Collection of volumes from the Lawrence, Kansas City Clerk's office, providing documentation regarding vital statistics, cemetery burials, and publication of official notices for the city of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas.

The certificate is filled out by the City Clerk's Office, Sept. 17, 1867. The deed, for a lot in Oak Hill Cemetery, is signed by the Mayor and the city clerk, March 28, 1868.

This volume, which is divided into 3 parts, provides information concerning the development and popularity of the rural cemetery movement (or "garden cemetery movement"); the history of Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas; and the relationship between Oak Hill and the rural cemetery movement.