From the minutes
The association record · 1868–1921
Sweeney Cemetery Minutes
A cemetery, year by year
Decisions, disputes, maintenance, and the people who kept it going.
Meetings & transcript
Read complete meeting entries, with the original handwriting alongside.
Money to keep the grounds
Reported operating balances, in dollars of the time.
$1,509.83Reported in 1902
−$4.59Owed to the treasurer in 1911
$234.70Operating balance reported in 1921
Select a point to read its amount and source. Missing years are gaps, not zero balances.
Balances are plotted by the year named in the report; some earlier figures survive only as balances carried forward. They are not annual income or profit. Permanent-care funds and money separately held by Mrs. Rand are excluded. Conflicting figures are noted below.
All figures, notes & sources
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People in the minutes
Trustees, recordkeepers, caretakers, and community organizers. These sketches describe their roles in this record.
About the record
The minutes of the Col. John Sweeney Rural Cemetery Association document its organization in 1868 through its final recorded meeting on March 8, 1921.
Reading the transcription
This app preserves the existing compiled transcription: the original reading of scans 1–28, corrected text for 29–178, and the full transcription of 179–226. Reorganizing it by meeting is not a new verification of every handwritten word. Square brackets mark uncertainty, missing text, or editorial explanation. Check the scan before quoting a doubtful reading.
Meeting dates lead the reader; small source references connect each passage to the 226-image PDF. A few dates conflict or appear out of order in the manuscript. Those are retained and labeled. Duplicate photographs are retained as source material, not counted as additional events. The clipping on scan 215 hides text that cannot be recovered from that image.
Highlights and accounts
Highlights summarize decisions in the record. An order to remove bodies, a proposed endowment, or permission to negotiate does not establish that the work was completed. Account figures are transcribed reported balances; they have not been silently reconciled where the book disagrees with itself.
People with similar surnames remain separate. Search results may include relatives or spelling variants; a surname match alone does not identify a person.
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