Union Cemetery - Middle Island, New York United States.
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Union Cemetery was established in 1748. There are 922 memorials. The cemetery is owend by the Union Cemetery Association, Inc of Middle Island, NY.
Waymark Code: WM1839E
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 05/21/2023
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Union Cemetery was established in 1748, a year after it's original land owner, Stephen Swezey, of Brookhaven, conveyed his land to his son James on 14 July 1747. Through many changes of ownership, along with parcels being subdivided, over the years... the Trustees of the cemetery finally took ownership of the 32 acre tract on 6 Dec. 1894.
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A burying ground was opened in the northeast corner of the present cemetery about 1766, and later five acres of land was purchased from Edward Swezey and incorporated in 1869 as the Union Cemetery of Middletown, and again reincorporated in 1960 as the Union Cemetery Association of Middle Island, Inc. This is a nonsectarian cemetery and is open to everyone.
The old part of the cemetery was never laid out in lots or surveyed, and the graves ran in rows that have been numbered from one to fifteen, running north from the center driveway.(source) (
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Albert Edwin Bayles Born: 14 June 1839 Death: 2 June 1864(age 24)(source) (
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Edward F Bayles Born: 16 Dec 1841 Death: 2 June 1864(age 22) (source) (
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Samuel W. Randall Born: 1807 Death: 13 Mar 1888(age 80-81)(source) (
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