Mount Auburn Cemetery Scene

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. September 2013.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Founded in 1872. Formerly known as the Sharp Street Cemetery. Historically known as the “City of the Dead for Colored People.” The cemetery is documented in the Maryland Historical Trust’s Inventory of Historic Properties.

Status: active

Address: 1206 Ettings Street, Baltimore, Md. 21217

Website: http://www.sharpstreet.org/mtauburn.html

Obituaries

• See compiled entries for Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Sources for Burial Information

• Resurrecting Mount Auburn
• Find A Grave – Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Billion Graves – Mount Auburn Cemetery

Additional Sources

• Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church (Baltimore, Md.), and Bettye Collier-Thomas. 1977. One hundred seventy-fifth anniversary journal of Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church: Dolphin and Etting Streets, Baltimore, Maryland : October, 1977. [Baltimore]: The Church.
• Wilson, Edward N. 1963. Historical facts about Sharp Street Memorial Methodist Church. Baltimore: s.n.

Mount Auburn Burials, 1876

Burials listed below are derived from the following records available at the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland:

Baltimore City. Health Department. Bureau of Vital Statistics. Death Record.

• 10/1875-12/1875. [MSA CM1132-3 CR48047]
• 05/1876-09/1876. [MSA CM1132-4 CR48048]
• 09/1876-12/1876. [MSA CM1132-5 CR48049]

For additional information, including location of gravesite (where available), see Resurrecting Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Ernest Grayson (d. 1925)

Nancy Bramucci Sheads, Resurrecting Mount Auburn (http://mdhistoryonline.net/mtauburn/index.cfm : accessed 5 July 2013), entry for Ernest Grayson (d. 1925)

From the Afro-American (Baltimore)
25 April 1925: 23

ERNEST GRAYSON

Ernest Grayson, 1514 W. Mulberry street, was buried from Allen A. M. E. Church, Tuesday at 1 p.m. Interment in Mt. Auburn. His wife, Mrs. Janie Grayson, survives.

From the Afro-American (Baltimore)
2 May 1925: 23

WELL-KNOWN MAN PASSES AWAY

Ernest Grayson, the husband of Janie Grayson, at his late residence, 1514 W. Mulberry Street, April 18, 1925, after an illness of four weeks.

His wife and family wish to thank relatives and friends, G.U.O. Of Nazarites, various associations of Allen A. M. E. Church and Rev. P. J. Jordan, for their kindness to her during his illness. Also for the many beautiful floral designs sent in during her bereavement.

Mount Auburn Burials, 1875

Burials listed below are derived from the following records available at the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland:

Baltimore City. Health Department. Bureau of Vital Statistics. Death Record.

• 12/1874-5/1875. [MSA CM1132-1 CR 48045]
  
• 05/1875-10/1875. [MSA CM1132-2 CR 48046]
• 10/1875-12/1875. [MSA CM1132-3 CR48047]

Walter H. Harris (d.1912)

Nancy Bramucci Sheads, Resurrecting Mount Auburn (http://mdhistoryonline.net/mtauburn/index.cfm : accessed 25 June 2013), entry for Walter H. Harris.

 

From the AfroAmerican Ledger (Baltimore) 
6 July 1912

HARRIS – On July 3, 1912, Walter H., beloved son of Leroy and Mary E. Harris, at his late residence, 2045 Division street.

Funeral from Grace Presbyterian church, Dolphin and Etting streets, on Saturday, July 6, at 10 A.M. Relatives and friends are invited. Interment Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Death has robbed us of our son,
Whom we loved and cherished dear
It was Walter, yes dear Walter
Can we help but shed a tear?
His suffering days are over,
His pain and misery ceased
God called him to his Heavenly home.
With Him to live in peace.

By his parents.

From the Afro-American (Baltimore) 
13 July 1912

The funeral of Walter Harris, who died at his home, 2045 Division street, Wednesday of last week, after a long illness, was held at Grace Presbyterian Church last Saturday morning. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. W. Edward Williams, pastor of the church, assisted by Revs. G. F. Bragg, L. Z. Johnson and E. F. Eggleston, of Newark, N.J. Interment was in Mt. Auburn cemetery.

Mr. Harris was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Harris. He was a graduate of the Colored High School and Brown University receiving the degree of bachelor of arts from the latter school in 1909. He was teacher of history in the Colored High School, and was regarded as a most capable instructor.