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JK Green

James K. Green grew up in a house on the site of the Oyster Bay Historical Society’s Angela Koenig Research and Collection Center. The neighborhood was known as the Alley, or Tin Can Alley, and consisted of five houses, three of which were Green family residences. Reed and Chandler families lived in the other two houses.

Mr. Green recalls his early work experience in the 1940s, beginning at eight years old picking beans on the farms on Stillwell Lane in Syosset.


He could bring in fifteen bushels a day, at fifty cents a bushel.At fourteen he received his legal working papers and started nights as a pin boy at Oyster Bay’s Trio Bowling Alley on South Street, earning fifteen cents a line. Weekends he caddied at Pine Hollow Country Club.

Snouders Corner Drug Store in Oyster Bay employed Mr. Green at the business’s soda fountain—his first job out of high school—before he entered the Marine Corps in 1958.

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Oyster Bay Bible School 1949
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Bombers Club and Walter Smith (inset)
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Bombers Club
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Langston Francis and Son William
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Langston Francis
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Walter Smith

Gordon Maddox, Jr.

Gordon Maddox’s uncle John J Maddox was editor, chief contributor, and self-publisher of The Matter, a quarterly magazine whose mission was to “try and strengthen mutual respect and basic friendship toward each other, by using knowledge, education and participation as catalysts.” The first issue featured a profile of the editor’s brother Gordon Sr.

Gordon Maddox, Sr., boxed with the Police Boys Club and later with the company team at Grumman, where he worked for over twenty years.

After retirement he served as caretaker of the Hood A.M.E. Zion Church’s Pine Hollow Cemetery.

Gordon Maddox, Jr. traces his family back to his great-grandparents Lou and Mary Miller. Mary grew up on the Shinnecock reservation in Suffolk County and did domestic work at Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay. She lived to the age of 110 years. Her husband Lou was a veteran of the American Civil War. They are both buried in Cypress Hill Cemetery, one above the other.

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The Matter (cover)
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The Matter (page 3)
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The Matter (page 21)
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The Matter (page 22)
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The Matter (page 23)

Ashly Carl

Ashly Carl’s father, David Allen Carl, attended Oyster Bay’s John F. Bermingham School, which first opened in November 1962. In that inaugural year, students composed brief essays predicting life in the year 2000 and contributed them to a time capsule. When the school closed in 1982, the capsule was retrieved but remained sealed until its opening, with great fanfare, in January 2001, during a Vernon School Town Meeting.
What I Think it will be like in 2000
 
I think there won’t be any cars and planes. We will fly around in anti-gravity belts and rocket-suits and little kids will fly them. We will go to other planets and the moon. Everything on earth will be modern. There will be more new kinds of medicines to cure sickness. That’s what I think it will be like
. -- David Carl

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David Carl and Francine Carl
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David Carl and Marsha Carl
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David Carl and Percy Carl
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David Carl and Brenda Carl
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What I think it will be like in 2000
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Diploma (David Carl) Oyster Bay High School

Francine Seaman

Francine Seaman’s father, James Gordon Seaman, worked twenty-one years as a porter and custodian for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in Bethpage, New York. His employer retained a Personal Information Form which collected data on his places of residence, relatives and dependents, educational experiences, and status of employment.
The company’s stated purpose was to allow the Personnel and Welfare departments to monitor an employee’s “family status and responsibilities” and to expedite security clearances. Grumman expected such information to aid the company in placing workers to advantage regarding job satisfaction as it might relate to an employee's skills and interests.
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Manila and James Seaman
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Francine, Artie, and James Seaman
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James and Artie Seaman
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James Seaman at Grumman
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James Seaman with Artie Seaman and unidentified relative
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Lillian Seaman
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Lillian Seaman 1975
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Manila Seaman holding Arthur Seaman
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Manila Seaman holding Child
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Three Seaman Sisters (1)
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Three Seaman Sisters (2)
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Certificate of Death, James Gordon Seaman
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James Gordon Seaman, Personal Information Form
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James Gordon Seaman, Personal Information Form (verso)
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Suburban Rod and Gun Club
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Patch, Suburban Rod and Gun Club

Denice Evans-Sheppard

Author and publisher Denice Evans-Sheppard has been at work researching the Carll family’s history by following narratives that her parents and grandparents have handed down to her. She currently lives in the house of Civil War veteran and family ancestor David Carll.

A board member of the Oyster Bay Historical Society and freelance contributor to the Oyster Bay Guardian, she owns Carll Hill Publishing Emporium, an outlet for developing writers to publish their work.

David Carll (m) Mary Louisa Appleford
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Frank Carll (m) Imogen Jackson
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Percy Carll (m) Geneva Lancaster
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Barbara Carll (m) Otha Evans
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Denice Evans

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Armenia Carll Mayhew and Sam Mayhew on the Beach
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Frank Carll
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Herbert Carll
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Jesse Carll at Supply Room
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Joseph Carll
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Joseph Carll in front of the Oyster Bay Pilot
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Daisy Carll
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Wilbur Carll
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Peggy Carll Scrapbook
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Kate Carll Potter, Peggy Carll, Joseph Carll
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Edna and Jack Carll
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Peggy Carll
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Joseph Carll
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Daisy Carll, Edna Carll, and Peggy Carll
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Imogene Jackson Carll, Iris Carll-Williams, Millicent Williams (Stewart)
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Percy Carll with First African American Band
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Percy Carll in Boxing Stance
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Percy Carll

Doretha Custis

Doretha Custis’s family moved to Oyster Bay from Virginia in the early 1930s. Her grandparents, parents and siblings worked in the yards and cars of the Long Island Rail Road.

The Hood A.M.E. Zion Church had a major impact on my childhood. I

remember as a child sitting in your pews, looking up to your balcony and seeing people sitting up there. Oh, the excitement that I felt when I finally made it up those narrow stairs and was able to look down at the people. That excitement still was nothing like how I felt, when I was invited by Reverend Nelson to sit in his pulpit and soon after invited to preach…
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George Felder
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Bessie Custis and Mr. Brickhouse
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Bessie Custis
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Birthday Party
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Bessie Custis and cousin Dorothy Giddens
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Samuel Custis and Carlos James
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Bessie and Samuel Custis
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Bessie Custis at Kayler's Fish Market
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Bessie Custis, Doretha Custis, and Prula James
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Payment for Hospital Services
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Employment Reference for Bessie Custis
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Lyric Market Invoice
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Oyster Bay Success
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Oyster Bay Success (conclusion)
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