| Cemetery Number | NS019 |
| Town | NORTH SMITHFIELD |
| Cemetery Name | OTHNIEL MATHEWSON LOT |
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| Location | PROVIDENCE PIKE (ROUTE 5) |
| State | RI |
| Direction | N |
| Pole Number | 131 |
| Distance | 100 |
| Map Number | 15 |
| Page Number | 15 |
| Plat Number | 42 |
| Deed Book | 159 |
| Deed Page | 129 |
| Size in Feet | 60 |
| Size in Feet | 66 |
| Burials | 34 |
| Inscriptions | 16 |
| Fieldstones | 17 |
| Tombs | 0 |
| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | |
| Newest | 1887 |
| Oldest | 1806 |
| Vandalism | N |
| Veteran | 0 |
| Pole | P |
| Comment | Doris Pennell Mowry & Robert E Mowry per deed dated May 2, 1994, (28.6
acres). Cemetery is located on part of this land and is not recorded as a cemetery on any town map. Cemetery has been badly neglected and allowed to become overgrown with weeds. It appears as though an afternoon of work by a conscientious group could restore this cemetery quite easily.
Benns lists this cemetery as #232 (Matthewson Family Cemetery)
In addition to Benns transcription, this cemetery has been transcribed
by, Irene Nebiker in the early 1970's, Roger Beaudry on December 31, 1992, and by Grace G Tillinghast in 1932. The later transcription is recorded in James N Arnolds work in Volume 25, Page 435, and listed under the town of
Smithfield. She describes the cemetery thus:
"Right hand side going from David Todd's farm. Yard near ball field;
granite posts and iron chains."
NOTE: cemetery is surrounded by fieldstone wall. She may have confused this with another.
Transcribed by Charles & Martha Benns who assigned it #232. This transcription is found in Volume II page 229. They describe it as follows:
"Mathewson Family near Farnum Pike & Providence Pike, N. Smithfield"
Transcribed by Ron Farrar circa 1970. "Corner of Greenville Road & Providence Pike, North of North Smithfield High School."
Transcribed by Ethel M White. "Junction Farnum Pike, opposite school house at junction." |
| Condition | poor |
| Enclosure | stone wall |
| Gate | iron gate |
| Growth | overgrown-weeds |
| Terrain | hilly moderate |
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