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Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Coventry #193

Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA

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This cemetery is shown on a 1888 bird's-eye map of Washington Village on Station St. about one block north of the Paine House. In a 1903 newspaper article, exact date and name of paper unknown: "The old cemetery lot in the rear of Dr. Frank B. Smith's was sold at public auction last Saturday to settle a long legal dispute. The cemetery, which was a small one, about seventy-three by ninety odd feet, owned by the twelve heirs of the original owners. Some few years ago Stephen F. Richardson (or Richmond) purchased the rights and title of eleven of the heirs, the twelfth refusing to sell. The bodies were removed by Mr. R. to a lot in the Woodland Cemetery [CY066] as also were the stones and monuments that had been placed over the graves... The wall that was nearly demolished will be rebuilt to compare with the next lot owned by Mrs. Phebe Johnson [Herbert A. Paine's mother]." Benjamin Holden sold 27 acres of land to Thomas Whipple on 9 April 1849 but "not intending to convey the burying place walled in upon said premises." There is no group of early Holden gravestones in Woodland, so the RIHCC has been unable to learn the name of the family once buried in this lot. Identified, registered, and recorded by Dr. Bill Eddleman and John Sterling for a 1998 book on Coventry cemeteries.



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CY193

This cemetery is shown on a 1888 bird's-eye map of Washington Village on Station St. about one block north of the Paine House. In a 1903 newspaper article, exact date and name of paper unknown: "The old cemetery lot in the rear of Dr. Frank B. Smith's was sold at public auction last Saturday to settle a long legal dispute. The cemetery, which was a small one, about seventy-three by ninety odd feet, owned by the twelve heirs of the original owners. Some few years ago Stephen F. Richardson (or Richmond) purchased the rights and title of eleven of the heirs, the twelfth refusing to sell. The bodies were removed by Mr. R. to a lot in the Woodland Cemetery [CY066] as also were the stones and monuments that had been placed over the graves... The wall that was nearly demolished will be rebuilt to compare with the next lot owned by Mrs. Phebe Johnson [Herbert A. Paine's mother]." Benjamin Holden sold 27 acres of land to Thomas Whipple on 9 April 1849 but "not intending to convey the burying place walled in upon said premises." There is no group of early Holden gravestones in Woodland, so the RIHCC has been unable to learn the name of the family once buried in this lot. Identified, registered, and recorded by Dr. Bill Eddleman and John Sterling for a 1998 book on Coventry cemeteries.



The map location is approximate.

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