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Cemetery NumberPO051
TownPORTSMOUTH
Cemetery NameWILLIAM ANTHONY LOT
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LocationRICHARD DRIVE
StateRI
DirectionS
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Distance160
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Inscriptions8
Fieldstones16
Tombs 
Exist?YES
Last seen date?2008
Newest1867
Oldest1813
VandalismY
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PoleN
CommentThis cemetery is located 160 feet south of Richard Drive behind #79. The gravestones are in the southeast corner leaning against the wall. Sign refused. George H. Richardson (GHR) visited this cemetery in 1887, describing it as "B. Hicks Farm for Wm. Anthony" (Richardson Scrapbook 974 at Newport Historical Society, p. 23). Location from a Beers map which shows B. Hicks and W. Anthony living in this spot. ANON, "Rhode Island Tombstone Inscriptions," circa 1900 at RIHS, also copied the stones. He called it the "Anthony Cemetery on Horace B. Hicks farm, Bristol Ferry. Barb Austin located this cemetery "less than 1/4 mile behind the house at 675 Bristol Ferry Road." Two stones are leaning against the stone wall, the rest were not found in 2002. Letty Champion photographed the gravestones in 2008.
Conditionpoor
Enclosurestone wall
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Cemetery Burial Map N/A
 
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