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| Last Name | WATSON |
| First Name | ALICE |
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| Cemetery Number | EX169 |
| Cemetery Name | WATSON LOT |
| Birth Day | 0 |
| Birth Month | |
| Birth Year | 1786c |
| Death Day | 7 |
| Death Month | MAY |
| Death Year | 1855 |
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| Stone Material | marble |
| Condition | fair |
| Shape | pointed top |
| Carving | no carving |
| Legibility | fair |
| Number of Graves on Stone | 1 |
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| Last Seen Date | 2013 |
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| Notes | This stone has been found in the Porter Cemetery in Thompson, CT.
We nearly spilled our coffee as we read these words from Bill Warner, a Findagrave volunteer. It was the morning of May 4, 2013, more than six years after our last physical search for the lost Watson lot (EX895) in Exeter, Rhode Island, and three-and-a-half years after writing up and posting that story.
Bill had found Alice Watson’s gravestone at Porter Cemetery in Thompson, CT – forty-five miles to the north of where she likely was buried in 1855. After photographing headstones at Porter Cemetery for inclusion at Findagrave.com, Bill worked to cross-reference them with the Hale Collection’s list of interments at Porter Cemetery. Alice’s name does not appear on that list. So Bill searched online to find mention of Alice Watson. He found our “Where’s Alice” web page right here. What Bill did next was a true Random Act of Genealogical Kindness: He went to the trouble of tracking back to our home page to find an email address, and then he wrote to us.
Bill, you are Our Hero, and we can't thank you enough! (That’s Bill standing next to a Warner monument in the photo on the right.)
We visited Porter Cemetery on June 12, 2013, with the help of John Rice, president of the East Thompson Cemetery Association.
Porter Cemetery is one of those old family burial grounds that now sits secluded in the woods: You practically have to walk through someone’s yard to reach the gates. John had gone to find Alice’s stone on his own, in anticipation of our visit. He guided us directly to where it lay, propped up in the northeast corner of the graveyard against a concrete post marking the corner of the Young lot. The nearest gravestone was that of Forrest E. Young. |
| Transcribed By | BENN895;GGT |