Conklin Family Burying Grounds
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Conklin Family Burying Grounds

Wyandanch, Suffolk County, New York, USA

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    Coordinates: 40.76167, -73.38126
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This is a very old family burying ground located on private property.The cemetery was established by Capt. Jacob Conklin, the original settler of this area(now known as Wheatley Heights)and contains the remains of some members of his immediate family and their descendents.
All access is tightly restricted due to the historic nature of this cemetery.

Romanah Sammis gives this sympathetic description in the Huntington-Babylon Town History:
"Among the early farm homes of the Half Way Hollow Hills, the Jacob Conklin house unquestionably was the finest. Built in 1710 and destroyed by fire in 1918, only photographs of it remain to us, but for these we are grateful. It stood on the western slope of the southern hills, and its site is easily found.
"Going south from Melville on the Pinelawn Road and looking across to the hills to the east, the light of the afternoon sun falling on the gravestones in the old Conklin burial plot on a hilltop, you behold one of the highest points in the town of Babylon; and down the steep slope from the burial place, is a broad opening of comparatively level ground where great oaks and walnut trees stand. Here Jacob Conklin built his home."







This is a very old family burying ground located on private property.The cemetery was established by Capt. Jacob Conklin, the original settler of this area(now known as Wheatley Heights)and contains the remains of some members of his immediate family and their descendents.
All access is tightly restricted due to the historic nature of this cemetery.

Romanah Sammis gives this sympathetic description in the Huntington-Babylon Town History:
"Among the early farm homes of the Half Way Hollow Hills, the Jacob Conklin house unquestionably was the finest. Built in 1710 and destroyed by fire in 1918, only photographs of it remain to us, but for these we are grateful. It stood on the western slope of the southern hills, and its site is easily found.
"Going south from Melville on the Pinelawn Road and looking across to the hills to the east, the light of the afternoon sun falling on the gravestones in the old Conklin burial plot on a hilltop, you behold one of the highest points in the town of Babylon; and down the steep slope from the burial place, is a broad opening of comparatively level ground where great oaks and walnut trees stand. Here Jacob Conklin built his home."







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