Mapping Jewish Charleston

1 Judah P. Benjamin

King Street

2 Cardozo Family

8 Courthouse Square

3 Cohen Family

Broad Street

4 Mordecai Cohen

119 Broad Street

5 Mordecai Cohen

97 Broad Street

6 Philip M. Cohen

63 Broad Street

7 Coming Street Cemetery

189 Coming Street

8 Dacosta Cemetery

55 Amherst Street

9 Dr. Jacob Canter DeLaMotta

106 Broad Street

10 Dr. Jacob Canter DeLaMotta

Logan Street

11 Morris Goldsmith

Magazine Street

12 Harby Cemetery

25 Hanover Street

13 Henry Jefferson Harby

Church Street

14 Isaac Harby

100 Tradd Street

15 Nathan Hart

220 King Street

16 Hebrew Orphan Society

88 Broad Street

17 Hertz Family

King Street

18 Myer Jacobs

Calhoun Street

19 Jewish Auctioneers

East Bay Street at Vendue Range

20 Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

90 Hasell Street

21 Benjamin D. Lazarus

Tradd Street

22 Joshua Lazarus

East Bay Street

23 Marks Lazarus

109 Tradd Street

24 Rachel DeTorres Benjamin Lazarus

229 King Street

25 Elias & Lyon Levy

Atlantic Street

26 Jacob C. Levy

301 East Bay Street

27 Mary Ann Suares Levy

King Street

28 David Lopez, Jr.

Logan Street

29 Abraham Moïse II

College Street

30 Theodore Sidney Moïse

222 (today 234) King Street.

31 Moses Cohen Mordecai

69 Meeting Street

32 Isaiah Moses

King Street

33 Raphael J. Moses

Beaufain Street

34 Abraham Ottolengui

Pinckney Street

35 Gustavus Poznanski

387 King Street

36 Reformed Society Of Israelites

Meeting Street

37 Benjamin A. Rodriguez

Corner of Meeting and Hasell Streets

38 Shearit Israel Synagogue

34 Wentworth Street

39 Judith Suares

King Street

40 Samuel Valentine

Clifford Street

41 Isaac And Sarah Woolf

King Street

42 Rachel Woolf

Orange Street

Harby Cemetery

25 Hanover Street

A private Jewish Cemetery

The origins of this cemetery are obscure. The land was purchased in 1798 by Henry Moses, Solomon Moses, Myer Derkheim, Samuel Hyams, Benjamin Tores, and Solomon Harby in trust “as a burial ground and place of interment” for them and their descendants “and also such other persons and persons professing Judaism”. Clauses stipulated that it had to be held in perpetuity by the descendants of the trustees and could never be sold; and that descendants could not be refused burial there. Some burials took place here into the late 19th century, with many Harby family members among them, including Caroline de Litchfield Harby, a daughter of Solomon Harby. Like the DaCosta Cemetery, also on Hanover Street, the Harby Cemetery was seized by the City of Charleston in 1939 for failure to pay an assessment levied on all property owners along the street to pay for paving it.

For more information see The old Jewish cemeteries at Charleston, S.C. by Barnett A. Elzas.

For more information on the Harby and DaCosta Cemeteries see the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, Cemeteries & Memorial Plaques.