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Cemetery NumberSK081
TownSOUTH KINGSTOWN
Cemetery NameSIMON NILES LOT
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LocationFOX COURT - BEHIND #12
StateRI
DirectionNW
Pole Number 
Distance380
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Size in Feet25
Size in Feet45
Burials20
Inscriptions1
Fieldstones19
Tombs 
Exist?YES
Last seen date?2002
Newest1865
Oldest1865
VandalismN
Veteran1
PoleM
CommentThis cemetery is now located 380 feet northwest of Fox Court off Kings Ridge Road, behind #12 Fox Court. It is 35 feet on the west side of the north-south wall in the woods behind the house. The burial ground is 25 feet x 45 feet, in good condition, with no enclosure except on the south side where there is a stone wall, and the historical cemetery sign is missing. It contains twenty burials with one inscribed stone and nineteen fieldstones. The stones in this cemetery face north and are oriented north-south, not the traditional east-west. The only other example of this orientation in Rhode Island is a group of stones in the slave section (AG) of North Burial Ground in Providence also oriented north-south. Since Arnold described this South Kingstown lot as “a colored burial yard,” more study is certainly suggested. James N. Arnold visited this lot Feb. 25, 1880, his #27, “in open yard unprotected on west side of wall near woods on Old Niles place a distance from the yards above [SK 17 and SK 100] eastly we find a colored burial yard in which we counted ten large and nine small graves with rude stones only and one which we read.…” Recorded by John Sterling and James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
Conditiongood
Enclosureno enclosure
Gateno gate
Growthovergrown-trees
Terrainhilly moderate
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Cemetery Burial Map N/A