Prominent people buried in the Common Burial Ground •
John Howard Benson - Artist and stone carver. •
John Linscom Boss Jr. – United States Representative. •
Christopher Champlin – First Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island 1791-1794. •
Christopher G. Champlin – United States Representative 1797–1801, United States Senator 1809–11. •
Michele Felice Cornè – Painter. •
John Cranston – Colonial Governor of Rhode Island. •
Samuel Cranston – Colonial Governor of Rhode Island. •
William Ellery – Signer of the
Declaration of Independence and colonial Deputy Governor. •
James Franklin – Printer and brother of Benjamin Franklin. •
Ann Smith Franklin – Printer & publisher, wife/widow of James Franklin (1st woman U.S. newspaper editor) •
Prince Greene - Enslaved African-American who served as a soldier in the American Revolution. •
Ida Lewis (lighthouse keeper) – Heroine of the 19th Century. Recipient of the
Gold Lifesaving Medal. •
Henry Marchant – Delegate to the Continental Congress. •
Dutee J. Pearce – United States Representative. •
Duchess Quamino (1739–1804), a formerly enslaved woman, known as the "Pastry Queen of Rhode Island •
Asher Robbins – United States Senator 1825–39. •
Gilbert Stuart – Portrait artist, is not buried here, but is honored on the monument above his wife's grave. (
cenotaph) •
Jane Stuart - First woman portrait artist in Newport, and daughter of Gilbert Stuart. Her mother and a few of her sisters are buried there, too. •
William Greene Turner – Sculptor, perhaps best known for his statue of
Oliver Hazard Perry in Newport. •
Frances (Latham) Vaughan – "The Mother of Governors," widow to colonial President
Jeremy Clarke, and mother of colonial governor
Walter Clarke. •
William Vernon – Colonial era merchant. •
Richard Ward – Colonial governor of Rhode Island. •
Samuel Ward – Delegate to Continental Congress and colonial Governor of Rhode Island.
Prominent people buried in the Island Cemetery •
Hugh D. Auchincloss – Naval officer, government official and stockbroker •
Lillian Barrett (1884–1963) – novelist and playwright •
Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Morris – Mother of
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis •
August Belmont – Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee 1860 to 1872 and founder of the
Belmont Stakes •
August Belmont Jr. – Developer of the
IRT Subway in New York City and the
Cape Cod Canal •
Perry Belmont – United States Representative and Army officer • Gunner
George F. Brady, USN –
Medal of Honor recipient. • Captain
Kidder Breese, USN – Commander of the
Naval Landing Party at the
Second Battle of Fort Fisher. • Brevet Brigadier General
Henry Brewerton – Superintendent of
West Point Military Academy. •
Melville Bull – United States Representative, 1895–1903 •
George Henry Calvert – Writer and Mayor of Newport • Rear Admiral
Augustus Case – Career Navy officer •
William Cole Cozzens – Mayor of Newport and Governor of Rhode Island, 1863 •
Henry Y. Cranston – United States Representative from Rhode Island and commander of the
Artillery Company of Newport •
Robert B. Cranston – United States Representative from Rhode Island •
George T. Downing (1819–1903) – abolitionist, entrepreneur, restaurateur • Lieutenant
Thomas Eadie, USN –
Medal of Honor recipient (buried in Island Cemetery Annex). •
William Channing Gibbs – Governor of Rhode Island, 1821–24 •
George Washington Greene – Historian •
John N. A. Griswold – Merchant, industrialist and diplomat • Captain
Samuel R. Honey - Army officer and Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island •
Richard Morris Hunt (1827–1895) – Noted architect of Gilded Age •
Charles Bird King (1785–1862) – Painter •
Clarence King (1842–1901) – Geologist •
George Gordon King – Congressman •
Lewis Cass Ledyard – Lawyer and Commodore of the
New York Yacht Club •
George Champlin Mason, Sr. - Architect and historian. • Captain
Christopher Raymond Perry – Privateer in the
American Revolution and naval officer in the
Quasi War • Commodore
Matthew C. Perry (1794–1858) – Commander of
Black Ships Expedition to Japan in 1853 • Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry (1785–1819) – Hero of the
Battle of Lake Erie in
War of 1812 • Lieutenant Colonel John Hare Powel – Army officer, Mayor of Newport and commander of the
Artillery Company of Newport •
George L. Rives –
Assistant Secretary of State •
William Paine Sheffield Sr. – Congressman and United States Senator 1884–85 •
William Paine Sheffield Jr. – Congressman • Major General
Thomas W. Sherman – Civil War general •
William Watts Sherman (1842–1912) – Socialite and treasurer of the Newport Casino • Brevet Brigadier General
Hazard Stevens –
Medal of Honor recipient and son of Isaac Stevens • Major General
Isaac Ingalls Stevens – Civil War general who was killed in action at the
Battle of Chantilly •
Frank K. Sturgis – President of the
New York Stock Exchange • Brevet Brigadier General
George Washington Tew – Civil War officer. Lieutenant Colonel of 5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. Commander of the
Artillery Company of Newport. • Commodore
Benjamin J. Totten – Career U.S. Navy officer •
Charles C. Van Zandt – Governor of Rhode Island 1877–80 • Major General
Gouverneur K. Warren – Chief engineer of the
Army of the Potomac at the
Battle of Gettysburg – Commander of
V Corps (1863–65) •
George Peabody Wetmore – Governor of Rhode Island and United States Senator •
Katherine Prescott Wormeley – Literary translator, founder of the
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