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Below is the Description of this cemetery that my husband and I went to today...My husband grew up in this area and he was telling me about John Wickes and how he was buried in two places Head in one grave and body in another...this is what he tombstone said
HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF
JOHN WICKES ESQUIRE,
BORN 1609,
AT STAINES, ENGLAND
CAME TO NEW ENGLAND
1635.
AN ORIGINAL PURCHASER
OF WARWICK 1643.
IN PHILIPS [sic] INDIAN WAR
AFTER THE TOWN WAS BURNT,
ON COMING OUT FROM
THOMAS GREENES [sic]
STONE CASTLE
TO LOOK FOR HIS CATTLE
ON 17, MARCH 1675/6,
HE WAS SLAIN BY INDIANS,
AND HIS HEAD SET ON A POLE
Well when we got to this cemetery and my husband saw the vandelism in it he was devestates....The stone for John Wickes gone..All the rest of the stones pretty much broke....It made us aick. There were 55 inscribed stones.They are pretty much brken lost or destroyed....
This is Warwicks history being destroyed
If you would like to read more on the Story Of John Wickes and the Early history of Warwick This is a real good website
http://www.quahog.org/attractions/index.php?id=4
other names this cemetery is LOW....Greene 1600 error stones
HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: WK028 STONE CASTLE LOT WARWICK RI
Location: 200 ft north of WEST SHORE RD at TEL pole # 177
66 burials with 55 inscriptions from 1663 to 1937
130 ft x 75 ft in poor condition enclosed with granite posts; sign in good condition
Tax Assessors Map #: Plat #: 352 Lot #: 42
NOTE: Just west of the BPOE hall. Recorded by Arnold 15 Jul 1894 (Vol 29 Pg 141-143
(only 7 gravestones recorded) 'A few rods west of the Capt Low yard, beside the road
but fenced. Yard in poor condition and neglected.'
This cemetery has been recorded and checked
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