| Cemetery Number | SK202 |
| Town | SOUTH KINGSTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | JOHN SEGAR LOT |
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| Location | [REMOVED TO RIVER BEND WY008 & PERRYVILLE] |
| State | RI |
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| Inscriptions | 16 |
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| Exist? | NO |
| Last seen date? | 1880 |
| Newest | 1879 |
| Oldest | 1819 |
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| Comment | This cemetery was originally located east of Matunuck Beach Road and west of Segar Cove, on land now owned by the Carpenter family. James N. Arnold visited this lot in its original location Oct. 15, 1880, his #179 “on the old Seager farm west of the house in corner of lot in fine order not protected.” Arnold spelled the name Seager, but the original stones in River Bend Cemetery show it to be Segar.
The Carpenter family has a family burial ground (SK 203) located behind the Perryville Church Cemetery, and family legend says the Carpenters had the Seager lot moved next to their lot about 1880. In 1870 when the administrator of the estate of John D. Segar sold the land to Wanton R. Carpenter, the Segars attempted to hold onto their burial ground. They reserved it in the deed:
William F. Segar of Richmond, Administrator of the estate of John D. Segar, late of South Kingstown, sell .... to Wanton R. Carpenter the Francis B. Segar Farm so called .... except for the family burying ground. Said farm is in four tracts one of which the buildings stand contains 42 acres, bounded north by Joseph Champlin, Jr., east by land of said Champlin and the salt pond, South by land of Nathan Tucker and others and West by the heirs of J. D. and C. V. Segar (the burying ground of our 3rd acre before named) and the highway.
Identified, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
Many gravestones have been moved since Arnold’s visit in Oct. 1880. The Robert Hazard and Thomas Chenery stones are here, but the rest are in section 22 of River Bend Cemetery in Westerly. The only exception is Abbey B. (Segar) Brown who is in section 3 with her husband. |
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