Dale Cemetery
{{short description|Historic cemetery in New York, United States}}
{{Infobox Cemetery
|name = Dale Cemetery
|image = Benjamin Brandreth Grave.JPG
|imagesize = 250px
|caption = Grave marker of Benjamin and Virginia Brandreth at the Dale Cemetery in Ossining, NY as it appeared in November, 2008
|established = 1851
|country = United States
|location = Ossining, NY
|coordinates = {{coord|41.171039|N|73.856059|W}}
|type =
|owner = Town of Ossining
|size = {{convert|47|acre|m2}}
|graves =
|website = {{URL|http://dalecemetery.com}}
|findagraveid = 64321
|political =
}}
The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York, is a town-owned rural cemetery encompassing {{convert|47|acre}} and has been operational since October 1851. In 2013 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places listings for July 26, 2013|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20130726.htm|publisher=U.S. National Park Service|date=July 26, 2013|access-date=July 26, 2013}}
Description
The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York, is a town-owned cemetery encompassing {{convert|47|acre|m2}}.{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of the State of New York |last=French |first=John Homer |author2=Place, Frank |publisher=R. Pearsall Smith |location= New York|page= [https://archive.org/details/gazetteerstaten02placgoog/page/n754 704]|url= https://archive.org/details/gazetteerstaten02placgoog|quote=dale cemetery sing. |year=1860 }} The cemetery was originally owned by the Dale Cemetery Association which was incorporated on 16 January 1851 and was dedicated in October 1851.[https://books.google.com/books?id=_4kvAAAAYAAJ&dq=dale+cemetery+address+1851&pg=PA5 The Dale Cemetery, (at Claremont, Near Sing-Sing,)] (1853) It was designed by Howard Daniels.{{cite book |last1=Linden |first1=Blanche M.G. |title=Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery |date=2007 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |location=Cambridge|isbn=978-1-55849-571-5 |page=294 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AM-x8sYjQXcC&q=rural+cemetery |access-date=5 August 2019}} At its dedication Professor C. Mason said, that we build cemeteries "for the use, the pleasure, the instruction, the edification of the living."Alfred L. Brophy, [https://ssrn.com/abstract=2304305 "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery] Its first President was Aaron Ward, retired congressman.{{cite book|last=Ward|first=George Kemp|title=Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597–1910|publisher=A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing|location=New York|year=1910|pages=[https://archive.org/details/andrewwardeandh00unkngoog/page/n291 245]|url=https://archive.org/details/andrewwardeandh00unkngoog|quote=dale cemetery ossining.|access-date=9 June 2009}} The cemetery was acquired by the Town of Ossining in 2004.{{cite web |title=About Historic Dale Cemetery |url=http://www.dalecemetery.com/about.htm |access-date=2009-04-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010000307/http://dalecemetery.com/about.htm |archive-date=2009-10-10 }}
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".
See also
References
{{National Register of Historic Places in New York}}
Category:Cemeteries in Westchester County, New York
Category:Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York