Mathew Coudy's Handwriting and Signature
(From Coudy plot interment records obtained in December of 2005
at the Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO)

Dated May 15, 1867 the body text reads:  "Dear Sirs:  I hereby grant the (?) (?) S.K. Finck the privilege of burying his child in my lot until such a time as I may order it removed or he may remove it himself.  Mathew Coudy".    A Jesse Finck was interred in the Coudy family plot in April of 1867 (several weeks before this note was written) and was apparently never removed as Bellefontaine records show the body is still there in 2005.