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Cemetery NumberPO056
TownPORTSMOUTH
Cemetery NameLAWTON ORCHARD LOT
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LocationUNION ST.
StateRI
DirectionN
Pole Number63
Distance500
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Exist?YES
Last seen date?2007
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CommentFound in 2007 by Barb Austin & Letty Champion about 450 feet north of PO018 near a manmade reservoir. There are apple trees west of this cemetery. All graves are marked by uninscribed fieldstones. Burial of Susanna (Lawton) Cornell known through Quaker records 9 December 1712: "buried by her father, Portsmouth, in George Lawton's orchard." [she was husband of Thomas Cornell (of Newport)]
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Enclosureno enclosure
Gateno gate
Growthovergrown-weeds
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