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Monthly Archives: May 2017

Joseph A. Chedel Jr’s Gravestones

One more Memorial Day post about Lt. Chedel, the young Civil War casualty who lived in our house. He was brought home and buried in 1866 in his family’s plot in Providence’s North Burial Ground — an amazing place despite its current bad luck to lie next to Interstate 95. Anyhow, Findagrave has three photos […]

Joseph A. Chedel, Civil War casualty

On Friday, Mike Carroll, president of the Barrington town council, asked me for some background info. as he was preparing remarks for our Memorial Day observance. He was interested in Barringtonians who had made the ultimate sacrifice in military service — especially those from long ago. I looked through the Revolutionary and Civil War service […]