. Guide through Mount Auburn. A Hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad. Illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . Bpirit more Prom us eternal, quiet rest. On the same lot there is a small marble memorial, markedwith this touching inscription : — My Wife. .Mrs. S. P, W. Crorkcr. died Way 18, ,fi, aged 17 yearsand ID months. Site was always si, pleasant. We next pass the Harrington, Kite, Greene, Gates, andLabree lot-, on all of which there are appropriate memorials. Turn tn the right into Beach Avenue, and pass throughBeech Avenue toward Central Square. Cimiiai,
. Guide through Mount Auburn. A Hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad. Illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . Bpirit more Prom us eternal, quiet rest. On the same lot there is a small marble memorial, markedwith this touching inscription : — My Wife. .Mrs. S. P, W. Crorkcr. died Way 18, ,fi, aged 17 yearsand ID months. Site was always si, pleasant. We next pass the Harrington, Kite, Greene, Gates, andLabree lot-, on all of which there are appropriate memorials. Turn tn the right into Beach Avenue, and pass throughBeech Avenue toward Central Square. Cimiiai, Squabs. On the hit will be Been a memorial to Martha Whiting, — In morv of our Teacher, who died Aug. SB, 1853, aged .r,s yean. Pbe hath done what ibe could. Elected by the pupils of the, Charles-town female Seminary. On the liulit. between Beech and Central Avenues, maybe seen the monument, probably the tirst erected within thegrounds, to the memory of Hannah Adams, and inscribed,—To Hannah Idama, Historian of the Jews and Reviewer of the Chrie-I by her female Mends tirst Ten-ant of .Mouut Auburn. She died Dee. )6, 1S31, WHITING page 62. 64 HANDBOOK. The lot on which this monument stands is a very smallone, and the monument itself is simple and will be noticed that the inscription declares that MissAdams was the first tenant of Mount Auburn. This isnot the exact truth. The records of the Corporation showthat the ftrst burial in Mount Auburn was of a child ofJames Boyd, July 6, 1832, in lot No. 182, on MountainAvenue. The second burial was of Mrs. Hastings, wife ofThomas Hastings, of East Cambridge, July 12, 1832, in lot301, on the same avenue. Mrs. Hastings was therefore,although she died many years previously, the first adultburied in Mount Auburn, as the monument on the Has-tings lot declares. There was doubtless no misstatementintended, in relation to Miss Adams, by the writer of theinscription. She died in December, 1831, only a
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