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Totten Farm or Crossman Cemetery

   
Located on Half Hollow Road opposite Hart Road in the Half Hollow Hills section of the Town of Huntington, this cemetery is known by two names. The more traditional name is "Totten Farm" cemetery. The 1990 booklet "Huntington Historic Cemeteries" calls it "Crossman (Totten)" cemetery. The following data is copied from an inventory supplied by the Town Historian's Office, Town of Huntington. The booklet on Huntington's cemeteries gives the date of August 1977 for a survey of this cemetery. The cemetery is a Town of Huntington Local Historic Site. Material in [     ] was added by the submitter, David Roberts, from his published "Deaths Reported by the 'Long Islander' 1878-1890," his on-line "Deaths Reported by the 'Long Islander' 1891-1900" available on-line at this site., or from his personal files on his ancestor Letty Blachly.
 
Data supplied by the Town Historian, Town of Huntington

BLACHLY
Isaac, [son of Henry & Letty], b. 18 October 1824, d. 17 June 1885 ["Blachley"   d. 16 June 1885, Dix Hills]
Henry, d. 17 May 1882, 80 yrs 4 mos      ["Blachley"   d. Half Hollow Hills]
Letty, wife of Henry, d. 16 August 1869 - 75 years    [Letty {SMITH} first married Alexander LEWIS; he was killed in a horse racing accident at Babylon in 1821;
following Alexander's death, Letty married Henry. She is the submitter's great-great-great-great-grandmother.]

BROWN
Hugh Byron, d. 12 July 1898 - 71 years
Sarah Louise {CROSSMAN}, daughter of Asahel & Sabra CROSSMAN, wife of Hugh , d. 12 June 1871 - 50 years

CRAWSON
Sarah M., daughter of James & Eliza, d. 11 December 1837, 3 yrs 5 mos 11 days

CROSSMAN
Simeon, d. 1 November 1830, 81 yrs 4 mos 17 days
Sarah, wife of Simeon, d. 22 June 1829, 79 yrs 3 mos
Asahel, d. 14 February 1850 - 73 years
Sabra, wife of Asahel, d. 24 December 1822, 42 yrs 10 mos 16 days
Alanson, d. 7 October 1837, 43 yrs 5 mos 16 days
Betsy, d. 12 October 1836, 53 yrs 5 mos 9 days

DAWSON
Andrew, d. 23 May 1873 - 42 years; native of Scotland
Alexander, d. 12 May 1870 - 35 years; native of Fifeshire, Scotland
Alexander, d. 18 January 1859, 67 yrs 4 ---; native of Fifeshire, Scotland
Isabella, wife of Alexander, d. 6 June 1872 - 70 years
Jane, daughter of Alexander & Isabella, d. 28 June 1901 - 74 years

HOLMES
Oliver S., b. 30 June 1820, d. 15 April 1895
Margaret Ann, wife of Oliver, b. 16 November 1832, d. 18 December 1890
Elda E., daughter of Elliott & Julia Marsh, d. 8 September 1852, 2 mos 6 days

KIRKLAND
Andrew, d. 4 May 1891, 56 yrs 1 mo 17 days     [d. Half Hollow Hills; "invalid confined to his bed for 21 years having fallen from a wagon and injured his spine"]
Elizabeth {DAWSON}, wife of Andrew, d. 26 January 1916 [? - unclear on copy], 81 yrs 3 mos 22 days

MC CROSKEY
Herman, d. 19 June 1881, 33 yrs 2 mos 10 days
George R., d. 11 February 1872, 36 yrs 6 mos 8 days
Laura {CROSSMAN}, wife of Gawn, d. 190 June 1882, 70 yrs 11 mos

ROBBINS
Needham, d. 1 March 1883 - 32 yrs 1 mo 7 days
Thomas S., d. 29 October 1886, 77 yrs 3 mos 7 days
Phebe, wife of Thomas S., d. 16 May 1857, 34 yrs 5 mos 24 days
Deborah, wife of Thomas S., d. 16 October 1853, 50 yrs 2 mos 15 days

SWEZEY

Janet {DAWSON}, daughter of Alexander & Isabella DAWSON, d. 7 October 1898, 73 yrs 9 mos 22 days  [Name of husband not given]

WEBSTER
James, b. 1809, d. 1874
Euphemia K., b. 1809, d. 1888

TOTTEN
Alexander, b. --5 March 1809, d. 2 April 1882     [d. Half Hollow Hills]
Mary {CROSSMAN}, wife of Alexander, b. 20 October 1814, d. 7 May 1900
Homer G., b. 2 December 1842, d. 24 July 1910
Mary Elizabeth, b. 19 March 1846, d. 18 February 1921

WICKES
Elizabeth {KIRKLAND}, wife of H. Warren, b. 3 May 1870, d. 27 March 1921