Mount Auburn Cemetery

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33 School St Boston. Jany. 8/61 Mr. Nath^l D. Sawin.

Dear Sir, Please send or leave word at my office, "by return of Mail," the name of the parents of a stillborn child interred in your lot no. 2911, in Mt Auburn, April 13, 1860.

We are making up the register of internments for the year, with the index, and the order for interment, signed by yourself, does not give this information, which is necessary to complete the record. My attention was called to it when making up the register for that month, but it had since escaped my recollection. There need be no feeling of delicacy in giving us information for the official record of facts.

Your reply as soon as convenient after getting this will oblige.

Yours truly A.J. Coolidge Secretary of Mt Auburn

33 School St Boston Jany. 8. 1861

Mr E. N. Coburn

Dear Sir, Will you please ascertain for me, if you do not know of your own knowledge, the name of the father or mother of a stillborn child which you buried at Mt Auburn on the 7^th day of April 1860, in the lot of Betsey Davis, No 183 on Larch Avenue. This name is not given in the order for interment, which is signed by C. Houghton. I should think, although it is hard to make it out. The order for interment should always give the ^^{name of the} parent of such child, if the child received no name, which is more generally the case.

Please reply by return of mail, as I am making up the index and am in haste to complete it.

A. J. Coolidge secretary of Mt Auburn

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Jany 17. [186]5

Messrs Shedd & Edson

Gentlemen,

Please send me tomorrow the inside measures to lots 3498 (Cutter) 3517 (Fray) 3518 & 3519 (Thompsons) on Laurel Av^e. I send the plans, on which I wish ^^you to mark the length of inside lines, & the middle ordinates, from which I can make deeds.

Send me also the same for lot 1463, on Thistle Path (Mrs Hemenway's) which contains 790 sq. ft.-

It is laid down on plan, but the exterior measures are given, so as to be no guide for me in describing.-

I shall have to ask you to send to Mt Auburn & survey some of the irregular lots:- [?]} [?]} each other}

Among these I wish

3495	rear of 179 Walnut Av.	contents	168f.
3516	rear of 179 Walnut Av.	contents	65f
3508	rear of 2204 Walnut Av.	contents	87f.
3505	Adams - Elm Av.	contents	203f
3511	Sturges - Anemone P.	contents	370f
3512	Hill - Walnut Av	contents	200f
3513	Timson - Walnut Av	contents	200f
3514	Elliott -Walnut Av	contents	300f
3515	Ames - Walnut Av	contents	300f
3484	Prescott Larch Av	contents	1846f
3499	Fines - Dianthus P.	contents	133f

Remember, I wish the inside measures.

There will doubtless be other irregular ones which I shall wish to [?]. Inform me where you will send out & I will [?] the rest ready.

Yours respy

A.J. Coolidge

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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16 Pemberton Square

June 9^th [186]8

Dear Sir: --

Please enter upon your repair book the following lots:

Lot 21 --	Heirs Edwd A. Raymond		300. --
" 1530 --	Mary Wallack (corp int r.)	G.	200.
" 1363 --	Geo. B. Upton	G.	500
" 3772 --	Sarah A. De Gruske	G.	150

The following I think have been given you before. --

454 --	Isaiah Atkins	G.	475.
596 --	Charles Torrey	G.	425
3648 --	Eliza Pallier (corp. in tr.)	G.	125.
2144 --	John Woods	G.	350.
3281 --	Edwin Booth	G.	550
659 --	Otis Fairbanks	G.	350 --

Mr Upton was out last Sunday, & says he noticed that the lot next to his was cut [so?], but his was not. --

Truly yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

Capt. D.L. Winsor Sup^t.

16 Pemberton Square

June 18^th [186]8

Dear Sir: -

Please report upon lot 2887, Larch Av. 60 ft - belonging to Mrs Anna R. Goodwin for perpetual repair -- also state what repairs will cost if any are first needed. --

Mr Thos. Richardson is very anxious about the price of land -- 200 feet more or less on the northerly side of the Alger lot -- at the end of Elm Av -- Somebody has reported to him that it has been sold; but I told him I thought not. He is in the Alger family, & wishes to purchase it --

Will you survey it up to the Alger line, & let him know through me how much it contains --

Truly yours,

A. J. Coolidge

Capt. D. L. Winsor

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Trustees Octo. 3. 1864. continued _

1089

Mrs Ann Dodd of Boston, widow of James Dodd, deceased, late proprietor of lot numbered 1089, to represent said lot: _

1448

Mrs Charlotte W. Snow of Boston, widow of Daniel F. Snow, deceased, late proprietor of lot numbered 1448, to represent said lot: _

2369

Mrs Mary S. Davenport of Newton, widow of Sam^l D. Davenport, deceased, late proprietor of lot numbered 2369, to represent said lot: _

2401

Samuel Smith, of Boston, son in law of Samuel Aspinwall, deceased, late proprietor of lot numbered 2401, to represent said lot: _

3412

Ann Maria Baxter, of Boston, daughter of Nancy Baxter, deceased late proprietor of lot numbered 3412, to represent said lot.

Petition for compensation for Derrick _

A petition was presented from Thomas J. Bayley asking payment for a derrick which had been left in Mount Auburn several years since, and which he claimed had been used and worn out in the service of the Corporation, _

And the same was referred to Mr Cheever to inquire and report thereon.

Question [whether sale should be completed]

The Secretary stated that a deed had been ordered by the Treasurer for lot numbered 3484 on Larch Avenue,