14 Eliza Middleton
15 Frederick Bennignus, October 10, 1845
16 Julius Graves, October 10, 1845
17 John Otstot, October 21, 1845

Brickell later sold lot number 1 to William Knoderer and lot number 5 to August Knoderer, both on October 30, 1846.²²

COMPLETION

In the late 1840's the North Graveyard reached what might be called a plateau of maturity or completion. The opening of the South Graveyard in 1841 and the Catholic Cemetery in 1846 took the pressure off of the old graveyard and it was never expanded beyond the Brickell Addition. A new "Ordinance respecting the Grave Yards of the City of Columbus," passed July 30, 1846, made no major changes in its operation, except in requiring the sexton to "keep a list of all interments specifying the age, sex, etc. as may be directed by the Council, and report the same to the Superintendent in April annually." No such reports are now extant.

City Council in 1848 appropriated four lots or ground equal to that in the North Graveyard to A. M. Reader, a Columbus undertaker, "for the purpose of erecting a suitable House to keep dead bodies in" and appointed a committee to select the ground.²³ This building could have measured up to thirty by sixty feet, the size of four lots. The building was erected and was still in use in 1872, as reported in the Ohio State Journal during one of the removals: "The remains thus far taken up have been placed in the dead-house, until such time as it shall be convenient to remove them to ... Green Lawn."²⁴

Later in 1848, on August 14, Council passed another graveyard ordinance, authorizing the superintendent to "lay out some lots off the avenues and other places in said grave-yard, and sell them at what they may be worth, regarding their size and location ... and the sexton of the North Grave-yard shall not bury any person in any lot, without the consent of the owner, nor in any place laid out in lots (unless such lots have been sold) without the consent of the city council..." That Mr. McCoy laid out such lots is apparent from three deeds recorded at the court house, by which lots 525, 529, and 532 were sold in 1849 and 1851 for eight dollars each. The plat of the south one hundred feet of the graveyard made in 1872 shows tombstones in the western roadway, indicating that it, at least, was laid off into lots and at least one of these lots was sold and used for burials.

The report of Superintendent McCoy for the year ending April 15, 1849 showed "that he has sold lots and collected up to the 15th of April 1849" $330.71 and that he had expended $258.88, leaving a balance of $71.13. He also reported that some small accounts

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