Mount Auburn Cemetery

I, Elizabeth A. Crowley of Holliston, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, (formerly Elizabeth A. Fitzpatrick) married woman, on oath declare that my brother, Matthew Fitzpatrick, late of Boston, deceased, the proprietor of lot numbered twenty six hundred and twenty four (2624) in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, situated in the rear of lot numbered 964 Fir Avenue, was killed at the battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia, on the 21^st day of October, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty one; that he was never married, and left no father nor mother and no brother nor sister other than myself; and that he made no disposition of said lot by will -- that I am his sole heir at law, and as such am entitled to be recorded as the proprietor of said lot. --

State of Massachusetts Middlesex Js. Holliston Sept^r 1864. There personally appeared the above-named Elizabeth A. Crowley and made oath that the above statement by her subscribed is true;

Justice of the Peace

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Trustees _ Feby. 20, 1865 _

Representatives _

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Isaac W. Danforth of Cambridge, son of Isaac Danforth, late proprietor of lot numbered nine hundred and forty four to represent said lot:

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M. Denman Ross of Boston, the son-in law of Henry S. Waldo, deceased, late proprietor of lots numbered seventeen hundred and fifty one and twenty seven hundred and thirty six, to represent said lots.

Adjourned Attest Austin J. Coolidge, Secretary.

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Trustees _ March 6, 1865.

The regular monthly meeting of the Trustees was held on Monday March 6, 1865, at 11 o'clock A.M. _

There were present the President and Messrs Adams, Austin, ^^Bowditch, Cheever, Little, Livermore, Lovejoy, Norcross, Rand and Sleeper. _

The record of the last meeting was read. _

Com. to consider compensation ask further time _

Mr Little for the Finance Committee requested further time to consider the subject of salaries, referred to that Committee.

Public Mon^t to Heroes fallen in present war _

The President submitted a model of a public monument in memory of the heroes who have fallen in the present war for the preservation of the Union, which he proposed should be erected in the Cemetery, to be paid for either out of the surplus funds of the Corporation, or by obtaining subscriptions for the same, as the Trustees