CEMETERY BOOK MORNING STAR LODGE No. 20 IOOF [manuscript cover title]

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[48] leaves, plus six stubs. Oblong quarto. Original half sheep and paper boards. Front board detached, stitching perishing. Boards rubbed, edges and corners worn. An 1870s receipt book for cemetery plots in Placerville, California. The burial ground belonged to the Morning Star Lodge, founded in the town at the height of the Gold Rush in 1854. The blank printed forms all provide a "Certificate of Purchase for Lot in the Union Cemetery, Placerville.belonging to said Lodge, according to the Plat of Survey made by D.B. Merry, and the said Lot is hereby granted to him, subject to the rules of said Lodge now in force, or that may hereafter be adopted for the government of the same." This particular lodge was (and still is) associated with the International Order of Odd Fellows, which established a number of groups in California during the Gold Rush. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM52754

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