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Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
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Last Name
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GOOLD
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First Name
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RUTH
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Maiden
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SHEFFIELD
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Relation
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W/O DANIEL; D/O NATHANIEL & MARY
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Cemetery Number
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NT014
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Cemetery Name
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CLIFTON BURIAL GROUND
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Birth Day
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0
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Birth Month
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Birth Year
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1692c
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Death Day
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16
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Death Month
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MAR
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Death Year
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1711
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AGE nth Year
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20
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AGE Years
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-
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AGE Months
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-
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AGE Days
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-
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Military Service
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| Map |
00118 |
| Stone Material |
slate |
| Condition |
poor |
| Shape |
fancy top |
| Carving |
skull with wings |
| Legibility |
poor |
| Number of Graves on Stone |
1 |
| Stone Height (inches) |
20 |
| Stone Width (inches) |
16 |
| Exists? |
Yes |
| Last Seen Date |
2006 |
| Carver |
JOHN STEVENS I |
| Notes |
1710/11 died: [CHILDBIRTH]
See Newport Mercury Saturday January 30, 1864. "in removing the Fairbanks house from its location on Bowery Street, a gravestone was found with the following inscription legibly cut upon it.
"Here lieth the body of Ruth the
daughter of Major Nathaniel Sheffield
and Mary his wife and wife of
Daniel Gould who died March ye 16th
1712 in the 21st year of her age." |
| Transcribed By |
QUAK;GHR;WS;JES;BA |
