This may help BVIrish et al.
Fr. Gibson recorded the Feb. 21 1846 marriage of Michael Glispen and Elizabeth Young. Lent started a few days later. Witnesses were Christopher Kelly and Mary Ann Young. This Mary Ann Young seems to be in Hodges Village (Oxford MA) in 1852. Mike had witnessed (as did Mary Phalan) the marriage of John Phalan and Elizabeth Reily in 1844. This and census connect Glispen to Leicester.
Mike Glispen bought a plot in the new cemetery (St. John's) on the day they were first offered ("Plottery" is my word for it.): September 19 1847. Owen Murphy says that the purchase of the eight+ acres of land that would be consicrated in 1850 as St. John's Cemetery happened on May 13th 1848. Is this when the deed was filed? So it seems that the plottery was held to raise the money. The game of chance was to see who gets to pick their spot first, second, etc. Anyway, The cemetery says the first burial was Nick Mooney on June 11, 1848. This is only a month after the purchase, but the deal could have been made earlier, and the preperation of the land coulld have already begun by the time the deed was recorded?
So where did Mike Glispen bury his bride of two years; Elizabeth, in March of 1848. Was his plot at St. John's was just a promise when he needed it. Did she go to Tatnuck until 1907, then to a mass grave? There are worse people to be buried with, and worse places to be, but I have to believe that Mike made sure she was laid to rest in that little piece of land they bought together on Sept. 19th 1847. She is listed on the gravestone that stands on their plot.
From John McGinn's transcription of O"Flynn's St. John's epitaphs:
"Glispen. Eliza W. Wife of Michael Glispen & daughter of Michael and Ann Young of Dublin died March 16, 1848, aged 25 years
Suddenly seized by the cold hand of death
In a few hours I resigned my last Breath
My life with that of my babe I resigned
Which left my poor husband distracted in Mind
Physicians attended and tried their best skills
But all Must Submit to the Lord's holy will.
May they rest in peace. Amen."
Yea they are together in Sec. G.
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