| Cemetery Number | SK099 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | JEREMIAH WILSON LOT |
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| Location | SHERMAN COURT |
| State | RI |
| Direction | NW |
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| Distance | 500 |
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| Size in Feet | 50 |
| Size in Feet | 50 |
| Inscriptions | 5 |
| Fieldstones | 12 |
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| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | 2003 |
| Newest | 1859 |
| Oldest | 1701 |
| Vandalism | N |
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| Pole | N |
| Comment | This lot is located four hundred feet north of Sherman Court. Go up (west) Sherman Court from Middlebridge Road to the end. Go west about a hundred feet, then go north three hundred feet to the cemetery. Most years this lot is heavily overgrown with briars. There are five burials marked with inscribed stones—although two were not found in 2001—and there are twelve unmarked fieldstones.
The William Smith stone, dated 1701, appears to be the oldest gravestone in South Kingstown, but since the stone was carved in Newport by John Stevens II, who was born in 1702, we know the stone is back dated. The design is very similar to the Jeremiah Wilson stone, dated 1740, and in all probability both stones were ordered and carved about that time.
James N. Arnold recorded this lot Nov. 25, 1880, his #261, “lot in very poor condition and overgrown much with briers and weeds. How many graves here have failed to be visible from time and other causes we know not.”
Registered in 1976 by Edwin Connelly
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-trees |
| Terrain | hilly moderate |
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