Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Trustees. December 11, 1872

Contracts for perp. Rep. with G. of Lots N^os 1084 1374 2730 2831 & 3318

The Secretary having stated that the Committee on Lots had recommended the Trustees to guaranty the perpetual repair of Lot N^o 1084 on Fir Avenue, belonging to M^rs David Nevins, Jr., for Five hundred and fifty dollars; – of Lot N^o 1374 on Oak Avenue, late of Ezra S. Gannett, D. D. deceased, for Five hundred and fifty dollars; – of Lot N^o 2730 on Spruce Avenue late of Theodore Chase deceased, for Five hundred and fifty dollars; – of Lot N^o 2831 on Lavender Path, late of Isaac D. Brewer, deceased, for Six hundred dollars; – and of Lot N^o 3318 on Lime Avenue late of M^rs Mary Ann S. Easton, deceased for Four hundred and seventy=five dollars; it was

Voted, – that the above named contracts be severally concurred in on the part of this Board.

Upon the petitions of the parties in interest representatives were designated for Lots as follows; viz; –

555 Martha M. Willard of Brighton, Daughter of Emery Willard, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Five hundred & fifty=five.

909 Edward G. Robinson of Anna, Illinois, Son of Henry Robinson, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Nine hundred and nine.

3391 Elizabeth A. Bowman of Cambridge, Daughter of Francis Bowman deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty=three hundred & ninety=one.

3624 Charles B. Edgerly of Cambridge, Son of John S. Edgerly, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Thirty=six hundred & twenty=four.

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Trustees. April 9^t, 1873.

Subject recommitted with instructions

of the Board, – it was, on motion by M^r Snow,

Voted, – that the subject be re=committed to the Committee on Interments, with full powers to take such action in the premises as they may deem expedient; reporting their action to this Board with a statement of the facts on which it is based.

Monthly Statement of Sales of Lots accepted and placed on file.

A statement of the sales of Lots effected by the Superintendent from March 12, 1873 to date, so far as approved by the Committee on Lots having been submitted and read by the Secretary, it was

Voted, – that said statement be accepted and placed on file.

Contract for perp. Rep. with G., of Lot 3391

The Secretary having stated that the Committee on Lots had recommended the Trustees to guaranty the perpetual repair of Lot N^o 3391 on Mistletoe Path represented by Miss Elizabeth A. Bowman, for the sum of Five hundred dollars, it was

Voted, – that the aforesaid contract be concurred in on the part of this Board.

Jonathan H. Cheney. Lot 829 App^t for rep.

A petition for the appointment of Franklin N. Thatcher of Boston, son=in=law of Jonathan H. Cheney, deceased, as representative of the Lot formerly owned by said Cheney (N^o 829), signed by Sarah M. Train and Eunice H. Thatcher ^^his daughters, and accompanied by a letter from M^r Charles R. Train stating that M^r J. Homer Cheney, the only son of the deceased wished to represent the Lot himself and declined to write in the petition aforesaid, having been laid before the Board by the Secretary, on motion of M^r Choate, it was

Voted, – that the Secretary be instructed to forward