Daniel Stedman Lot
Also known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery South Kingstown #159
South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
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South Kingstown, Rhode Island 02879 United StatesCoordinates: 41.44199, -71.51371 - rihistoriccemeteries.org/newsearchcemeterydetail.aspx?ceme_no=SK159
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This was the cemetery of Daniel Stedman whose journal was published by the Rhode Island Genealogical Society in 2003. The lot was located in the present-day area of Pine Hill Road and Woodbine Road, just west of Sugarloaf Hill in Wakefield, on property that had belonged to his father, Daniel Stedman, Jr. The property was divided in 1815, and Daniel bought three acres, her portion in the division, from his sister Meribah Jacquays and her husband Williams Jacquays. When Stedman sold that land in Nov. 1833 to Willard Hazard, he reserved 54 rods (nine rods east-west and six rods north-south) "for burying ground," for the use of his family and the Jacquays family. He walled it off, as promised in the deed, with large fieldstones painstakingly dragged from his field. The lot contained both family members and others. James N. Arnold visited this lot Dec. 11, 1880, his #266: "Northwest from the Dockray yard (SK069) in pasture a fence around it a burial yard of the Stedman family most of whom have been removed. Name below still lies here - John Stedman." The turn of phrase suggests that he did not find an inscribed gravestone and was probably told about the burial from the land owner. Most of the Stedman family members had already been removed when Arnold visited the lot. We now find inscribed gravestones marking burials known to have taken place here in Section D of Riverside Cemetery (SK043). Since Riverside was not opened until April of 1870, these stones were moved there between April 1870 and December 1880. The fate of the unmarked graves in this cemetery is unknown. Found, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
SK159
SOME REMOVED TO SK043
This was the cemetery of Daniel Stedman whose journal was published by the Rhode Island Genealogical Society in 2003. The lot was located in the present-day area of Pine Hill Road and Woodbine Road, just west of Sugarloaf Hill in Wakefield, on property that had belonged to his father, Daniel Stedman, Jr. The property was divided in 1815, and Daniel bought three acres, her portion in the division, from his sister Meribah Jacquays and her husband Williams Jacquays. When Stedman sold that land in Nov. 1833 to Willard Hazard, he reserved 54 rods (nine rods east-west and six rods north-south) "for burying ground," for the use of his family and the Jacquays family. He walled it off, as promised in the deed, with large fieldstones painstakingly dragged from his field. The lot contained both family members and others. James N. Arnold visited this lot Dec. 11, 1880, his #266: "Northwest from the Dockray yard (SK069) in pasture a fence around it a burial yard of the Stedman family most of whom have been removed. Name below still lies here - John Stedman." The turn of phrase suggests that he did not find an inscribed gravestone and was probably told about the burial from the land owner. Most of the Stedman family members had already been removed when Arnold visited the lot. We now find inscribed gravestones marking burials known to have taken place here in Section D of Riverside Cemetery (SK043). Since Riverside was not opened until April of 1870, these stones were moved there between April 1870 and December 1880. The fate of the unmarked graves in this cemetery is unknown. Found, registered, and recorded by John Sterling & James Wheaton for a 2004 book on South Kingstown cemeteries.
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- Added: 13 Apr 2019
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2683353
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