Aldrich Burial Ground
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Aldrich Burial Ground

Also known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery North Smithfield #39

North Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA

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    Coordinates: 41.98291, -71.51658
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AKA RI Historical Cemetery #NS039


PARK SQUARE (REMAINS MOVED NS007,UNION CEMETERY)


22 burials


Remains of 22 skulls and bones were removed on 12 August, 1958 and reinterred in Union Cemetery. A photo appeared in the Woonsocket Call of August 4, 1958 with the following caption: "CHECKING 200 YR OLD TOMBSTONES. S Burton Mowry, superintendent of Union Cemetery, checking headstones of Aldrich Family Cemetery in North Smithfield where skeletal remains, some 230 years old, are being removed to make way for North Smithfield Shopping Center in area behind Park Square Diner. Remains will be buried in a common grave at Union Cemetery."


The data, collected by Mrs Emma B Shaw date unknown, lists 6 stones, and is described as follows: "This cemetery, as one turns going north from Louisquisset Pike to go to Union Village, is off on the left on a knoll. There is a tall tree standing alone and under this tree are the following stones, also many not marked:"

Aldrich, Simeon 1726-7 aged 21 years

Aldrich, Levi 1726-7 aged 19 years

Aldrich, Walter S. son of

Andrew J & A----- d. Sept 2, 1837 7m 20d

Aldrich, Reuben 1726-7 aged 23 years

Aldrich, Hannah 1732 aged 7 years (?)

Aldrich, Lydia aged 2 years


One of the stones pictured in the article is that of Hannah Aldrich. This leaves little doubt that the cemetery described by Shaw and the one at Park Square are one in the same.


I have listed these persons in Union cemetery.


















AKA RI Historical Cemetery #NS039


PARK SQUARE (REMAINS MOVED NS007,UNION CEMETERY)


22 burials


Remains of 22 skulls and bones were removed on 12 August, 1958 and reinterred in Union Cemetery. A photo appeared in the Woonsocket Call of August 4, 1958 with the following caption: "CHECKING 200 YR OLD TOMBSTONES. S Burton Mowry, superintendent of Union Cemetery, checking headstones of Aldrich Family Cemetery in North Smithfield where skeletal remains, some 230 years old, are being removed to make way for North Smithfield Shopping Center in area behind Park Square Diner. Remains will be buried in a common grave at Union Cemetery."


The data, collected by Mrs Emma B Shaw date unknown, lists 6 stones, and is described as follows: "This cemetery, as one turns going north from Louisquisset Pike to go to Union Village, is off on the left on a knoll. There is a tall tree standing alone and under this tree are the following stones, also many not marked:"

Aldrich, Simeon 1726-7 aged 21 years

Aldrich, Levi 1726-7 aged 19 years

Aldrich, Walter S. son of

Andrew J & A----- d. Sept 2, 1837 7m 20d

Aldrich, Reuben 1726-7 aged 23 years

Aldrich, Hannah 1732 aged 7 years (?)

Aldrich, Lydia aged 2 years


One of the stones pictured in the article is that of Hannah Aldrich. This leaves little doubt that the cemetery described by Shaw and the one at Park Square are one in the same.


I have listed these persons in Union cemetery.


















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