Dale Cemetery
Grave marker of Benjamin and Virginia Brandreth at the Dale Cemetery in Ossining, NY as it appeared in November, 2008
Details
Established1851
Location
Ossining, NY
CountryUnited States
Coordinates41°10′16″N 73°51′22″W / 41.171039°N 73.856059°W / 41.171039; -73.856059
Owned byTown of Ossining
Size47 acres (190,000 m2)
Websitedalecemetery.com
Find a GraveDale Cemetery

The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York is a town-owned rural 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] It was designed by Howard Daniels.[4] At its dedication Professor C. Mason said, that we build cemeteries "for the use, the pleasure, the instruction, the edification of the living."[5] Its first President was Aaron Ward, retired congressman.[6] The cemetery was acquired by the Town of Ossining in 2004.[7]

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)
  • 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".

See also

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 (1860). Gazetteer of the State of New York. New York: R. Pearsall Smith. p. 704. dale cemetery sing.
  3. ↑ The Dale Cemetery, (at Claremont, Near Sing-Sing,) (1853)
  4. ↑ Linden, Blanche M.G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Cambridge: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  5. ↑ Alfred L. Brophy, "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. New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing. pp. 245. Retrieved 9 June 2009. dale cemetery ossining.
  7. ↑ "About Historic Dale Cemetery". Archived from the original on 2009-10-10. Retrieved 2009-04-21.
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