Many of the former “worker’s” cemeteries were for members of the American socialist party, which did not have the longevity that it expected and the cemeteries were later sold to Jewish groups. This happened in Fairfield and appears to have happened in Norwalk also. . The plot map for St. John’s goes right up to the river embankment. The cemetery that you are referring to is not behind St. John’s, but next to it. There is a cemetery in the front and then Beth Israel of Westport now owns the plot area behind the front one. There is also a smaller cemetery belonging to the synogogue on East Avenue across the street.

The real question is where is the almshouse cemetery? Another Jewish cemetery was also listed in Hale as not being found. Maybe that’s the one that you are thinking of.

And I was also once told by an elderly Jewish gentleman who has since died that there was a Jewish workers’ cemetery that once existed behind St. John Cemetery on Riverside Avenue, but that the records have been completely lost and the land used in the present as different Jewish cemetery, so that no one really knows whether the previous workers’ cemetery ever really existed at all. I think it would be exicting to find out whether that workers’ cemetery rumor is true as well.