Mount Auburn Cemetery

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June 15, [18]91

esrrs Bowkin Torrey & Co 3851_Blake

Foundation 1-6x1-0 4 50

PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

June 15, [18]91

esrrs Bowkin Torrey & Co 5216^Blake

Foundation and setting stone ^$5 70

PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

186

#791-S

June 16, 1891.

John F. Lennon, Esq.,

Providence, R.I.

Dear Sir: -

Your note is received. The present need of the lot is to have the usual care which consists of cutting the grass and keeping the lot tidy, In the Fall the whole should be regraded and sodded and the stone in the lot cleaned. The fence needs to be painted, but I would suggest that the lot would be improved by removing it as very many of our proprietors are now doing. This can be done, the four posts which mark the boundaries recut and the number of the lot cut for the old material.

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.

#1024-S

June 16, 1891.

D. Babcock, Esq.,

#162 W. Canton St., Boston.

Dear Sir: -

I do not know of any method by which the stain on the door of your tomb can be removed.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

187

#933-S

June 16, 1891.

A.F. Pessenden, Esq.,

#70, Kilby St., Boston.

Dear Sir: -

I regret very much that you found your lot looking badly. When marble is cleaned the sand and water make a line around the stone, but if the grass is at all vigorous it disappears in a few days.

It appears to me that the soil on your lot is exhausted and that regrading is needed, but there is too much shade there for grass to do well.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

188

June 18 [189]1

Mrs. H.M. Kendall

Dear Madam;

By vote of the Trustees I have been instructed to do no work on any lot until all charges for previous years have been paid, and as there are charges standing against lot 1630 (work ordered by Mrs. Whiting and [Mrs?]. A.H. Jacobs) nothing has been done in the way of care this season. On receipt of amount standing your order will have attention. Yours Resp'y

[J.W. Lovering?]

June 18 [189]1

W^m L. Whittemore Esq.

Dear Sir;

It is now too late in the season for planting myrtle on the grave of Benj. F. Whittemore but will have attention early this autumn. The price of myrtle grases has been raised to twelve dollars.

Yours Resp'y.

J.W. Lovering Sup't. per F.A.B.

189

June 18 [18]91

iss Jane Brown 4029^Wilson

Foundation & Setting ^$10 55

B/D.

June 18 [18]91

rs. Mary E. Pond 4078

Sodding three graves & borders & repairing sod 8 00

Cleaning monument & headstone 5 00

Cleaning & resetting two headstones 2 50

15 50

B/.D.

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Lot #156

Date of Int. Name Age

Nov 18, 1841 Sophia A Bond 30 yrs

May 26, 1842 George Bond 54

Oct 30, 1846 Gertrude Bond 7 mos

Sep 6, 1849 Infant [G?] W Bond

Dec 24, 1851 Ann Sigourney Bond 6 6

Aug 31, 1852 Joseph May Bond 5 9

Sep 7, 1852 James G Bond

May 19, 1864 Henry May Bond 28 1 11

Feb 16, 1868 Ann Sigourney Bond 78 1 13

Feb 21, 1869 Maria Jackson Bond 43 4 19

Oct 13, 1877 Charles Edward Bond 28 4 21

Oct 18, 1878 Sarah Wight Bond 55 16 5

Mar 5, 1884 Annie Eliza Bond 54 6 28.

Lot #158

Dec 13, 1887 George Gorham Bond 25 4 10

Lot #1797

Aug 26, 1850 Maria R.C.C. Edes 41

Nov 21, 1850 Henry May

May 5, 1856 Catherine C.M. Edes 73

July 5, 1861 Maria R. May 75 2

Mar 14, 1865 Henry K. May 84 9 22

July 6, 1869 Mary Davenport May 75 10 22

Oct 25, 1871 George W.B. Edes 21 4 3

Nov 28, 1873 Charlotte A. May 78 10

Apl 7, 1876 Maria C. Edes 40 3 7

Mch 16, 1881 Henry F. Edes 72 7

Nov 30, 1883 Mary L. Edes 69 6 11

Jan 22, 1884 Frank A. May 29 8 17

Jan 18, 1889 Edward T. May 64

Jun 14, 1890 Henry Ware Edes 56 5 17.

191

June 18, 1891.

George Wm. Bond, Esq.,

Jamaica Plain.

Dear Sir: -

As requested I herewith send you the record of interments in the Bond and Edes lots. The locations of the graves have been kept since 1876 only, and the enclosed tracing is therefor not complet. If additional information is needed a regular survey and plan of the locations of the headstones and myrtle graves can be made, which will cost eight or ten dollars.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

192

#3280-gr. 172-S

June 16, 1891.

Miss M.N. Sanborn,

#3 Ranlett Pl., Roxbury.

Dear Madam: -

The cost of cleaning the headstone at grave #172 St. Matthew lot will be $3.00 and of resetting it $2.00. The cost of resodding the grave will be $2.50.

Respectfully yours,

[Supt?]

#1509-S

June 18, 1891.

Miss Margaret Creely,

#31 Hawthorn St., Cambridge.

Dear Madam: -

The cost of raising and resodding the sunken plaue in your lot will be $5.00. The work cannot be done until Fall.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

193

#3706-S

June 18, 1891.

W.H.T. Read, Esq.,

#141 Federal St., Boston.

Dear Sir: -

I have examined the Bowers lot as desired, the granite is a good deal out of place. The cost of resetting and releading the joints will be $36.00. The sod is also in poor condition and if the lot is to be put in good order it should be regraded, enriched and resodded, the expense of which will be $37.50.

The vase and chair were rusty and were removed to our yard as such things are when they get unsightly. They are marked with the number of the lot from which they are taken.

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.

194

#928-L.

June 20th. 1891.

Rev. A.E. Johnson,

#256 County St., New Bedford, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

On the orders for interment it is stated that John Hartshorn who was buried in lot #1328, died March 2, 1865; that Matilda Pickens Hartshorn who was buried in lot #928 died May 11, 1864, but the date of Louisa F.P. Hartshorn who was buried in lot #928 Jan'y. 8, 1861, is not given.

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.

#4343-L.

June 19th. 1891.

J.S. Ellis, Esq.,

Bourne, Mass.

Dear Sir: -

Having the lots of the Corporation to sell I cannot act as the agent of any proprietor in disposing of his lot.

Respectfully yours,

Sup't.