UNION CEMETERY, MIDDLE ISLAND, NY (SUFFOLK COUNTY) Union Cemetery of Middle Island, NY Biographic Sketches and Notes of Interred Persons GPS: 40.877932, -72.963517 141 Middle Country Rd Middle Island, NY 11953 Officially, 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. Union Cemetery ADAMS, GEORGE, 1877-1946 age 69 ADAMS, IDA, 1893-1971 age 78 AHRLICH, HERTA, Born May 30 1908 Died April 13 1974 age 65, Middle Island resident ALBIN, EARL, was born December 22 1909 and died November 15 1999 Age 89. He served in World War II as a PFC in the Army ALBIN, GEORGE, Died 1932 age 64, married Alice Edwards from Swezeytown (Middle Island) in 1897 and built a house there, the house still stands. They raised a son Leroy. ALBIN, LEROY, "ROY", was born in 1905 who graduated from New York University and began teaching Sept. 1929 in the new East Middle Island Schoolhouse (District # 17). After four years he became an English teacher in the Port Jefferson High School. He lived in the home that his parents built in Swezeytown Road. On July 7, 1942 Leroy was inducted into the Army and reported to Camp Upton, Long Island on July 21. After 3 days there he was sent to Camp Gruber, Oklahoma which had opened in May 1942. In July the 88th Infantry Division began training there and LeRoy was assigned to Company D in the 349th Regiment. Company D was a heavy weapons company and Roy achieved the rank of Sergeant. He was home on a 10 day furlough in December and remained in Camp Gruber until May 28, 1943 when he qualified for the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) which had began that month. The ASTP was a controversial program under which qualified men were sent to college to study engineering and other technical subjects. He remained in the Army until August 1945, during that time he also attended college at A&M in Oklahoma and Purdue in Indiana. He returned to his position as English teacher at Port Jefferson High School and remained there until his retirement. He died in 1976 at the age of 71. http://www.interment.net/us/ny/suffolk.htm UNION CEMETERY, MIDDLE ISLAND, NY (SUFFOLK COUNTY) ALLEN, ADA AMELIA, was born June 7 1868 and died July 16 1943 at the age of 75. Wife of Reverend Frederick Allen, they were married in New Haven Connecticut ALLEN, FREDERICK E., Died in 1930 at the age of 79 at his home in Port Jefferson. A graduate of Rutgers University he was Pastor of Southaven Presbyterian Church. AMSLER, NANCY, Died on November 12, 2008. Wife of Donny. Loving mother of Ted, Dana and Dawn. Cherished grandmother of Ashley and Dakota AMUNDSEN, ANN MC ALISTER, 1916-1991 ALVAREZ, JOSE died June 2003 ANELLO, JOSEPH, was born on June 4 1922 in Nassau County. When he was 15 years old and living in Franklin Square his father died. He left school and got a job setting pins for 2 1/2 cents each, to help bring money to help support his mother and sister during the depression. He joined the Merchant Marines in World War II where he delivered supplies to Allied troops and ferried injured soldiers back to their bases, his ship was stationed off the coast of Normandy. He worked for Newsday from 1966 to 1986 as a circulation district manager. He and his wife and two children lived in Centereach and St. James, He died in December of 2010 at St. Catherine's Hospital in Smithtown of cardiac arrest. ANELLO, LUCILLE NORDMARK, was born March 11 1923, she met her husband of 63 years while both were elementary school in Franklin Square. she died April 12 2008 at the age of 85 ANTSMAN, OSCAR, 1908-1979 ANTSMAN, OLGA, 1912-1983 ARMSTRONG, ANDREW, Died in October 19, 1961 at the age of 62. He suffered a fatal heart attack while driving along Northern State Parkway in Plainview with his wife. The car veered off the road and hit a guard rail. His wife was not hurt. He was survived by his wife Margaret and daughter Eleanor. The Armstrongs lived in Shoreham and New York City. They were married in 1922. ARMSTRONG, MARGARET, Born in 1897 and died February 5 1984,age 87. Wife of the late Andrew. Formally of Shoreham. She was survived by two sisters, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren ATLAS, AIME KASSIK, Born September 11, 1929 in Tallin, Estonia, the largest city and capitol of Estonia. She fled to Sweden in 1944 and came to the United States ten years later. Attending Upsala College and Pratt Institute in New York. Mrs Atlas was senior