Update - 7/19/23

Elezer Slocum Lot | Exeter, Rhode Island | Historical Cemetery No. 154

Added to Cemetery List, July 19, 2023! Click HERE to view.

This particular lot was a pleasant surprise for us. Recorded previously as containing anywhere from 6 to 8 burials, a thorough search of the area revealed 5 large fieldstone burials about 30 feet south of the main cluster of gravemarkers, as well as two additional rows of smaller fieldstone burials between the two sections, bringing the total number of marked burials here up to 19. Sadly, we didn’t find any inscriptions of any of the fieldstones we uncovered, so we’re unable to say if this is perhaps a previous generation of the Slocum family, or if it belongs to another family entirely, as “sharing” cemeteries was not an uncommon practice at the time.