| Cemetery Number | SK007 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | NEW FERNWOOD CEMETERY |
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| Location | KINGSTON RD |
| State | RI |
| Direction | S |
| Pole Number | 466 |
| Distance | 50 |
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| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | 2003 |
| Newest | 2013 |
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| Veteran | 6 |
| Pole | G |
| Comment | This cemetery is located fifty feet south of Kingston Road, Route #138, at telephone pole # 466, across the street from the Old Fernwood Cemetery. There are 1,787 burials.
Started in 1931, this is the newest cemetery in South Kingstown. The information for this cemetery comes from the cemetery records and not from the gravestones except for section B. We are indebted to Betty Faella, the owner of the cemetery, for sharing the records. The records for this cemetery document the race of some of the American Indian, black, and Asian interments. This information—very important to genealogists—has been retained in this database, although we cannot vouch for its accuracy. The small “b” after some of the death years indicates the date of burial and not the date of death. A few death dates that were obviously typographical errors have been deleted, and a few others have been repaired. Many of the records do not contain the age.
Section B of New Fernwood Cemetery is on the opposite side of Route 138 and is next to Old Fernwood Cemetery. In earlier times, Route 138 ran along the dirt road that goes between Old Fernwood and the Peckham Cemeteries. When the highway was relocated to where it now runs, this section of New Fernwood was cut off from the rest of New Fernwood. This now obsolete part of the old Route 138 is known as Henry’s Elbow. According to local tradition, about 1920 Lorenzo Kinney, who owned New Fernwood, gave his permission to the black/Indian community to use what we now call Section B of New Fernwood provided that they would keep the cemetery up. For many years a Mr. Young maintained it, as well as some of the surrounding cemeteries. |
| Condition | excellent |
| Enclosure | no enclosure |
| Gate | no gate |
| Growth | grass-well kept |
| Terrain | level |
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