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Cemetery NumberCY057
TownCOVENTRY
Cemetery NameST PETER AND PAUL CEMETERY
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LocationBROWN STREET AT CORNER OF HILL ST
StateRI
DirectionW
Pole Number32
Distance150
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Size in Feet660
Size in Feet320
Burials2500
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Fieldstones 
Tombs 
Exist?YES
Last seen date?2013
Newest1995
Oldest1858
Vandalism 
Veteran 
PoleG
Comment St. Peter and Paul Cemetery is located 150 feet west of Brown Street at the corner of Hill Street at telephone pole #32. This large cemetery started about 1872. Most of the people buried here were early Irish and French Catholics who came to the area to work in the textile mills. Of the 1500 burials estimated by the RIHC registration list, most are twentieth century and beyond the scope of this project. There are about 100 nineteenth and early twentieth century burials recorded below. James N. Arnold visited this cemetery on 20 Nov. 1904 and commented, “In the R. C. Cemetery, Brown Street, Harrisville; yard in fair condition” (Vol. 6, Book 17, page 971). Recorded by Dr. Bill Eddleman and John Sterling for a 1998 book on Coventry cemeteries
Conditiongood
Enclosuremetal fence
Gateno gate
Growthgrass-well kept
Terrainlevel
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Cemetery Burial Map N/A
 
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