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Cemetery NumberSK111
TownSOUTH KINGSTOWN
Cemetery NameWILLIAM DYER LOT
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LocationTOWER HILL RD
StateRI
DirectionE
Pole Number97
Distance100
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Page Number 
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Deed Book 
Deed Page 
Size in Feet30
Size in Feet20
Inscriptions2
Fieldstones2
Tombs 
Exist?YES
Last seen date?2003
Newest1788
Oldest1788
VandalismN
Veteran 
PoleM
CommentThis lot is located 100 feet east of Tower Hill Road (Route #1) at telephone pole #97. It is 30 feet x 20 feet, in good condition, with no enclosure; and no historical cemetery sign. It is in the corner of a stone wall north of an abandoned antique shop. There is a stone wall on the north and east sides of the lot. There are four burials with two slate stones from the John Bull shop in Newport and two fieldstones. George Harris visited this lot 6 March 1880, his #61, “At Tower Hill in lot north of the Bull and Dyer farm house in sight of the public road we find a yard in which we read, unprotected.” “Two graves south his children with rude stones and one smaller one.” “Quite a space south of these graves are 12 more as near as we could make out being those of slaves of the Dyer family. These graves are nearly obliterated.” Charles and Martha Benns recorded this lot in 1938, their #780. Found, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
Conditiongood
Enclosureno enclosure
Gateno gate
Growthgrass-well kept
Terrainlevel
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Cemetery Burial Map N/A
 
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