The eldest son was William Irving, a merchant of New York. He was distinguished as a gentlemen of literary taste, and was concerned with his brother, Washington Irving, and Mr. J. K. Paulding, in writing Salmagundi. He was also a member of Congress in 1812, and died in 1821. The second son was Peter Irving, M. D., who died in 1837. The third son was Ebenezer Irving, Esq., late proprietor of Sunny Side, the father of the Rev. rierre Paris Irving, Rev. Theodore Irving, William, Sanders, and of Edgar Irving, and the ladies who now occupy the homestead. The fourth son was John Treat Irving, Esq., a member of the bar, and for many years before his death, (which took place in 1835,) first judge of the city and county of New York. The youngest son was the late Hon. Washington Irving, whose literary fame will hand his name down to the remotest posterity. This distinguished and noble man was born in New York on the 3d of April, 1783 and died at Sunny Side, November 2Sth, 1859. Beside all his literary labors, he was, for several years, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Spain. He was, also, for many years a warden of Christ church, Tarrytown ; and, on several occasions, served as a lay-delegate to the Diocesan Convention. His remains repose beside those of his father and mother in the Mount Pleasant cemetery, upon the slope of the hill just north of the old Dutch church of Sleepy Hollow : " near the sunniest of the slope, where a grove of oak and yew trees commences to crown the hill, is the burial-place of the Irving family. It is a large, square lot, bounded by a low fence and a thickly-grown evergreen hedge. Near the centre is a row of five graves, while a few feet distant is another row of five more graves, all marking the resting places of deceased members of the Irving family." Between these two rows, and connecting them in one continuous row, is the grave of the illustrious and beloved Washington Irving, which is marked by a plain white marble slab, bearing the following inscription :