The last lines show that the seller, Josiah Barber, appeared before the recorder on August 6, 1840 and the deed was recorded the next day, August 7, 1840. As only a few deeds were recorded each day, we see it as received late Thursday afternoon and recorded the next morning, Friday August 7.

The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History [ link to entry ] notes that the first interment was within a month of the purchase of the land. That may refer to the day the Israelitic Society voted to buy the land or when it contracted with Josiah Barber. Our view is that Barber had agreed to the sale in July, but would not record the sale until he had been paid in full. Imagine the tension when, to allow Kahnweiler to be buried on Friday, before the Sabbath, the funds due Barber had to be collected and brought to him at his office on Pearl Street (today West 25th Street) by Thursday afternoon. That they succeeded is a matter of record. The deed was recorded and Alexander Kahnweiler was interred on the same day, Friday August 7, 1840.

August 7, 1840, the day of the first Jewish burial in Cleveland, was a day of great anxiety and much success, one to be long remembered.