can easily see it going south on the Long Beach
Freeway.Records for 80 Subbotniki buried in this cemetery were extracted from a CD produced by Margaret Jayred Schulz for the Southern California Genealogy Society in February 1998. The data shows name, grave location, age, gender, place & dates of birth & death, burial date, occupation, and mortuary comments.
Though there is a "Subotnick" section, only 32 of the 80 (40%) are buried in it. All but 19 were born in Russia. 11 were children. All but 4 died in or near Los Angeles. The earliest born were in 1855. The first burial shown was in 1911, and the last was my uncle John buried in 1983. And 8 appear to be buried with charity, benevolence.
The 23 surname spellings listed represent 15 Subbotniki surnames, with 4 being changed from the Russian:
| Aldacushion Andrews (= Androff) Androff Androw Bagdanov |
Bagdanoff Bogdanoff Druginin Hall (= Holovachoff) Moiseve |
Moisser (= Moiseve) Patapoff Pivaroff Pivavaroff Pivovorof |
Plujnkoff Pluss (= Plujnkoff ) Potopoff Povovarof Slivkoff |
Urenn Urkov Uroff |
Schulz reports:
In 1855 The Hebrew Benevolent
Society of Los Angeles purchased land
near the present Chavez Ravine*
to be used for a cemetery. No one is
sure exactly
where the old burial ground was located. However, according to the
records, the first
burial occurred in 1858. In 1891 the Home of Peace Society was founded
by Jewish women of
Los Angeles for the purpose of caring for and maintaining the property.
In 1902 the
present location on Whittier Blvd. was purchased by B’nai B’rith
Congregation. The 360
graves were removed from the old cite to the new grounds between that
time and
1910. The site was originally called Home of Peace Cemetery, and later
the name was
changed to Home of Peace Memorial Park.
Further research reveals:
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies — Cemetery Project
Home of Peace Memorial Park: Home
of Peace (new) Cemetery (aka Hills of Eternity Cemetery). Opened in
current location in 1902, this original Jewish cemetery was founded in
1855. Approximately 50,000 burials by 2000, the site is owned and
operated by Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Congregation B'nai B'rith). Home
of Peace is the successor to the first Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles
originally founded as the cemetery of the Hebrew Benevolent Society in
1855 in Chavez Ravine*, it
was moved to its current location in 1902. The remains of the 360 Jews
buried in the old cemetery were moved between 1902 and 1910. The
principals who started the Hebrew Benevolent Society Burial Ground were
the same people who started Congregation B'nai B'rith that took over
the cemetery in 1902. About 1870, Jewish women maintained the Hebrew
Benevolent Society Burial Ground and called themselves the Home of
Peace Society.
* Note
from
the USC Cemetery Archive: "a Jewish cemetery, perhaps with the
name 'Home of Peace' began in 1854 on what has been described as
reservoir land, apparently in Elysian Park where the Armory is
located." Also, Chavez Ravine is a hill north of downtown Los
Angeles on which the LA baseball stadium was built.
Konnoff & Moiseve Genealogy Page
My Great-Great Grandfather
Stephan Ivanovich Moiseve ( 1855 to 10/11/34) [#36] and his wife Irina
Fedotovna Lidyeff [#34]
(4/20/1855 to 11/30/39) emigrated from Tbilsi Russia. Originally, they
lived in Petrograd. They settled in Los Angeles and lived at 1619 East
4th Street; they are buried in the Home of Peace Cemetery. ...
Tourists often visit Home of Peace Memorial Park to find the graves of famous Jewish actors, movie mogols, and politicians, including 2 of the "The 3 Stooges", and 3 of the Warner Brothers. Over 400 internments are listed at Find A Grave.com.