. Guide through Mount Auburn : a hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad : illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . t rest. On the same lot there is a marble memorial, markedwith this touching inscription : — My Wife. Mrs. S. P. VV. Crocker, died May 18, 1356, aged 47 yearsand 10 months. She was always so pleasant. We next pass the Harrington, E-ice, Greene, Gates, andLabree lots, on all of which there are appropriate memorials. Turn to the right into Beech Avenue, and pass throughBeech Avemie toward Central Square. Central Square. On the left will be seen a
. Guide through Mount Auburn : a hand-book for passengers over the Cambridge railroad : illustrated with engravings and a plan of the cemetery . t rest. On the same lot there is a marble memorial, markedwith this touching inscription : — My Wife. Mrs. S. P. VV. Crocker, died May 18, 1356, aged 47 yearsand 10 months. She was always so pleasant. We next pass the Harrington, E-ice, Greene, Gates, andLabree lots, on all of which there are appropriate memorials. Turn to the right into Beech Avenue, and pass throughBeech Avemie toward Central Square. Central Square. On the left will be seen a memorial to Martha Whiting, — In memory of our Teacher, who died Aug. 22, 1853, aged 58 hath done what she could. Erected by the pupils of the Charles-town Female Seminary. On the right, between Beech and Central Avenues, maybe seen the monument, probably the first erected within thegrounds, to the memory of Hamiah Adams, and inscribed, —To Hannah Adams, Historian of the Jews and Reviewer of the Chris-tian Sects, this monument is erected by her female friends First Ten-ant of Mount Auburn. She died Dec. 15, 1831, aged WHITING MEMORIAL. 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 first burial in Mount Auburn was of a child ofJames Boyd, July 6, 1832, in lot No. 182, on MountainAvenue. The second bvirial 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 about thre
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