Union Cemetery, Middle Island, Ny (Suffolk County)
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.
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