librarian at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood for 19 years, gaining the respect of fellow employees as well as patients. She was one of four librarians in the country chosen to develop criteria for library services for Physciatric Hospitals. She also worked part time at half Hollow Hills Community Library. She died January 4th 1989 after a five year battle with liver cancer at Sloan Kettering Hospital in Manhatten. She was married to Paul, a son and her mother Elsie Kassik survived her. http://www.interment.net/us/ny/suffolk.htm UNION CEMETERY, MIDDLE ISLAND, NY (SUFFOLK COUNTY) BACH,HENRY, was born on November 23 1892 and lived in Holtsville at the time of his death Died February 1, 1966 age 73. BACH, MARTHA, 1897-1977 BACH, RICHARD L., 1927-1975 BACZENSKY, ETHEL, of Coram Died Oct 14 1959 age 50 at Southshore Convalescent home Patchogue. She was the first wife of Captain Jacob Baczensky, Brookhaven Town Police Captain. She was a Prominent member of Brookhaven Town Republican Committe and Co-Chair for 25 years and a member of the Coram Fire Department Ladies Auxillary BADEAU, DAVID, 1884-1955 BADEAU, EMMA M., 1884-1980 BAILEY, CHARITY ACKERLY, Wife of John. Died November 1783 age 40 BAILEY, JOHN, was born in Setauket in 1744, and died in 1802 age 59. he married Charity Ackerly. After her death he was married again to Temperence. John fathered six children BAILEY, RUTH, Died 1781 3 years old, the daughter of John and Charity. One of six children. BALLAS, ANNA, Died 1949 age 65 BAXTER, CHARLES, Died in February 9th 1931 at the age of 91 in a rooming house in Port Jefferson. He was a Civil War Veteran 34th Independent Battery NY Light Artillery from 1863 to 1865 taking part in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Frederickburg, Vickburg, and Knoxville among others. he became forgetful and although he often spoke of having twelve children, he was unable to remember their names or where they lived. Upon his death, his funeral and burial was arranged by the Wilson Ritch Post of the American Legion. BAXTER, JANE, died 1910 age 65, wife of Charles BAYLES, ALBERT, E., b. June 14, 1839 d. age 25, killed in Civil War in 1864. BAYLES, EDWARD, b. Decemeber 16, 1841 d. age 23, killed in Civil War in 1864 Both were two of three sons born in Coram, to Richard and Harmony (Swezey) Bayles. The boys were aged 7 and 5 when their father died and lived on the family farm with their mother. When she passed away they went to live with their Uncle Edward Swezey in Middle Island on the north side of Middle Country Road across from where Bartlett Pond Park is now located. They enlisted in the Army in 1862 joining Company A of the 139th New York Volunteers. They eventually were sent to Fort Monroe Virginia. After moving being stationed at Williamsburg in Virginia, their unit saw the first action April http://www.interment.net/us/ny/suffolk.htm UNION CEMETERY, MIDDLE ISLAND, NY (SUFFOLK COUNTY) 12th 1863. Battles increased in 1864, they wrote home in February that their unit lost 60-70 men.At 4:30 AM on June 3rd The Army of the Potomic began to march toward the Confederate lines. The Confederates opened fire with Union soldiers falling like bowling pins. Albert was shot first and as his brother tried to reach him he too was killed by a sharpshooter. Within a half hour 7000 Union soldiers lay dead or wounded. Edward and Albert were buried near the battlefield, and then later to a nearby national cemetery. Two monuments with their names were placed at Middle Island in their honor (Information excerpted from Longwood During the Civil War by Paul Infranco and Guy Mastrion 2002) BAYLES, ALBERT E., was born December 23 1897 and died in June 1963 at the age of 66 of a heart attack at his home. He was well known in the community and had an insurance business that he inherited from his father Richard which began in 1877. He also was mechanically inclined and known to repair anything from watches to automobiles and took an interest in photography, photographing people and places and doing his own developing and printing. He left a brother Thomas and nephew Donald and was a member of the Middle Island Presbyterian Church for fifty years. He kept a diary which he began in 1899 and kept regularly until 1956 with other entrees until 1961 that led to a book entitled "A lifetime in Middle Island" compiled by his nephew Donald Bayles in 2008.