Letter: Island Cemetery seeks plot, grave owners
To the editor:
The Friends of the Island Cemetery is a newly formed non-profit corporation whose mission is to enhance the physical condition and the community’s awareness of the Island Cemetery …
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Letter: Island Cemetery seeks plot, grave owners
To the editor:
The Friends of the Island Cemetery is a newly formed non-profit corporation whose mission is to enhance the physical condition and the community’s awareness of the Island Cemetery in Newport.
The cemetery is an Aquidneck Island treasure that is located on Farewell Street near the entrance to the Pell Bridge. It was incorporated in 1848 and is the final resting place of remarkable Americans and captivating Newporters, and contains many notable monuments.
The Friends want to hold a long-range planning meeting regarding the cemetery and its place in the community. 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 its corporation – essentially the cemetery’s shareholders — 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 401-847-4646 or at matt.mcentee.ri@gmail.com. If you know of someone else who is a plot or grave owner, please ask that person to contact us
Matt McEntee
Friends of the Island Cemetery
