| Cemetery Number | SK150 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | NORTHUP LOT |
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| Graves List | Display Graves List |
| Location | RODMAN ST |
| State | RI |
| Direction | W |
| Pole Number | 3295 |
| Distance | 900 |
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| Size in Feet | 30 |
| Size in Feet | 60 |
| Inscriptions | 5 |
| Fieldstones | 4 |
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| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | 2003 |
| Newest | 1872 |
| Oldest | 1838 |
| Vandalism | N |
| Veteran | 0 |
| Pole | N |
| Comment | This cemetery is on the Wild Meadow Farm at #64 Rodman Street, the home of the late Representative Leona Kelley, 900 feet from Rodman Street at telephone pole #3295. It is easier to reach from the First Church of God on Allens Avenue. It is about 300 feet north behind the church. It is thirty by sixty feet, in fair condition, although overrun with briars. It has no enclosure and no historical cemetery sign. There were at one time 33 burials here with five inscribed stones and four fieldstones.
James N. Arnold visited this lot Aug. 2, 1880, his #109, “on land of Samuel Allen west of the Town House at Wakefield a short distance we find a burial yard walled with common stones beside which we find a small lot fenced with pickets, also another further on.”
According to Leona Kelley who owned the property when we first visited, local tradition held that Northrup allowed his orchard to be used as a cemetery during a plague and many of these graves were moved to Riverside Cemetery when the people got the money for gravestones. The dates of death and the preponderance of family groupings, however, do not seem to support this tradition.
Found, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries. |
| Condition | fair |
| Enclosure | no enclosure |
| Gate | no gate |
| Growth | overgrown-briars |
| Terrain | hilly steep |
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