Olde Beachfern Cemetery
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Olde Beachfern Cemetery

Center Moriches, Suffolk County, New York, USA

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  • Get directions Main Street & Beachfern Road, Center Moriches, NY
    Center Moriches, New York, USA
    Coordinates: 40.79940, -72.78970
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Also known as: Beachfern Cemetery, Old Presbyterian Church Cemetery of Center Moriches.

This small cemetery located just south of the intersection of Main Street and Beachfern Road in Center Moriches holds the remains of five Revolutionary patriots. It also holds the remains of some of the founding fathers of this village. The earliest burial appears to be Charity Havens in 1774. The last burial was that of Abigail Post in 1843. Some of the markers may have been moved to Mt Pleasant cemetery which opened around this time.

Copies of Tombstones Inscriptions found in neglected family burying ground on the farm of Lewis G. Terry at Center Moriches, L.I. Copied Aug. 12 1897 by O.B. Ackerly – "Mr Terry bought the farm about 1855 of John C. Reeves who inherited it with his brothers Silas & Ferdinand and sisters from their father." Taken along with the inscriptions from a handwritten notebook located in the East Hampton library. There were two markers found by Ackerly that were no longer there, when around 1939 Osborn Shaw inventoried the cemetery: Rachel, wife of Benjamin Smith; and Joseph Penny, who died March 23, 1813 aged 17 years, 1 month & 11 days. Nothing further is known of him.

Revolutionary Veterans in this Cemetery:

David Hallock (1743-1812)
Selah Strong Havens (1755-1785)
Capt John Havens (1748-1809)
James Post (1741-1813)
Capt David Youngs (1745-1796)

Acknowledgement to Van Field for bringing these transcriptions to the Internet.













Also known as: Beachfern Cemetery, Old Presbyterian Church Cemetery of Center Moriches.

This small cemetery located just south of the intersection of Main Street and Beachfern Road in Center Moriches holds the remains of five Revolutionary patriots. It also holds the remains of some of the founding fathers of this village. The earliest burial appears to be Charity Havens in 1774. The last burial was that of Abigail Post in 1843. Some of the markers may have been moved to Mt Pleasant cemetery which opened around this time.

Copies of Tombstones Inscriptions found in neglected family burying ground on the farm of Lewis G. Terry at Center Moriches, L.I. Copied Aug. 12 1897 by O.B. Ackerly – "Mr Terry bought the farm about 1855 of John C. Reeves who inherited it with his brothers Silas & Ferdinand and sisters from their father." Taken along with the inscriptions from a handwritten notebook located in the East Hampton library. There were two markers found by Ackerly that were no longer there, when around 1939 Osborn Shaw inventoried the cemetery: Rachel, wife of Benjamin Smith; and Joseph Penny, who died March 23, 1813 aged 17 years, 1 month & 11 days. Nothing further is known of him.

Revolutionary Veterans in this Cemetery:

David Hallock (1743-1812)
Selah Strong Havens (1755-1785)
Capt John Havens (1748-1809)
James Post (1741-1813)
Capt David Youngs (1745-1796)

Acknowledgement to Van Field for bringing these transcriptions to the Internet.













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