The Miles Family Cemetery is difficult to find. It is
located in the woods, on private property, along Goshen Street (County Route
14), west of Pangman Road, in the Town of Jewett, Greene County, NY. Behind a
house designated as Jewett Fire District #236 is a small pond, and to the left
of the pond is an old logging road that passes by the cemetery. It is enclosed
by a stone wall and there are a number of fieldstones. Most of the people buried
here were descended from Captain Daniel Miles and his wife, Olive Hall, of
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
These inscriptions were read on October 14, 2000, by Susan
Neugebauer, the Jewett Town Historian, and Patricia Morrow, the Windham Town
Historian.
Abbreviations: b - born; Co. - Company; d - day(s), died;
dau - daughter; m - month(s); Pvt - Private; Regt - Regiment; y - year(s)
Roland E. Miles - b. 30 Apr 1877, d. 12 May 1957 NEW YORK PVT CO. D 5 REGT
INFANTRY [son of Marcus Miles & Clara Osborn]
R. Howard Miles - b. [21 Sep] 1848, d. [7 Dec] 1913 [son of George
W. Miles & Sarah A. Merwin]
Martha Merwin, his wife - b. 1865, d. 1885 [dau of Horace Merwin &
Harriet Clough]
(front) George W. Miles - b. 1820, d. 1886 [son of George Miles &
Susan ?]
Sarah A. Merwin, his wife - b. 1820, d. 1864 [dau of Leverett Merwin &
Hannah Ormsbee]
(back) Eudora Miles - b. 1852, d. 1876 [dau of George W. Miles & Sarah
A. Merwin]
G. Watson Miles - b. 1859, d. 1900 [George Watson Miles, son of George W.
Miles & Sarah A. Merwin; he died 31 Aug 1900 at Binghamton, Broome
County, NY]
Harriet Williams - b. 1874, d. 1915 [dau of Marcus Miles & Clara
Osborn; wife of Abram Williams]
(supposedly buried here, but no gravestone was found) [Daniel
Miles - d. 9 Jan 1955, aged 66y 2m 25d]