Dale Cemetery

The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York is a town-owned cemetery encompassing 47 acres (19 ha) and has been operational since October 1851. In 2013 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]

Description

The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York is a town-owned cemetery encompassing 47 acres (190,000 m²).^[2] The cemetery was originally owned by the Dale Cemetery Association which was incorporated on 16 January 1851 and was dedicated in October 1851.^[3] At its dedication Professor C. Mason said, that we build cemeteries "for the use, the pleasure, the instruction, the edification of the living."^[4] Its first President was Aaron Ward, retired congressman.^[5] The cemetery was acquired by the Town of Ossining in 2004.^[6]

Notable interments

• Thomas Allcock (1815-1891), Civil War General for the Union Army
• Franz Boas (1858-1942), the "Father of American Anthropology"
• Benjamin Brandreth (1807-1880), proprietor of Brandreth's Pills, one of the earliest mass market consumer branded products in the United States, founder of Brandreth Park
• John Thompson Hoffman (1828-1888), governor of New York (1869-1872), Mayor of New York City (1866-1868)
• Edwin A. McAlpin (1848-1917), president of the D.H. McAlpin & Co tobacco company, builder of the Hotel McAlpin, the largest hotel in the world, and Adjutant General of the State of New York
• Sonny Sharrock (1940-1994), jazz guitarist
• Aaron Ward (1790-1867), American Congressman
• Samuel Youngs (1760-1839), first interment at Dale Cemetery, inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in his friend Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
• Chester Hoff (1891 - 1998), Oldest ex Major League Baseball player at time of death. Played for NY Highlanders (later NY Yankees) and St. Louis Browns.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York

References

1. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places listings for July 26, 2013". U.S. National Park Service. July 26, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2013. 
2. ↑ French, John Homer; Place, Frank. Gazetteer of the State of New York. New York: R. Pearsall Smith. p. 704. 
3. ↑ The Dale Cemetery, (at Claremont, Near Sing-Sing,) (1853)
4. ↑ Alfred L. Brophy, "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery
5. ↑ Ward, George Kemp (1910). Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597-1910. New York, NY: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing. p. 245. Retrieved 9 June 2009. 
6. ↑ "About Historic Dale Cemetery". Retrieved 2009-04-21. 

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