1864-04-29_WinsortoCrocker1_1831_016_001_002-002

Letter from Captn. D. L. Winsor
on charges for Internment
Apr. 29, 1864

Mount Auburn Cemetery.

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Mount Auburn,April 29, 1864

Uriel Crocker Esqr.

D^r Sir,

You asked me to
give you my figures in regard to raising
the charges in the funeral department
of Mount Auburn Cemetery.

For digging a Grave & [recording?].	4.00 5.00
" " Child "	3 00
For Opening a tomb & Closing under 10 years, 3.25	4 00
Charges at Recieving tomb At discretion of Superintendent same as before	20. 00
For building a brick grave with internment	18.00 20.00

The labour on Opening & closing an underground ^tomb
& sodding up again has never paid the actual
expense at the former rates, and the above
ground tombs give a sighs of trouble to get them
open as the Locks become badly rusted. The
price of materials for Brick Graves has
doubled since I have been here, and If