Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries

Cemetery Number	SK158
Town	SOUTH KINGSTOWN
Cemetery Name	KNOWLES-RATHBUN LOT
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Location	[REMOVED TO SK043] WAS ON SWEET FERN LANE
State	RI
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Inscriptions	8
Fieldstones	1
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Last seen date?	1880
Newest	1876
Oldest	1849
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Comment	This cemetery no longer exists in its original location as it was removed to Riverside Cemetery (SK 43), section N. The original location—across from the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Sweet Fern Lane—we know from the James N. Arnold transcript in 1880. James N. Arnold visited this lot Nov. 28, 1880, his #262, “at Rocky Brook southeast from the railroad lot fenced.” The original cemetery had nine burials with eight inscribed stones and one fieldstones in 1880. These eight names are on a marble monument along with those of five other relatives who died after 1880. Since we do not know when this cemetery was moved, we do not know whether any of the additional five people were originally buried here. The stones from this lot tell a particularly poignant tale of the loss of four children within one terrible month. Identified, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
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