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Eva Rose Harpel
Aug 4, 1928
Av 18 5688
her headstone has a very odd inscription in English "where she belongs". This is a small flat "footstone" at the base of her husband's stone. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227140306/eva-rose-harpel (West Roxbury)
To fully interpret this stone and inscription we have to see her husband's grave. This is a large standing stone with lots of info in Hebrew and English. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134137237/jacob-harpel (West Roxbury)
Further research has shown that she has her own grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/237610348/eva-harpel (Woburn MA)
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theory to put all this together
- * Eva died in 1928 and was buried in Woburn
- * her husband (Jacob) died in 1965 and was buried in West Roxbury
- * the children (at least one of which was a Temple Israel member) were unhappy about their parents being buried apart, so they arranged to have a small stone marker adjacent to Jacob's grave, with the statement "where she belongs"
E. Ganin Aug 2026
