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Cemetery NumberCY193
TownCOVENTRY
Cemetery NameUNKNOWN LOT
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LocationSTATION ST
StateRI
DirectionE
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Distance25
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Size in Feet73
Size in Feet90
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Last seen date?1903
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Comment This cemetery shows on an 1888 bird’s-eye view map of Washington Village on Station Street about one block north of the Paine House. In a 1903 newspaper article, exact date and name of paper unknown: “the old cemetery lot in the rear of Dr. Frank B. Smith’s was sold at public auction last Saturday morning to settle a long legal dispute. The cemetery which was a small one, about seventy-three by ninety odd feet, owned by the twelve heirs of the original owners. Some few years ago Stephen F. Richardson (or Richmond) purchased the rights and title of eleven of the heirs, the twelfth refusing to sell. (deed book #36, page 51, June 6, 1898). The bodies were removed by Mr. Richardson to a lot in the Woodland Cemetery [CY066] as also were the stones and monuments that had been placed over the graves....The wall that was nearly demolished will be rebuilt to compare with the next lot owned by Mrs. Phebe Johnson [Herbert A. Paine’s mother]” Benjamin Holden sold 27 acres of land to Thomas Whipple on 9 April 1849 but “not intending to convey the burying place walled in upon said premises.” (deed book #23, page 169) There is no group of early Holden gravestones in Woodland Cemetery so we have been unable to learn the name of the family buried in this lot. Identified, registered and recorded by Dr. Bill Eddleman and John Sterling for a 1998 book on Coventry cemeteries.
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