MILFORD UNION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION was incorporated on May 29, 1858 suggesting a strong possibility that the formation of this Association was a case as in so many other instances of the town’s history where its citizens worked together to solve a community need. The local Presbyterian Church had been formed some 25 years previous to 1858 and certainly had its own burying ground since one of the courses of the Union Cemetery’s deed mentions “the existing Presbyterian burial grounds along the road from Milford to Mount Pleasant”. The Christian Church also had been in existence for some years with its own burial yard to the rear of the church structure. As these church bodies looked to the future they saw the need for a non-denominational cemetery to serve the needs of the community so as the name implies there was a “Union” of their interests in supporting the newly formed Association. There is some obscurity about the date of the first buring grounds in the vicinity. The earliest gravestones in the “Union Cemetery” indicate Charles Rittenhouse was buried in 1822 and Martha A. Runyon in 1831 which dates precede the beginning of the Milford Presbyterian Church in its yard.