| Cemetery Number | SK006 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | OLD FERNWOOD CEMETERY |
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| Location | KINGSTON RD |
| State | RI |
| Direction | N |
| Pole Number | 475 |
| Distance | 500 |
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| Size in Feet | 100 |
| Size in Feet | 250 |
| Burials | 600 |
| Inscriptions | 427 |
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| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | 2003 |
| Newest | 1993 |
| Oldest | 1813 |
| Vandalism | N |
| Veteran | 16 |
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| Comment | This cemetery is located five hundred feet north of Kingston Road, Route #138, just west of the URI campus at Kingston and just east of West Kingston, at telephone pole #475. It is next to the Nathaniel C. Peckham Cemetery and across the road from the New Fernwood Cemetery. The well-maintained yard is 75 feet x 100 feet, in excellent condition, and is enclosed with astone wall. There are 427 burials marked with inscribed marble and granite stones. This cemetery belongs to the Kingston Congregational Church. The Old Fernwood deed of 1820 gives the right to be buried there to anyone that was a church member or lived within a mile of the church or a mile of the cemetery. The new section east of the stone wall is called Old Fernwood Extension. It was given to the church by a Mr. Potter ca. 1926 for the use of church members. Fill soil from construction of the middle portion of the Kingston Congregational Church, ca. 1983, was used to level off this new extension.
James N. Arnold recorded this lot Feb. 22, 1880, his #10, “Peckham cemetery opposite Fernwood.” When he recorded it, there were only four stones.
Recorded by John Sterling and James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries. |
| Condition | good |
| Enclosure | stone wall |
| Gate | no gate |
| Growth | grass-well kept |
| Terrain | level |
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