| Cemetery Number | JM007 |
| Town | JAMESTOWN |
| Cemetery Name | HENRY TEW CEMETERY |
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| Location | ROSEMARY LA / ATLANTIC CIRCLE |
| State | RI |
| Direction | S |
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| Distance | 15 |
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| Size in Feet | 65 |
| Size in Feet | 45 |
| Inscriptions | 4 |
| Fieldstones | 25 |
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| Exist? | YES |
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| Newest | 1827 |
| Oldest | 1766 |
| Vandalism | N |
| Veteran | 0 |
| Pole | G |
| Comment | 400 ft west of North Rd. (across from reservoir)
George Richardson: Tew Ground (formerly Tew Farm abt. 1/4 mile north of thelane or road on which the old Quaker burying ground is on - west of Main Road.) "James Tew and wife are the last of this family he d. abt 1860 age abt. 70, his wife died before he died, they are probably buried in this ground, no stones many rude stones with no words."
Somewhere in the Tew family burial ground, their locations unknown, are the graves of Azariah Tew, 1723-1765, and his four children. The children, none older than seven, died before their father; Avis, the youngest, was a little more than two at her death, in 1765. She died of a fever just three hours before her father, who succumbed after seven months of consumption. Azariah and his little daughter were buried in one grave with Avis’s coffin set on top of her father’s. This sad story is recorded at unusual length in the Town Records. The Town Clerk wrote further that the double-deck burial was “an instance not to be found in the annals of this town and perhaps even rarely in any other corporation in this Colony.” |
| Condition | fair |
| Enclosure | stone wall |
| Gate | no gate |
| Growth | cleared |
| Terrain | level |
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