1949 — Elizabeth Tilley Howland Memorial Gravestone, Little Neck Cemetery, Riverside, RI
The Pilgrim John Howland Society placed a memorial stone on the grave of Elizabeth, the only Pilgrim buried in Rhode Island. The text reads: "Here ended the Pilgrimage of ELIZABETH TILLEY HOWLAND who died Wednesday 21-31 Dec. 1687 at home of her daughter LYDIA & husband JAMES BROWN IN Swanzea. ELIZABETH married Pilgrim JOHN HOWLAND who came with her in the Mayflower Dec. 1620. From them descended a numerous posterity. In ELIZABETH'S Will the following inspiring language is used ‘It is my will and charge to all my Children that they walke in ye Feare of ye Lord, and in Love and Peace towards each other.’" Historic Little Neck Cemetery is on Little Neck Avenue in Riverside.