TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.–The Trustee’s of Baltimore City Station give notice that Mr. JOSEPH SHANE has been appointed Superintendent of the Southern Burial Ground of the Methodist E Church. Persons removing their dead from said ground to Mount Olivet Cemetery prior to February 28th next, can exchange their lots with Mr. THOS. FRANCE, Agent for the Cemetery. Office adjoining Light street Church.
SOURCE: The Sun (Baltimore) 9 October 1854, p. 3 (ProQuest)
The Old Southern Burial Ground.– By the action of the City Council condemning and ordering the opening of Fort and Hanover streets as public highways, the quiet of the dead reposing in this burial ground, fronting on Light street, will be disturbed, as the beds of the streets lay directly through a portion of it. The trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city and precincts have accordingly notified all lot holders to have the remains of their relatives or friends interred there removed, or a disinterment will be made under the authority of the city. The remaining portion of the burial ground not condemned by the opening of the above streets will also be subjected to similar interruptions by the opening of other avenues as that portion of the city continues to grow.
SOURCE: The Sun (Baltimore) 22 May 1858: p. 1
The Monumental City 