Grave markers returned

In 2016, three gravestones were discovered which had been lost for years. One stone, found in Pennsylvania, was a 12 x 24 marker for a 1-year-old child. The others were 1835 stones for a Newport woman, which were found in a Newport yard during a renovation. The recovered stones were reset in the Common Burying Ground in 2016 by the Newport Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission.^[3]

In 2017, two more burial stones found in Pennsylvania, those of Violet and Duchess Quamino, were returned and restored.^[4] Duchess Quamino, a free Black woman formerly enslaved to William Ellery Channing, had been an active member of Newport's African community.^[4]

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.
• 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.
• Peter Quire – African-American leader and founder of St. John's Episcopal Church in Newport.
• Duchess Quamino (1739–1804), a formerly enslaved woman, known as the "Pastry Queen of Rhode Island^[4]
• Asher Robbins – United States Senator 1825–39.
• Zingo Stevens - Enslaved stone carver.
• 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
• 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
• Sara Swan Whiting Belmont Rives – 1st wife of Oliver H.P. Belmont and 2nd wife George L. Rives
• Yeoman (F) 3rd Class Gladys Carr Bolhouse – U.S. Navy veteran of World War I and local historian.
• 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^[5]
• 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
• Richard Morris Hunt (1827–1895) – Noted architect of Gilded Age^[5]
• Charles Bird King (1785–1862) – Painter
• Clarence King (1842–1901) – Geologist^[5]
• George Gordon King – Congressman
• Lewis Cass Ledyard – Lawyer and Commodore of the New York Yacht Club
• 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^[5]
• Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785–1819) – Hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in War of 1812^[5]
• 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 United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War

Common Burial Ground

• Original grave slab for Governor John Cranston on left, and newer slab for both him and his son, Governor Samuel Cranston, on right
• Table marker for Governor Samuel Ward on left; brick vault for his father, Governor Richard Ward, on right
• Enclosed plot for Deputy Governor William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• William Ellery grave inscription
• Grave plaque for William Ellery
• Ida Lewis monument

Island Cemetery

• Island Cemetery in 2009
• Entrance building
• Overgrown cemetery chapel
• Chapel
• Hole in the Chapel roof
• Grave of Richard Morris Hunt
• Grave of Richard Morris Hunt