VERIFIED SOURCE TRANSCRIPTIONS — Mary E. Hart research supplement
Checked visually against page scans, 2026-09-08. Line breaks and display capitalization normalized; original abbreviations retained. These passages report what the publications print. They do not independently prove that each named person is the Mary E. Hart buried in Evergreen Cemetery in 1872.

1. BENHAM'S NEW HAVEN DIRECTORY AND ANNUAL ADVERTISER, 1872–'73
New Haven: printed and published by J. H. Benham, 1872. Number Thirty-Three.
Printed page 261, right-hand column:
Hart, James P., 269 Orange c Bradley
Hart, Mrs. Mary E., 269 Orange

Image source: https://archive.org/download/1872NewHavenCTDirectory/page/n135.jpg
The original image is a spread of pp. 260–261. Both entries are on p. 261; Mary is near the bottom of the right-hand column.

2. YALE OBITUARY RECORD, printed page 261
Obituary record for graduates deceased during the academical year ending June 1877, in the bound volume 1870–1880. Yale University. Internet Archive contributor: Robarts — University of Toronto. The item copyright-evidence statement dates the bound volume 1880.

1840.
James Porter Hart, second son of Dr. John A. Hart, and grandson of Dr. John Hart (Y. C. 1776), both of Farmington, Conn., was born in Farmington, July 27, 1817. His mother was Joanna, daughter of Samuel Porter, of Berlin, Conn.
He spent the three years after graduation in the Yale Divinity School, and afterwards resided in New Haven, where he died Jan. 10, 1877, aged 59 years.
He was interested in the science of phonography, and published several tracts on that subject. At an earlier period he took a warm interest in the settlement of fugitive slaves in Canada.
He was married, Feb. 11, 1846, to Mary E. Pierpont, of New Haven, who survives him, with one son.

Image source: https://archive.org/download/1870t80obituary00yaleuoft/page/n276.jpg
Important index difference: this image endpoint returns visible printed page 261. The item metadata assigns printed 261 to leafNum 277; endpoint n277.jpg instead returns visible printed 262. Cite the printed page and exact verified image URL.

EVIDENCE LIMIT
The obituary's statement that Mary E. Pierpont survived James's January 1877 death conflicts with identifying her, without explanation, as a woman whose gravestone gives an October 1872 death. Record the discrepancy. A shared directory address alone does not resolve it.

3. OPTIONAL JSTOR LEAD — NOT VISUALLY VERIFIED
“YALE PERSONALS,” The College Courant, vol. 13, no. 12, October 4, 1873, pp. 143–144. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44975332
Search-index text reads: '40, Hart.—Married, Sept. 22, Mr. James P. Hart and Miss Fidelia Pierpont, both of this city.
This wording is a search-index reading, not a verified transcription of a retrieved scan. Ordinary PDF download returned a client-challenge HTML page, so no PDF scan was obtained. JSTOR's item page states that, to its knowledge, the issue is in the public domain. Do not silently reconcile the obituary discrepancy on this lead alone.
