| Cemetery Number | WK034 |
| Town | WARWICK |
| Cemetery Name | BRAYTON CEMETERY |
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| Location | POST ROAD - APPONAUG |
| State | RI |
| Direction | E |
| Pole Number | 355 |
| Distance | 20 |
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| Page Number | 244 |
| Plat Number | 182 |
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| Size in Feet | 750 |
| Size in Feet | 450 |
| Inscriptions | 3335 |
| Fieldstones | 4 |
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| Exist? | YES |
| Last seen date? | 2013 |
| Newest | 1994 |
| Oldest | 1754 |
| Vandalism | Y |
| Veteran | 325 |
| Pole | G |
| Comment | Brayton Cemetery is located in Apponaug, 20 feet east of Post Road at telephone pole #355. It is 850 ft x 300 ft, in good condition. It is enclosed with a stone wall on the south and west boundary and granite posts and rails on the north boundary. The historical cemetery sign in good condition. There are about 3,800 burials with 2,948 inscribed stones and four fieldstones. It is on the tax assessor’s map, Plat #244, Lot #182.
James Arnold visited this lot 23 Oct. 1892 and commented, “in the Judge Brayton yard at Apponaug, lot well walled though portions of the yard are neglected” (Vol. 2, pp. 359-400).
Charles and Martha Benns recorded part of this cemetery in 1932, their #168.
There are 105 Civil War veterans in this cemetery identified on their gravestones and probably others whose stones are not marked. Nine small farm cemeteries have been removed to this cemetery: WK006, WK117, WK118, WK119, WK121, WK141, WK146, WK154, WK155. See them for details of the gravestones.
This was a private cemetery owned a maintained up until about 1990. When the owner died his daughters had possession of the cemetery records but they were not interested in maintaining the cemetery or the records. One small box of records was turned over to the city of Warwick about 1995 when the daughters left. They threw just about everything away, but Bob Gauthier, who was doing some burials there then, and still does, was able to convince them to give him the last box that they had. He turned it over to the city, or convinced them to do it. In any case, they are very sparse burial plot information. It does say who is buried in the plot, and sometimes what they died of. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to what was there… some of every letter, some in every section, but not all of anything. The Warwick Cemetery Commission alphabetized them and they are in a box in the city clerk’s office. They have talked of getting them scanned, but have not done so yet (2013). They are safely behind the public areas so one has to ask to see them, and they are not allowed to leave that room.
Recorded by John Sterling for a book on Warwick cemeteries. |
| Condition | good |
| Enclosure | stone wall |
| Gate | iron gate |
| Growth | grass-well kept |
| Terrain | level |
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