The Eagle - Roger Williams Park
Local artist Gail Whitsitt-Lynch received a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Rhode Island State Council on the Arts in 1976 to create this statue in commemoration of Rhode Island’s bicentennial. She made the eagle with the ferrocement method, which uses equal amounts of metal and cement. The Eagle is covered with marble dust, which gives it a sparkly appearance. Many new United States citizens have had their photos taken with The Eagle over the years.
Olney Farm Cemetery - North Providence, RI
Biography of Captain Stephen Olney
Stephen Olney entered the service as an ensign in Hitchcock’s Regiment (14th Continentals) May 1775, joining the Continental Army’s 11th Continental Infantry in January, 1776 as a Lieutenant and participating in the siege of Boston, battles of Long Island, Harlem Heights, White Plains, Second Trenton, and Princeton. He became a Captain in the Second Rhode Island in January, 1777 where he saw service at the Battles of Red Bank, Monmouth, Rhode Island, and Springfield, where he was wounded. By act of Congress the 2nd Rhode Island and 1st Rhode Island were merged along with Sherburne’s Battilion and served at the siege of Yorktown under Lafayette.
More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Olney
Names of additional family graves: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2216774/olney-farm-cemetery