Smith Family Graveyard
Nissequogue, Suffolk County, New York, USA
The Smith Family Graveyard is located on Nissequogue Hill. It served as the burial ground for members of the family of Richard Smith, patentee of Smithtown.
The oldest confirmed burial is that of Obadiah Smith, a son of the patentee, who drowned in 1680 in the Nissequogue River.
A diagram of the burial site from The Family of Richard Smith (by Frederick Kinsman Smith, 1967, page 28) provides a layout for 15 markers remaining in the early to mid 20th century (undated, but prior to 1940).
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▫ Cemetery disposition: Inactive.
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The burial site is north of Moriches Road, in the Village of Nissequogue, just to the west of the T intersection of River Road and Moriches Road. Walk west on Moriches Road from the intersection along the shoulder of the road approximately 50 feet to a path on the right that leads up a hill to a fenced cemetery.
NOTE: The path leading to the cemetery was mostly overgrown as of July 2015.
The Smith Family Graveyard is located on Nissequogue Hill. It served as the burial ground for members of the family of Richard Smith, patentee of Smithtown.
The oldest confirmed burial is that of Obadiah Smith, a son of the patentee, who drowned in 1680 in the Nissequogue River.
A diagram of the burial site from The Family of Richard Smith (by Frederick Kinsman Smith, 1967, page 28) provides a layout for 15 markers remaining in the early to mid 20th century (undated, but prior to 1940).
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▫ Cemetery disposition: Inactive.
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The burial site is north of Moriches Road, in the Village of Nissequogue, just to the west of the T intersection of River Road and Moriches Road. Walk west on Moriches Road from the intersection along the shoulder of the road approximately 50 feet to a path on the right that leads up a hill to a fenced cemetery.
NOTE: The path leading to the cemetery was mostly overgrown as of July 2015.
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- Added: 25 Oct 2014
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2557984
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