Mount Auburn Cemetery

Nov. 21, [186]5

Mrs Jesse Knopp 249 Hanover St.

D^r - Madam,

Please inform me if your husband is deceased. If so, when he died, & where he was interred: as I do not find his interment anywhere on our records, although he was proprietor of lot no. 298 Larch Ave. I see your name instead of his has been in the Directory since 1863.

If he is living, please state where he resides.

Respectfully yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

P.S. I am making up for press a new catalogue of lots & proprietors.

Nov. 22 [186]5

Mrs John Southwick,

Dear Madam,

Mr John Southwick (whom I suppose to have been your husband) purchased a lot in the Cemetery in 1840. I see that the Charlestown Directory ^^{for 1860} puts down Mrs John Southwick of [?] Winthrop St. & a John Southwick (whom I have supposed might be your son) of the U.S.N. as boarding at 2 Sex[?] St.

We have no record of the death or interment of the proprietor of this lot.

We are making a new catalogue, & if you can give me the requisite information you will oblige.

Yours Respectfully

A.J. Coolidge Secretary

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Before any action was taken upon either of the foregoing applications, on motion of Mr Rand the following resolution was adopted: _

New convey^ce of lots reconv^d to be divided to be only by Quitclaim deed _

"That hereafter, whenever a lot shall be conveyed to the Corporation for the purpose of dividing or of conveying the same at the request or for the benefit of the party conveying said lot, the new conveyance shall be only by quitclaim deed." _

It was then voted,

That the several applications of the Lithgow heirs, and of Geo. Rice & Henry Lincoln be granted, the new conveyances to be made under the rule just adopted.

Representation of Lots _

Upon the petition of the parties in interest representatives were designated for the several lots in connection with which they are named, as follows: _

16 Samuel W. Swett of W. Roxbury, Ex^or under will of Samuel Swett, dec^d propr. of lot numbered 16:

297 Thomas Grieves of E. Cambridge, Trustee under will of Samuel Salisbury, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 297;

298 Eunice T. Knapp of Boston, widow of Jesse Knapp, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 298

403 Mary E. Whitcomb of Boston, widow of Levi Whitcomb, dec^d prop^r of lot numbered 403;