South County Museum
Rhode Island's Coastal Legacy

The Robinson Family Cemetery, Stone 5
Sacred
To the memory of
JOHN ROBINSON
who died Sept. 28, 1811
Aged 17 years
11th Mo. & * Ds.
Illegible characters are denoted by asterisks (*).
This is by far the most difficult to read of the 12 inscriptions. Scarcely anything can be made of the eight-line poem that follows the biographical data on the stone.