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Brush Cemetery, West Hills
    An inventory of this family cemetery, located on Round Swamp Road, in the West Hills section of the Town of Huntington, was done by Dean H. Velsor on 9 September 1962. A notation in the 1990 publication "Huntington Historic Cemeteries" says the grave markers are "mostly broken." Due to its location near the extreme western edge of the Town of Huntington and Suffolk County, the location of this cemetery was sometimes noted in the "Long Islander" as being in Woodbury, a community in the Town of Oyster Bay, present Nassau County, just to the west of this cemetery. The Brush Cemetery on Round Swamp Road is a Town of Huntington Local Historic Site. Material in these brackets (    ) come from Mr. Velsor's 1962 inventory, usually to mark information that was unclear on the stones he was reading. Material in these brackets [    ] was added by the submitter, David Roberts, from his published "Deaths Reported by the 'Long Islander' 1878-1890" or his on-line "Deaths Reported by the 'Long Islander' 1891-1900"  available on-line at this site.
 
Data copied from Dean Velsor's 1962 Inventory

BENTON (?)
Mary, wife of John, d. 23 May 1890 (?), 67 yrs 3 mos 18 days

BRUSH
Thomas J., son of Benjamin & Jane, d. --- July 1904, 54 yrs 7 mos 28 days
Ezekiel, son of Benjamin & Jane, d. 24 June 1898, 61 yrs 8 mos 22 days  [d.Cold Spring Harbor]
David, son of Benjamin & Jane, d. 17 April 1874, 41 yrs 7 mos 8 days
James, son of Benjamin & Jane, d. -----------. 50 yrs 6 mos 20 days
Benjamin, d. 3 November 1871, 72 yrs -- mos 6 days
Jane, wife of Benjamin, d. 4 February 1896, 85 yrs 1 mo 4 days    [d. Cold Spring Harbor, pneumonia]
John S., d. 1 July 1868, 86 yrs 2 mo 24 days
Jane, wife of John S., d. 29 March 1875, 83 yrs 25 days
Benjamin, d. 25 May 1819, 75 years 7 mos 25 days
Ann, wife of Benjamin d. 7 January 1817, 92 yrs [72 yrs ?] 4 mos 7 days
James, d. 16 November 1848, 41 yrs (?) 1 mo 16 days
Charles, son of James & Letty, d. 10 June 1846, 5 yrs 3 mo 20 days
Louisa, daughter of James & Letty, d. 5 May 1840, 2 yrs 6 mos
Louisa, daughter of James & Letty d. 14 (?) April 1837, 1 yr (?) 5 mos 13 days
Mary, daughter of James & Letty, d. 24 October 1850, 4 yrs 23 days
Ezekiel, d. 2 March 1862, 82 yrs 11 mos 11 days
Elizabeth, wife of Ezekiel, d. 4 (?) May 1861, 64 yrs 7 mos 2 days

BENNETT
Ann {BRUSH}, daughter of Ezekiel & Elizabeth BRUSH, wife of Nicholas, d. 5
May 1829, 32 yrs 5 mo 4 days

BRUSH

Margaret, daughter of Ezekiel & Elizabeth, d. 11 October 1817, 8 yrs 28 days
Ezekiel, son of Ezekiel & Elizabeth, d. 7 October 1817, 6 yrs 8 mos 2 days

SURNAME ILLEGIBLE
Amelia, daughter of Lydia Amelia ---------, wife of -------------

BRUSH
David, d. 17 May 1879, 72 yrs 8 mos   [d. Woodbury]
Elvira A., wife of David, d. 13 April 1843, 44 yrs 7 mos 12 days
Elsay A., daughter of David & Elvira, d. 6 March 1832, 3 yrs 3 mos
Amelia {BRUSH}, daughter of Zebulon BRUSH, wife of David, d. 11 January 1876, 69 yrs 6 mos 10 (?) days
David, (possibly son of David & Amelia)  [no dates given]
Susan, (possibly daughter of David & Amelia), d. 1847  (?)
Charles H., d. 25 April 1898, 45 yrs 2 mo 6 days      [d. 24 April 1898,
Long Island State Hospital, Kings Park; "former resident of West Hills"]
Ezekiel, b. 5 January 1821, d. 7 April 1891   [d. West Hills]
Emeline, wife of Ezekiel, b. 6 April 1832, d. 10 November 1915
Andrew, b. 25 February 1819, d. 31 March 1904
Charity, wife of Andrew, b. 16 May 1822, d. 20 April 1906
Andrew V., son of Andrew & Charity, d. 28 March 1892, 36 yrs 6 mos    [d. Huntington]
Emily Frances, daughter of Andrew & Charity, d. 8 September 1872, 11 yrs 11 mos
Thomas, d. 6 March 1860 - 77 years
Hepseby, wife of Thomas - d. 24 August 1872 - 86 years

GILES
William H., b. 3 August 1849, d. 19 June 1910
Sarah A., wife of William H., b. 15 August 1822, d. 3 December 1911

HAGEN
William, b. 18 June 1833, d. 25 September 1872
Elizabeth A. {BRUSH}, wife of William, v. 9 January 1845, d. 1 March 1914
Leslie, b. 24 February 1871, d. 19 August 1874

HARRISON
Mary, wife of Thomas, d. 5 October 1878, 46 yrs 2 mos 5 days

KINNEY
Elizabeth, wife of George, d. 21 October 1879 - 66 years     [d. Cold Spring Harbor]

JONES
Thomas, d. 6 January 1874, 47 yrs 10 mos 20 days
Mary J., wife of Thomas, d. 13 October 1908, 78 yrs 1 mo 8 days

PURDY
David Husted, d. 19 September 1858, 47 yrs 7 mos 4 days
Eliza [{BRUSH}], wife of David H., d. 8 November 1897, 79 (?) yrs 4 mos [d. West Hills, 79 yrs 4 mos; "a prominent member of the M. E. Church"]
 ----------, ------- of George W. & ---------, b. 10 April 1830, d. 20 October 1831