Gravestone Record

Individual burial and gravestone information

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Person Details
Gravestone photograph
Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
Last Name CHURCH
First Name BENJAMIN, COL
Maiden
Relation H/O ALICE
Cemetery Number LC012
Cemetery Name OLD COMMONS BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day 0
Birth Month
Birth Year 1641c
Death Day 17
Death Month JAN
Death Year 1718
AGE nth Year 78
AGE Years -
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
Military Service COLONIAL
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map 0811
Stone Material slate
Condition fair
Shape box tomb
Carving no carving
Legibility fair
Number of Graves on Stone 2
Stone Height (inches) 80
Stone Width (inches) 36
Exists? Yes
Last Seen Date 2008
Carver STEVENS SHOP
Notes/Misc Details
Notes [fought in King Philip's War] 1717/8 [he is on one platform stone with his wife and on his own next to it]
Transcribed By BFW;JES;HSB;VFL;LRC