Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Sept 28 [188]8

Mrs. M. E. W. Jones

Dear Madam

I find on refering to my books that there is a bill of $6.00 due on lot 4315 for work done in 1884 and as the Trustees do not permit work done on lots where there are unpaid bills, the work recently ordered can not be done. As soon as the bill is paid the work will immediately be attended to.

Yours Resp'y J. W. Lovering Sup't per F. A. B.

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Sept. 29, 1888.

Harvey Carpenter, Esq., Milwaukee, Wis.

Dear Sir:-

Your note is received. I find that in order to raise the graves the myrtle and lilies will have to be removed and reset. The cost will be $7.00. There are two stones that need to be plumbed the cost will be $2.00

Respectfully yours,

Supt.

March 29 5 [1865]

Henry Gassett Esq

My dear Sir,

I have laid the subject of the perpetual care of your lot, No 2113, before the Com^ee on Lots, for a revision of their opinion, after obtaining from the Sup.^t a new report on the same -- and they have instructed me to inform you that they will contract for such perpetual preservation for six hundred dollars. --

My own opinion is that you will do well to accept these terms, as those as low as any I have ever known upon so large a lot, with such valuable appurtenances as yours. --

I mentioned that you were willing to pay $500, but they did not feel it safe to accept that sum. --

I am Very Resp.y yours

A.J. Coolidge Sec.y

April 11^th5 [1865]

G.D. Norris Esq Milwaukee Wis.

Dear Sir,

A note from you which authorizes the interment of Henry Wilkins in your lot on the 30^th Jany. 1865, contains the information that your father S.H. Norris is not living. As our records do not show his interment in the lot, or in the Cemetery, I had no means of knowing the fact of his death. --

The accompanying blank contains information for the direction of heirs and devisees upon the decease of a proprietor. It is applicable in all cases, where the proprietor has left more than one heir at law, or where he has not devised his lot to one person, either directly or indirectly in his will. --

Will you please have it filled up and executed by the proper persons (if it applies to this lot) ^^{including yourself,} and return it to me.

Respectfully yours,

A.J. Coolidge, Secretary

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May 26, [186]8

T.A. Chapman Esq. Milwaukee Wis. --

Dear Sir,

Out Treas^r, Mr Bond, has sent me your note of May 13^th requesting me to reply to it:

I regret to perceive that you have got an erronous impression in the matter. The bill as I see, is $53.25 for the first grading and sodding the lot. Your lot (no 3530 Mound Avenue) was graded up with a line of lots of which Mr Collier's is first and Mr Clark's last -- in advance of sale. The Corporation only occasionally grades lot before sale, and invariably, when this is done, adds the price of grading to the piece of land. Your land (400 feet) as you find in your deed cost you $600. This was for land in its naked condition. You may have got the idea that the $600 covered the whole from the fact that it was graded when you first saw it. The reason we make the charge for the land and grading separate is that we divide proceeds of land with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and it has no interest in the work -- so we keep separate accounts, & the bills are rendered separately to the purchaser.

Every other gentleman near you has been charged this separate bill in the same way and has paid it. The fact, that if one

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Trustees. September 13^t, 1871.

Laid on the Table

After consideration, it was

Voted, – that the subject be laid on the table.

Stone work upon Lots Supt's mode of performing

Upon motion of M^r Turner it was

Voted, – that the^^{Committee on Grounds and the} Committee on Lots enquire into the method pursued by the Superintendent in performing work for the proprietors on their Lots as regards the stone curbing of them, and of the building tombs thereon: and that they report all the facts pertaining thereto to this Board at its next meeting.

Upon the petitions of the parties in interest, representatives were deisgnated for Lots, as follows, viz: –

312 Henry Whitwell of Boston, ^^{41 Tremont St}, Son of Samuel Whitwell, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Three hundred & twelve.

438 Joseph W. Patterson of N. York City, ^^{Care Messrs Patterson Son & Co Reade St} Son of Enoch Patterson, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Four hundred & thirty=eight.

798 Mrs. Alice B. Norris of Milwaukee, Wis., ^^{Care of Chas. W. Norris, 14 & 21 Erie StMilwaukee,} Daughter=in=law of Shepherd H. Norris, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Seven hundred & ninety=eight.

1652 M^rs Mary R. Brownell of Boston, ^^{93 Pembroke St} Widow of W^m E. Brownell, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Sixteen hundred & fifty=two.

1737 Merrick R. Pollard of Boston ^^{601 Tremont St}, Trustee ^^{under Will of} John Stratton, deceased proprietor of Lot numbered Seventeen hundred & thirty=seven.