UNSENT RECORDS-REQUEST DRAFTS — MARY E. HART, SGC-MH-003
Prepared September 8, 2026. These are drafts, not messages already sent. No copying fees or research services have been ordered.

1. EVERGREEN CEMETERY — ORIGINAL INTERMENT AND LOT RECORDS
Source/contact: https://evergreencem.org/contact-us/
769 Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, New Haven, CT 06519. 203-624-5505; djfiore@evergreencem.org.
Subject: Historical records for Mary E. Hart, Evergreen Avenue, plot 50, grave 4
I am researching Mary E. Hart, known locally as Midnight Mary. Her monument gives birth December 16, 1824 and death October 15, 1872. Your public burial search displays Died: 10/18/1872, age 47, Evergreen Avenue, plot 50, grave 4. Could you identify the source of this indexed date and whether it represents death or interment? Please advise whether a scan of the original interment entry, burial permit or return, lot-owner register, and authenticated plot plan survives. Include book/page references, original headings and neighboring entries where possible. Related indexed entries are Fidelia Hart (50/3), James P. Hart (51/1), Joanna Hart (51/2) and Susan Pierpont (51/3); these are research leads rather than assumed relationships. Please advise about availability, reproduction terms and costs before any paid work.

2. CONNECTICUT STATE LIBRARY — PRE-1877 NEW HAVEN VITAL RECORDS
Source: https://nhvhealth.org/vital-statistics/
Subject: Locating Mary E. Hart's October 1872 New Haven death entry
New Haven Health's vital-statistics guidance directs pre-1877 researchers to the Connecticut State Library. Please identify the volume, microfilm or digital collection containing New Haven deaths in October 1872 and the Hart name index. I seek Mary E. Hart, born December 16, 1824, whose monument gives October 15, 1872, while Evergreen's current index labels October 18. Please advise whether an original death register entry, physician's return or death certificate survives, and how to obtain the complete entry with headings, cause, residence, age, informant and citation. The FamilySearch New Haven catalog lead is 580583. I also seek the February 11, 1846 James Porter Hart / Mary E. Pierpont marriage and the September 22, 1873 James P. Hart / Fidelia Pierpont marriage to resolve conflicting publications. Please quote any fees before work.

3. NEW HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY — CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPER NOTICES
Source: https://nhfpl.org/how-do-i/research/local-history/
Ives Main Library, 133 Elm Street. 203-946-8130; refdesk@nhfpl.org.
Subject: October 1872 Hart death and funeral notices
Please advise how to search the New Haven Register and Palladium for October 15–20, 1872 for Mary E. Hart / Mrs. Hart. If available, I would like full-page citations and a readable scan of any death, funeral, burial or related notice, with newspaper title, date, page and column. Please also identify local clipping files on Midnight Mary and the earliest dated coverage you can locate. No 1872 clipping has yet been recovered in this project. Please provide availability, reproduction terms and costs before paid research.

4. NEW HAVEN MUSEUM / WHITNEY LIBRARY — HALE SURVEY AND FAMILY MATERIAL
Finding aid: https://www.newhavenmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/MSS-23.pdf
Subject: MSS 23 Evergreen Hart and Pierpont inscriptions and related images
The MSS 23 inventory places Evergreen Cemetery in Box 1, folders E–I, with a separate name index in Box 3. Please identify and advise how to obtain the full Hart and Pierpont/Pierpoint inscription pages, including page headings and neighboring entries, for Mary E. Hart and plots 50–51 on Evergreen Avenue. I also seek authenticated nineteenth-century portraits, cemetery photographs, association papers, monument orders or repair documentation relating to Mary. No lifetime portrait is authenticated in the present collection. Please supply catalog references and rights information before reproduction.

5. PROBATE CUSTODIAN — HART AND PIERPONT IDENTITY / LOT OWNERSHIP
Lead: https://rootsfinder.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/looking-at-midnight-marys-family-for-fun/
Subject: New Haven probate files for Joanna, James P. and Fidelia Hart
Please identify the appropriate repository and file references for Joanna Hart's 1870 estate, James Porter Hart's 1877 estate, and Fidelia Hart's 1884 will / 1885 estate. These leads are reported in a secondary genealogy study; I have not inspected the original files. I seek the wills, inventories and distributions that name spouses, children and Evergreen cemetery lots. Please preserve the original wording and dates, and clarify where records after 1880 are held. Please quote fees before copying.

6. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN ARCHIVES — POSSIBLE 1979 CHARGER BULLETIN SERIES
Lead: January 2012 reader comment at https://www.damnedct.com/midnight-mary-new-haven/
Subject: Verifying a recollection of 1979 Midnight Mary articles
A commenter identifying himself as John Poulton recalled writing a Midnight Mary series as a college newspaper editor in 1979. I have not verified the account or recovered the issues. Could you check whether Charger Bulletin issues, especially October 1979, contain such articles and provide exact titles, bylines, issue dates and page numbers? Please advise about digital access or reproduction terms.