| Cemetery Number | SK172 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | JEREMIAH NILES POTTER LOT |
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| Location | [REMOVED TO RIVERSIDE CEMETERY (SK043)] |
| State | RI |
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| Last seen date? | 1870 |
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| Comment | This cemetery was removed from the old Jeremiah Niles Potter homestead to Riverside Cemetery, SK043. We know of this cemetery because of the mention of burials in it in Daniel Stedman’s journal, the first occurring in Feb. 1835. Stedman wrote: “died child of Niles Potter, 20th, buried on his father’s place first grave in that place. Child nearly 2 months old.” For fourteen years the cemetery was apparently a somewhat informal place. In his will made on Feb. 24, 1848 (coincidentally witnessed by Daniel Stedman) Jeremiah N. Potter gave rights to his 27 acres to his daughter Mary N. Robinson and her son Jeremiah Potter Robinson, reserving “for the common use of my family and descendants for a burying ground a parcel of land to be laid out forty feet square, where I have commenced one….” Jeremiah Robinson contracted with Daniel Stedman to lay out the stone wall as his grandfather had directed. Stedman had worked as a day laborer for Potter most of his adult life. He worked on the burial ground and helped dig graves, including Potter’s own grave in 1849.
The lot was not, however, used by the family and descendants as Potter had wished. The graves were moved to Riverside Cemetery between 1870 when Riverside opened and 1880 when Arnold recorded these graves there. There Jeremiah Niles Potter is reunited with his first wife, Sarah Hazard, who died in 1817 and was buried in an unknown location. His second wife, Sarah’s sister, Alice Hazard, died Feb. 13, 1870 at the age of 90, a few months before the first burial at Riverside. Wherever she was initially buried, she too is now with her husband and sister.
Identified, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries. |
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