Shelley, The Rhode Island Historical Society Library has a cemetery database where you can look up individual cemeteries and a master name index where you can look up by last name. I would suggest the local Historical Society or go to the town hall. The town clerk's office should have death records where you could, perhaps, find out the date of death and, maybe even, the cemetery he is buried in. Also, have you tried a gen-web. Family Tree.com has one and you don't need to me a member to post an inquiry on the gen-web board. You would be surprised. Someone doing their own cemetery search may have come across old Alpheus and could answer your posting. Give it a try. I, myself, need a bumper sticker that reads,"Warning! I break for historic cemeteries." I have found a lot of Thayer's that way. Let me know if any of my suggestions bring you any luck. Debbie