COLVIN Cemeteries and Headstones
COLVIN Cemeteries and Headstones
Descriptions taken from RI Cemeteries Database Home Page
- HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: CY054 COLVIN CEMETERY COVENTRY, RI
Location: 0 ft east of COLVINTOWN RD at TEL pole # 25
80 burials with 69 inscriptions from 1801 to 1907
130 ft x 130 ft in fair condition enclosed with granite posts and iron rails; sign in fair condition.
Tax Assessors Map #: 93 Plat #: Lot #: 15
NOTE: Amelia K. Whitford
On hill at southeast corner of Colvintown Road and Meadowbrook Farm Road. The west side is marked by a stone wall.
Arnold visited on October 6, 1905, Vol. 6, Books E and H, page 1329, "On road beside it and near the Colvin District School House, lot bank wall on road, granite posts and iron rods on three sides, yard in good order. This cemetery has been recorded and checked.
Nov. 2001-I visted this cemetery, and it is in need of repairs. It is overgrown, and stones have been damaged by vandels.
- HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: CY061 ABBOTT-COLVIN LOT, COVENTRY RI
Location: 30 ft west of ALVERO RD at TEL pole # 1
39 burials with 27 inscriptions from 1800 to 1971
80 ft x 80 ft in good condition enclosed with granite posts and iron rails; sign in good condition
NOTE: Benns 141; BGS 129; Amelia K. Whitford
Emma B. Shaw and Mrs. W. E. Babcock visited this lot on November 2, 1927 (in Arnold records, Vol. 6, Book J, page 1439),
"On main road leading south from Washington Village, right hand side, stone posts and iron rails about the yard. A house directly in front of the yard.
Yard in bad condition." Thirty feet west of Alvero Road between TEL pole #1 and #1 1/2. This cemetery has been recorded and checked.
Oct. 2001- I visted this cemetery and in need of general clean-up. This cemetery has some broken stones and in need of repair.
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HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: CY066 WOODLAND CEMETERY, COVENTRY RI
Location: 20 ft northwest of WASHINGTON ST AT KNOTTY OAK ST
5000 burials with 3771 inscriptions from 1787 to 1996
NOTE: Also known as Knotty Oak Cemetery - Superintendent Jerry Carlton 934-1355. Records at Town Hall indicate first lot was sold to Celia and Jane Kilton on 19 Nov 1874.
Arnold visited on November 17-23, 1904, Vol. 6, Book 15; and September 26-November 29, 1905, Books D, E, and F, 'Village of Washington, R.I.'
Amelia K. Whitford; Benns 740
Records at town hall indicate the first lot was sold to Celia and Jane Kilton on November 19, 1874. There are 315 gravestones that predate this, indicating that there were many removals to this cemetery from small farm cemeteries shortly after the cemetery opened. There are 77 Civil War veterans buried here as noted on their gravestones and probably many more who did not indicate on the gravestone.
This cemetery has been recorded and checked.
Dec. 2001-I visted this cemetery and for the most part is in good order.
- Greenwood Cemetery
- HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: CY117ROYAL COLVIN LOT, COVENTRY, RI
Location: 20 ft west of WHITE PINE RD & CRABAPPLE COURT
40 burials with 13 inscriptions from 1835 to 1912.
55 ft x 55 ft in good condition enclosed with granite posts and iron rails; sign missing.
NOTE: Amelia K. Whitford
On SW corner of White Pine Rd and Crabapple Ct (off of Clarke Rd.)
Arnold visited this lot on October 10, 1904, Vol. 6, Book J, page 1396, "About...20 rods South [of Josiah Colvin Lot-CY770], lot like above [stone wall]. A burial lot protected [by] iron rods, some neglected."
This cemetery has been recorded and checked.
Nov-2001 I visited this cemetery and it is kept up from debrie but the stones are in need of repair.
- HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: CY059 GREENWOOD CEMETERY COVENTRY RI
Location: 0 ft west of FAIRVIEW AVE at TEL pole # 59. 7000 burials with 4456 inscriptions from 1796 to 1997.
Greenwood Cemetery Association--contact information unknown
NOTE: Arnold visited on 8-17 November, 1904, Vol. 6, Books 12-15, pages 1-234 and
Vol. 6, Book 17, pages 887-958, 'on Phenix Hill, some of these lots are well cared for, others more or less neglected, a fine receiving tomb in centre of yard'; Amelia K. Whitford.
Sections A, C, and D have no marked burials. The new sections at the west edge of this cemetery were not recorded. All are 20th century burials.
The land for this cemetery was purchased by William B. Spencer April 23, 1858. Prior to 1857 this ground was covered with pines, oak, chestnut and other trees, which were cut down.
Boulders were removed and a stone wall 2850 feet in length was built around a twelve acre lot. A gang of men worked for two years to prepare this cemetery for Mr. Spencer, at a cost of $10,000.
The original plan had 609 lots of 20 x 30 feet. The original gate had nine foot high, 24" by 28" granite posts supporting two large iron gates. The gates are no longer there in 1997. 260 feet from the entrance is a receiving tomb large enough to hold forty bodies. The first body was put into the tomb October 23, 1858.
There are 352 gravestones here that predate the cemetery. Many small farm cemeteries were moved here in the 19th century.
This cemetery has been recorded and checked.
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