Searching for Island Cemetery Plot Owners

Are you a plot or grave owner of Island Cemetery? Know one? The Friends of the Island Cemetery is a newly formed non-profit corporation whose mission is to assist the Island Cemetery Company to enhance the condition and the community’s awareness of the historic Island Cemetery in Newport.

The cemetery is an Aquidneck Island treasure which is located on Farewell Street near the entrance to the Pell Bridge. It was incorporated in 1848 and is the final resting place of many remarkable Americans and contains many notable monuments.

The Friends want to hold a long range planning discussions regarding the cemetery and then bring these ideas to the Island Cemetery Company. To do that, the Friends want to contact people who own graves and plots in the cemetery. All Island Cemetery plot owners are automatically members of the Island Cemetery Company - and as such have a very important voice in determining the destiny of the cemetery.

If you or your family are plot or grave owners, we would like to talk to you and work with you for a better future for the cemetery. Please contact Matt McEntee at 847-4646 or at matt.mcentee.ri@gmail.com. Also, if you know of someone else who is a plot or grave owner please ask that person to contact us.