| Cemetery Number | SK057 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | JOSEPH P POTTER LOT |
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| Location | CURTIS CORNER RD |
| State | RI |
| Direction | N |
| Pole Number | 3387 |
| Distance | 450 |
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| Size in Feet | 24 |
| Size in Feet | 26 |
| Inscriptions | 5 |
| Fieldstones | 2 |
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| Exist? | NO |
| Last seen date? | 1880 |
| Newest | 1863 |
| Oldest | 1837 |
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| Comment | This cemetery was located 450 feet north of Curtis Corner Road, just west of South Road, at telephone pole #58 / 3387 just inside the woods line beyond where the field is plowed. It is 24 feet x 26 feet, in fair condition, enclosed with a stone wall and the historical cemetery sign is in poor condition, lying off the pole. There are a number of confusing issues about this burial ground. The cemetery originally had seven burials with five inscribed stones, and two fieldstones. All graves except Margaret C. Potter have been found in Elm Grove Cemetery, North Kingstown where the names are inscribed on a granite monument in lot #218. The stone for Margaret C. Potter seen by Arnold may have been moved elsewhere. It is unclear whether all of the graves in this cemetery were moved; there may have been some unmarked graves that were not moved. The state registration list calls this the Goddard-Gardiner lot, however the Goddard-Gardiner lot is probably the one now registered as SK112.
James N. Arnold visited this lot Feb. 25, 1880, his #21, “Potter cemetery at Curtis Corner, lot well walled, faced and cemented.”
Recorded by John Sterling and James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries. |
| Condition | fair |
| Enclosure | stone wall |
| Gate | no gate |
| Growth | overgrown-briars |
| Terrain | level |
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