| Cemetery Number | SK184 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | JOSEPH PERKINS LOT |
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| Location | MINISTERIAL RD |
| State | RI |
| Direction | E |
| Pole Number | 5207 |
| Distance | 1145 |
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| Size in Feet | 20 |
| Size in Feet | 10 |
| Inscriptions | 1 |
| Fieldstones | 2 |
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| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | 2003 |
| Newest | 1789 |
| Oldest | 1789 |
| Vandalism | N |
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| Pole | N |
| Comment | This cemetery is located 1145 feet east of Ministerial Road at telephone pole #5207, adjacent to SK110. It is one quarter mile in on a private road opposite the Aquapaug Boy Scout camp area. It is twenty by ten feet, in fair condition, with no enclosure and no historical cemetery sign. There are three burials with one inscribed slate stone, carved in Newport by John Stevens III of the Stevens shop, and two fieldstones.
James N. Arnold visited this lot Oct. 6, 1880, his #129, “in open lot southeast from James K Tefft’s house, open lot graves unprotected.” He found the slate stone and nine fieldstone marked graves in this lot. The location of this cemetery in 2003 is not consistent with the description Arnold gives of the cemeteries he visited Oct. 6, 1880. His #127 (SK110, the Dimon-Tefft Lot) he describes as northeast of the house of James K. Tefft. His #128 (now lost SK A9 formerly known as SK513, the poor of the town) has probably been destroyed, but was located 25 rods [412 feet] south of SK110. This cemetery, his #129, was located southeast of James K. Tefft’s house. In 2003 the Joseph Perkins stone and two fieldstones are located next to the south wall of SK110. The Joseph Perkins stone, as well as the two fieldstones next to it on the south side, are well set and look as though they have always been there, but the Arnold transcript tells us that in 1880 these two cemeteries were in different directions from James K Tefft’s house with no mention of them being adjacent to each other.
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-weeds |
| Terrain | level |
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