Dale Cemetery
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| File:Benjamin Brandreth Grave.JPG Grave marker of Benjamin and Virginia Brandreth at the Dale Cemetery in Ossining, NY as it appeared in November, 2008 | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1851 |
| Location | Ossining, NY |
| Country | United States |
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| Owned by | Town of Ossining |
| Size | 47 acres (190,000 m2) |
| Website | dalecemetery |
| Find a Grave | Dale 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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- 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".
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ The Dale Cemetery, (at Claremont, Near Sing-Sing,) (1853)
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- ^ Alfred L. Brophy, "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery
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