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Person Details
 
Last NameWHALEY
First NameJOSEPH
Maiden 
RelationH/O WAITY HOLLEY
Cemetery NumberSK029
Cemetery NameHOLLEY-OATLEY LOT
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year 
Death Day7
Death MonthOCT
Death Year1835
WarREVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map00023
Stone Materialmarble
Conditiongood
Shaperound top
Carvingcross
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches)19
Stone Width (inches)13
Exists?
Last Seen Date2002
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
Notes"Pvt Elliot's RI Arty." Walley on stone [Daniel Stedman: "Died about Oct 5 Mr. Joseph Whaley I should think a man about 80 years and his wife died 15 or 16."] [SAR: 1775 in Capt. Abel Drown's Co. of South Kingstown. Taken prisoner and sent to Boston, returned homw in Mar. 1776; 1776 Priv. in Capt. Benjamin Fry's Co.; Col. Richmond's Reg't; 1777 in Capt. Eben Adam's Co. Col. Robert Elliott's Reg't; 1778 same; served as Mattross and Corp.; pensioner]
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