Friends Cemetery
Also known as Quaker Burial Ground , Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Westerly #11
Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
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About 60 Quakers are buried in the burial grounds, but the only engraved stones on the land are from the Jude Taylor family and Thomas Hoxsie, his wife Mary and their son Hazard and his wife Chloe Bailey.
The burial grounds sits on the site of the Westerly meeting house which was established around 1743. The Westerly meeting, along with meetings in Richmond and Hopkinton were known as the South Kingstown meeting and gathered together on a monthly basis.
(Information taken from New York Times article of 7/29/06 written by Katie Zezima)
About 60 Quakers are buried in the burial grounds, but the only engraved stones on the land are from the Jude Taylor family and Thomas Hoxsie, his wife Mary and their son Hazard and his wife Chloe Bailey.
The burial grounds sits on the site of the Westerly meeting house which was established around 1743. The Westerly meeting, along with meetings in Richmond and Hopkinton were known as the South Kingstown meeting and gathered together on a monthly basis.
(Information taken from New York Times article of 7/29/06 written by Katie Zezima)
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Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
- Total memorials7
- Percent photographed86%
- Percent with GPS0%
Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
- Total memorials1
- Percent photographed0%
- Percent with GPS0%
Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
- Total memorials30
- Percent photographed80%
- Percent with GPS10%
Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
- Total memorials2
- Percent photographed0%
- Percent with GPS0%
- Added: 9 Jul 2006
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2181487
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