First Subscription for the Purchase of Ground by Mount Hope Cemetery Association, 1849

File — Container: MSS Box 339

Identifier: 339.8

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection comprises records of the Mount Hope Cemetery Association of Athens, NY dating from the founding of the Association in 1849. Included in the collection are purchase books with listings of plot owners alongside dates of purchase, as well as some documents concerning land owned by the cemetery and early records of Association Governance. Of particular note are two registers of burials in both Mount Hope Cemetery and Mount Hope Cemetery Annex listing the date of burial, name of the deceased, place of death, undertaker, and remarks as well as lot number they were interred in.