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Cemetery Number
CH053
Town
CHARLESTOWN
Cemetery Name
SHEFFIELD LOT
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Location
OLD WEST BEACH RD
State
RI
Direction
S
Pole Number
447
Distance
10
Map Number
2
Page Number
Plat Number
112
Deed Book
Deed Page
Size in Feet
30
Size in Feet
40
Inscriptions
10
Fieldstones
11
Tombs
Exist?
YES
Last seen date?
2013
Newest
1775
Oldest
1775
Vandalism
N
Veteran
0
Pole
N
Comment
Located beside Old West Beach Road and close to West Beach Road. Go down West Beach Rd to NEL pole #405/42 and turn west onto Old West Beach Rd. Go 200 ft. to NEL pole #447. The cemetery is on south side of road 50 ft. east of NEL pole #447. Across from #9 Old West Beach Rd. - 3 marked fieldstones, one with a date (1775). The 5 Pendletons listed are from Mrs. Marjorie C. Pendleton's notes, there are no engraved stones for them. Not far from old Sheldon Sheffield Farm House. Recorded by Marjorie Pendleton about 1980 Recorded by John Sterling in 1993 Recorded by Lorraine Tarket-Arruda and Gayle Waite for their 2008 book on Charlestown cemeteries.
Condition
fair
Enclosure
no enclosure
Gate
no gate
Growth
overgrown-trees
Terrain
level
Cemetery Location
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