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 BATES
First Name MERRIT, CAPT
Maiden
Relation H/O LYDIA
Cemetery Number PV001
Cemetery Name NORTH BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day 7
Birth Month SEP
Birth Year 1767
Death Day 11
Death Month AUG
Death Year 1821
AGE nth Year -
AGE Years -
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
Military Service
Gravestone Details
Section AA
Lot
Map 00858
Stone Material marble
Condition good
Shape square top
Carving no carving
Legibility good
Number of Graves on Stone 1
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists? Yes
Last Seen Date 2012
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes b. New Bedford, Mass. Broken in 1998/9 by mowing equipment. Died: SMITHFIELD
Transcribed By JNA:FW;FTC,JES;JWN