| Cemetery Number | SK193 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | HENRY CHAMPLIN LOT |
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| Location | [REMOVED TO PERRYVILLE CHURCH CEMETERY] |
| State | RI |
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| Fieldstones | 6 |
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| Last seen date? | 1987 |
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| Comment | This cemetery was removed from plat 78-4, lot #2 on Old Post Road. This is near the corner of Mautucket and Post Road and west of Shepherd Drive, about fifty yards from the Green Hill water tower. It was behind #31 Mautucket Road. The removal was done November 11-15 of 1987 under the supervision of Marc A. Kelley Ph.D., Physical Anthropologist at the University of Rhode Island. This land was owned by Henry Champlin from 1851 to 1890. During the excavation two coffins were found to have name plates with the names George L. Champlin age five and Cora C. Champlin age three. There were six graves all marked with fieldstones. The first four were side by side in the center of the lot. The last two were along the eastern edge of the lot.
See the Rhode Island Archaeological Council Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 1988) for an article on this excavation. The plan at the time of the archaeological excavation was to study the remains and then rebury them in another cemetery. In 2003 when inquiries were made at the University of Rhode Island in preparation for this book, it was found that the remains and artifacts were still in storage in the Archaeology Department. A house was built over the site of this cemetery in 2003.
It is quite possible that this cemetery and SK 167 are the same cemetery. Charles E. Champlin was removed from SK 167 after it was recorded by James N. Arnold in 1880 and reburied near his parents in the Perryville Church Cemetery, SK 47 in section B. His gravestone says he was the son of Henry C. and Lucinda W. Champlin. We do not know the names of the parents of the children identified here by their coffin plates, but we do know that Henry Champlin owned this land. The South Kingstown vital records make no mention of the births of Cora C. or George L. If these Champlins are all the same family, it is not clear why they were not all buried together in the Perryville Church Cemetery.
Identified, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries. |
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