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    The Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries on Farewell and Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. Together they contain...
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  • Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    the Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island, after which she was buried at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery. Pottker 2001, p. 107 Anthony 2002...
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  • James Franklin (printer) (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    12th wedding anniversary. James Franklin was buried in the Newport Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery. He was survived by Ann, leaving her with four...
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    Richard Morris Hunt (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    projects. Hunt died at Newport, Rhode Island in 1895, and was buried at Newport's Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery. In 1898, the Municipal Art Society...
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  • Janet Lee Bouvier (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    socialite. She was the mother of the former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Princess Lee Radziwill. Janet Norton Lee was born on December 3, 1907, in...
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    Raymond Rodgers Belmont (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    pistol. He was 23 years old. He was buried in the Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. "Young Mr. Belmont's Death. Accidentally...
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    Augustus Case (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    died in Washington in 1893. His grave site is located in Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island. Two ships have been named USS Case for him. Biography portal...
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  • Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr. (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    Auchincloss and all the other members of the family." Auchincloss died at his home in Georgetown on November 20, 1976, and was later buried at Island Cemetery in...
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    A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise...
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    William Ellery (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    New York, and Ellery Avenue in Middletown, Rhode Island, is named in his honor Ellery's tomb at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery in Newport...
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  • Cemetery, and Historical Cemetery 2) Clifton Burying Ground, Newport Coddington Cemetery, Newport Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery, Newport;...
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    are found nearby as part of the Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery on Farewell Street. The gated Touro Cemetery is at present opened to the public...
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    Ida Lewis (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    Ida Lewis was buried in the Common Burying Ground, in a prominent location, so her grave can be seen by passersby. In 1924 the Rhode Island legislature...
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    Declaration of Independence, and was buried in a local cemetery. His remains were later re-interred in the Common Burying Ground in Newport. Ward was born...
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  • S. Nicholson Kane (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    treatment. He was buried at Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. "Beach Cliffe", built in 1852, was located on Bath Road at Rhode Island Avenue in Newport...
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    Potter's field (redirect from Common Graves)
    Street Burying Grounds, a municipal cemetery which included a potter's field. Some maps identify the section as the "strangers" burial ground. Washington...
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  • DeLancey Astor Kane (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    August 28, 1844, in Newport, Rhode Island. He was the second of eight children born to Oliver DeLancey Kane (1816–1874) and Louisa Dorothea (née Langdon) Kane...
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    Perry Belmont (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    interred along with his parents and his brother August Belmont Jr. in the Belmont family plot in the Island Cemetery in Newport. His former home in Washington...
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    William Vernon (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    until at least 1799. William Vernon is buried in the Vernon Cemetery on Warner Street in Newport, Rhode Island. His house, Vernon House, is a National...
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  • Henry Bull (speaker) (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    (1743–1760), who died young. Bull died on 24 December 1774 and was buried in the Common Burying Ground in Newport. Bull, James Henry (1918). Miscellaneous Notes...
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    Michele Felice Cornè (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    Rhode Island. His house in Newport still stands on Cornè Street. He lived there until his death in 1845 at the age of 93. He was buried in the Common Burial...
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  • John Linscom Boss Jr. (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    1819). He died in Newport, Rhode Island, August 1, 1819, and was interred at the Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery. United States Congress. "John...
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  • Duchess Quamino (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    1804. A large funeral was held in her honor. She is buried in Newport's Common Burying Ground, in the northern section known as "God's Little Acre."...
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    Henry Marchant (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    general of Rhode Island, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Rhode Island, a signer of the Articles of Confederation, and the first United...
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  • Sybil Kent Kane (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    City and she was buried alongside her family at the Island Cemetery in Newport. "Beach Cliffe", built in 1852, was located on Bath Road at Rhode Island Avenue...
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  • Walter Howe (New York) (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    conducted by the Rev. George W. Douglass of Washington, Howe was buried at Island Cemetery in Newport. After his death, his widow remarried to Dr. Arnold...
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    Samuel Cranston (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    Williams, and his second wife was the widow of his younger brother, Caleb. Cranston is buried in the Common Burying Ground in Newport, and shares a large...
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  • Frances Latham (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    Newport. Frances and her last husband both died at about the same time in 1677 in Newport, and Frances was buried in the Common Burying Ground there. She leaves...
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    William Ennis (U.S. Army brigadier general) (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    on September 30, 1938. Ennis was buried at Island Cemetery in Newport. William Ennis was born in Newport, Rhode Island on December 26, 1841, the son of...
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  • John Cranston (governor) (category Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery)
    buried in Newport's Common Burying Ground. His white marble gravestone (dating from the late 17th century) is still in place and is one of the oldest...
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