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Cemetery NumberPV035
TownPROVIDENCE
Cemetery NameSTATE HOME & SCHOOL CEMETERY
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Location[REMOVED TO GRACE CHURCH CEMETERY]
StateRI
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Last seen date?1957
Oldest1886
Newest1919
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CommentWas located at 610 Mt. Pleasant Ave. until 1957 when it was removed to Grace Church Cemetery. See Providence Journal December 6, 1957, the remains of 13 burials were moved, 8 with headstones. The school was established by the State of Rhode Island in 1885 on what was the Obadiah Brown farm. The cemetery was for burial of children at the school. There is a fenced enclosure. Recorded by the DAR in 1940 Those who died after 1910 are from DCYF records. In 1998 this is the East Campus of RI College
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