I just returned from my umpteenth visit to Charlestown, RI, over the
last 35 years searching for my predecessors. This visit was piggy-backed
onto a trip with another purpose. But in order to get the least
expensive airfare, I was able to spend a couple of hours visiting the
old sites in Charlestown.
The stop at Historical Cemetery #44 showed that someone had cleared out
all the underbrush that prevented a complete inventory of the
gravestones. From the land evidence books that Browning and Dinah
(Dianna) Green were buried there. This time, in the back southwest
corner of the cemetery that in the past had always been impenetrable
jungle, I saw a gravestone. I walked back there and read:
Mrs. Dianna Green, wife of Browning Green Esq, died 17 Jan 1847 (I am
not positive that I read the two "7"s in these dates correctly), aged 78
years 22 days. (This could have been 76 years.)
Laying down next to Dianna's stone was another stone. This was harder to
read, but here is what I read:
Browning Green, Esq, died 15 Nov 1822 (The final "2" is a guess, but
agrees with the Town Hall records where his estate was probated Dec
1822), aged 54 years, 7 months, 2 days.
So a great big THANK YOU to the people who cleaned up this cemetery.
Even Marjorie Pendleton's listing of gravestones in this cemetery missed
these two stones.
I have photos of both gravestones but only Dianna's is legible in the photo.
Bill Wright