Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Jany. 31. 5 [1865]

Philander Ames Esq^r Stoneham Mass.

Dear Sir,

Yourself and Mr Chas. D. Elliott of Cambridge purchased two lots in September on Trefoil Path, and we are ignorant of your intentions as to how to divide the lots between you. I looked in a Cambridge Directory for Mr Elliott and did not find his name. I live there myself, but do not know him. As there are four post offices in Cambridge, I prefer to address you my inquiry.

The sketch of the lots, as nearly as I can give it from the dimensions sent me is represented by the following figure: --

[diagram: measurements & orientation]

It is fairly to be presumed that your division line will not run east and west, as that gives you two long and narrow lots. If it runs north and south, of course one takes the front and one the rear.

Will you please ^^state if you divide by lines running north and south, which of you takes the east and which the west part: or how you divide in any case. --

Your speedy reply will oblige.

Yours Resp.y

A.J. Coolidge Secretary.

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Voted that ^$7000 be appropriated for that purpose.

Representatives, Lots Nos. Voted _ That Representatives be designated for Lots as follows: _

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66	√	Lillie C. Bowditch	Weymouth	Daughter
196	√	Faoline E. Stearns	Nashville, T	Grand-dau.
374	√	Abbie W. Hodges	Medford	Daughter
1075	√	Florence D. Eustis	Springfield	Daughter
1196	√	Olive L. Standish	Boston	Widow
1281	√	Robert W. Pratt	Boston	Son
1435	√	Samuel C. Bigelow	San Francisco	Son
1547	√	Samuel W. Clifford	Boston	Son
2157	√	Seth C. Chandler	Cambridge	Son
2167	√	Louis D. Starbird	Malden	Son
2209	√	Susan C. Warren	Boston	Widow.
2243	√	Daniel S. Pratt	Wellesley Hills	Son
2563	√	S. Otis Bartlett	Boston	Son
2694	√	Lydia A. Easter	Boston	Daughter
2988	√	Nellie E. Halford	Stoneham	Daughter
3030	√	Joseph T. Brown	Boston	Son
3384	√	E.A. Frances Fitch	Boston	Widow
4298	√	Alonzo Priest	Quincy	Son
4837	√	Catherine E. Draper	W. Somerville	Daughter
4918	√	Louisa D. Bullard	Cambridge	Daughter

Contracts Perpetual Care. The Committee on Lots recommended the following Contracts for perpetual care, all of which were approved by the Board: _