1865-12-04 Trustee Committee Report on the Appointment of Gatekeeper, 2021.004.028

Mount Auburn Cemetery [letterhead]

33 School Street, Boston, Dec^r4yh1865

The Committee appointed to select a Gatekeeper & temporaily to appoint one beg leave to report that having examined the different applications for that office & een the several applicants - upon a full consideration of the recommendations presented and personal Enquiries made they have appointed temporariy George P. Southack, a returened and wounded solder whom they also recommend for appointment by the Trustees as permanent Gatekeeper.

Mr Southack as they have been informed was an orderly Sergeant in the 2^d Mass.^ts Reg^t in the Infantry -was wounded in the Arm & discharged. again enlisted in the 61^st Mass^ts Infantry & remained in Service until the Regiment was mustered out in July last. He has since then time been employed for a part of the time in the Office of the Adjutant Gen^l as Clerk, but has recently been discharged there being no further occasion for so larage a number of clerks. He is married and as he states has no property or means of Support The Committee feeling that a Soldier who has served so faithfully during the war & had been wound ed in such a manner as to disable him from returning to his former occupation that of a Pianto forte tuner, is more deserving of the consideration of the Trustees than any other person can be. Respectfully recommend his appointment - for the Committee Edward S. Rand

Report of C ommittee on appointment of Gatekeeper

In Trustees Dec^r4. 1865 Read & accepted