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The main settlement was on what is now called Stafford Hill, in honor of Joab Stafford, one of the settlement's leaders. In 1786 a deed transferring the cemetery plot to Joab Stafford was recorded, "for a burying place" for the local Baptist church. This deed may have been a formalization of a situation existing since at least 1779.
The Miami City Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries where the owners of the plot actually hold its deed. Approximately 1,000 open plots remain within the cemetery, but there are strict criteria for burial. A decedent must be either the deedholder or able to prove familial relationship to the owner. Friends of the family are not allowed.
The more technical details of the legal description are all contained in the recorded plat map and there is no need to reiterate them in a deed or other legal description. By contrast, a Public Land Survey System legal description of the same 2.5 acres (10,000 m 2 ) property would be something like SW 1/4 SW1/4 NE1/4 SW1/4 SEC 18 T1S R1E ...
The original division of the cemetery, now known as First Calvary or Old Calvary, was filled by 1867. The Archdiocese of New York expanded the area of the cemetery, adding more sections, and by the 1990s there were nearly 3 million burials in Calvary Cemetery. The Cemetery continues to add plots and burial spaces can be purchased in advance.
Eloise Cemetery in Westland, Michigan, was used by the Eloise hospital complex; some 7,000 people were buried there between 1894 and 1948. [6] Golden Gate Cemetery in San Francisco, California, was used from 1870 to 1909, with some 29,000 burials in sections, one of which was a potter's field. [7]
Management includes record-keeping, selling burial plots to residents, issuing deeds, staking plots and arranging the installation of permanent plot markers, and, when there is a death, issuing burial permits which are free but required for burial in a town cemetery.
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In 1888, The Yantzi family deeded two acres of land for the establishment of a church and cemetery. The deed was recorded in the Holt County Book of Deeds, on May 9, 1888 on page 173. The legal description is – "Two acres of land, situated in the Southeast corner of the South-East 1/4, Section 4, Twp. 30, Range 12 West."