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BURIAL: HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: CR002 POCASSET CEMETERY Location: 150 ft DYER ST at TEL pole # 107 25000 burials with 15401 inscriptions from 1877 to 1999 Owner: Pocasset Cemetery, 417 Dyer Ave, Cranston, RI 02920-7008 401-944-2112 NOTE: Incorporated in 1874 and the first burial was January 2 1877 - 390 stones in this cemetery predate this indicating many cemeteries moved into this cemetery. James Arnold recorded this cemetery 13 Nov 1892 (Vol 4, Pg 1-571) At Dyers Nursery is a large cemetery known under the incorporation act as Pocasset which started out as the family lot of Charles Dyer, which family lot has been enlarged several times but which now is enclosed by a suitable fence. South and southeast of this are various lots which have interments in them. The first in order will be the Dyer family enclosure which we proceed to give in the first notes here following. Gertrude Barrington recorded this cemetery in 1998-2000 This cemetery has been recorded but not fully checked.

BIOGRAPHY: Genealogy of the family of John and Wait Potter, Compiled and Published by Albert Potter, M.D., Surgeon Fifth R.I. Vols. Isaac M. Potter, Lieut. Colonel Fifth R.I. Vols. Providence, R.I. Rhode Island Printing Company, 62 Weybosset St. Electric Power Printers 1885 - Page 9