Founded by Beth El Jacob, Children of Israel, and Tifereth Israel synagogues. Woodland Ave., 50312. The 1859 cemetery has eighty graves. Located next to Gilbert Cemetery. The cemetery, located at the SE corner of Jefferson and Van Ness streets in North Ottumwa, dates from about 1880.
Some stones are illegible.
The cemetery is owned privately by the congregation and managed by the Ottumwa Cemetery Association. Only fifteen Jews remain in Ottumwa as of 1998, most quite elderly. From Cemeteries of the US Deborah M. Burek, ed. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488. SC-2626 for Centennial Historic Sketches of Sioux City Jewry.