Beni Israel Cemetery, also known as Cemetery Beni Israel and today known as B'nai Israel Cemetery,[2] is an historic Jewish cemetery located at 1301 E. 2100 Road in Eudora, Douglas County, Kansas. It was founded in 1858 by German and Polish Jews who were a part of the German Immigrant Settlement Company from Chicago that had founded Eudora in 1856. One-year-old Isaac Cohn who died September 5, 1858, was the first person buried in the cemetery. He was the son of Asher Cohn (1828–1890), an immigrant businessman from Lubawa, Poland who founded a general store in Eudora ca. 1857[3] and who is also buried here with his wife Sarah. After 1928, burials ceased for decades until 1978 when responsibility for the cemetery was taken on by the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation of nearby Lawrence.[4]
^Note: Beni Israel (meaning Sons of Israel) is the historic name which appears in the NRHP listing as well as on the bronze marker at the cemetery entrance. The Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation on its website, however calls it by the more contemporary name B'nai Israel Cemetery
