Dale Cemetery

Description

The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York, is a town-owned cemetery encompassing 47 acre. The cemetery was originally owned by the Dale Cemetery Association which was incorporated on 16 January 1851 and was dedicated in October 1851. It was designed by Howard Daniels. At its dedication Professor C. Mason said, that we build cemeteries "for the use, the pleasure, the instruction, the edification of the living." Its first President was Aaron Ward, retired congressman. The cemetery was acquired by the Town of Ossining in 2004.

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
• Chester Hoff (1891–1998), Oldest ex-Major League Baseball player at time of death. He played for the NY Highlanders (later the NY Yankees) and St. Louis Browns.
• John Thompson Hoffman (1828–1888), governor of New York (1869–72), Mayor of New York City (1866–68)
• Ingersoll Lockwood (1841–1918), lawyer and writer (Section A)
• 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), who in 1851 was moved from his earlier burial site and became the first person interred at Dale Cemetery. He was a possible inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in his friend Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

References

References

1. (July 26, 2013). "National Register of Historic Places listings for July 26, 2013". U.S. [[National Park Service]].
2. French, John Homer. (1860). "Gazetteer of the State of New York". R. Pearsall Smith.
3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_4kvAAAAYAAJ&dq=dale+cemetery+address+1851&pg=PA5 The Dale Cemetery, (at Claremont, Near Sing-Sing,)] (1853)
4. (2007). "Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery". University of Massachusetts Press.
5. Alfred L. Brophy, [https://ssrn.com/abstract=2304305 "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery]
6. Ward, George Kemp. (1910). "Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597–1910". A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing.
7. "About Historic Dale Cemetery".