Our September 3rd article for the 200th history spoke about the deceased who were buried in the crypt of St Paul’s and then moved elsewhere. In the September 17th article we started to answer the question of who was reinterred at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Our September 3rd article spoke about the deceased who were buried in the crypt of St Paul’s and then moved elsewhere. Additional research has revealed one of the reasons why indoor tombs were abolished in Boston. An article in the Boston Daily Globe, dated January 14, 1879, described the offensive odors of tombs.

In the earliest years of St. Paul’s the building included tombs and sales commenced in 1822-23. Internal tombs were a common feature in this period; Christ Church (Old North) in Boston’s North End has approximately 1,100 burials sealed in its crypt with active burials between 1732 and 1860.