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Person Details
Gravestone photograph
Photo/Image Courtesy of Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Volunteers
Last Name HOLMES
First Name SILAS, MD
Maiden
Relation S/O JABEZ & RUTH
Cemetery Number BR001
Cemetery Name NORTH BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day 20
Birth Month OCT
Birth Year 1815
Death Day 21
Death Month MAY
Death Year 1849
AGE nth Year -
AGE Years -
AGE Months -
AGE Days -
Military Service
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map 1115
Stone Material marble
Condition fair
Shape monument
Carving no carving
Legibility fair
Number of Graves on Stone 4
Stone Height (inches) 78
Stone Width (inches) 15
Exists? Yes
Last Seen Date 2009
Carver
Notes/Misc Details
Notes Naval surgeon - US - He was a graduate of Yale College." "In the prime of life, while Surgeon in the US Navy he was drowned by the accidental upsetting of a Boat in the Bay of Mobile."
Transcribed By CETA;JWN