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Person Details
Last Name
WHALEY
First Name
JOSEPH
Maiden
Relation
H/O WAITY HOLLEY
Cemetery Number
SK029
Cemetery Name
HOLLEY-OATLEY LOT
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
Death Day
7
Death Month
OCT
Death Year
1835
War
REVOLUTION
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
00023
Stone Material
marble
Condition
good
Shape
round top
Carving
cross
Legibility
good
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
19
Stone Width (inches)
13
Exists?
Last Seen Date
2002
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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