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Pettit Cemetery
Fortesque Avenue
Oceanside, NY
between Ayers and Clive Place


 "As one goes north of Fortesque Avenue from the Parsonage Farm House, (now the Peace residence at the fork of Brower Avenue and Harold Street) there is a small plot of high ground on the right, just before crossing a small stream. This has been incorrectly called the "Mormon Cemetery," but it was actually the family burial plot of the Pettits long before the founding of the Mormon faith. There rest many of those who worked and played leading roles in the affairs of Christian Hook in the nineteenth century."*
* Source:  Schoolhouse green http://www.schoolhousegreen.com/History%20of%20Oceanside-%201800-1850.html

A special thanks to Bob Naumann of Florida, who donated the following information. Bob grew up in Oceanside and as a boy in the 1950's he played in this cemetery. He is descended from the Pettit line.
The following information is from a book:
"A History Of The White Man In That Part Of The Town Of Hempstead Called Oceanside", that is in the Oceanside library. The book was written around 1940. The book indicates that the headstones were read at that time.

In Memory of Mary
wife of James Pettit
Died July 22, 1819
aged 77 years

Ethan
son of Ira and Mary Ann Pettit
Died Sept 5, 1848

Arthur W. Pettit and Amanda
Sept 10, 1855 Sept 17, 1855
Children of John S. and Eliza Pettit

Martha A. wife of Richard A. Hicks
Died 1854 - Aged 59 years

Richard A. Hicks
Died Nov. 2, 1855
aged 63 years

John S. Pettit
Died June 22 1860- Aged 57 years
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