It was too in the ravine, just back of the church, that this redoubtable hero, Ichabod, had his fearful midnight encounter with the headless horseman and forever disappeared from the sight of the goodly inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow."^
The grave yard is delightfully situated on the north side of the church, upon a gentle acclivity. " Some of the tomb-stones are of the rudest sculpture; upon many of them are inscribed, in Dutch, the names and virtues of the deceased, with their portraitures curiously carved in the similitude of cherubs."
Ileer legt Begraven Heer legt Begraven
Het Lechaam van Het Lechaam van Jochum van
Hendrick van I'assel, Wert overleeden den 18
Gebooren den 7 Aug. 1704. van Aug. 1770, out
zynde omtrent 72 yaaren.
Mors vincit omnia.
Te Geduchtenis van
Catriena Ecker, wedue van
Petrus van Tessel, geboren
Nov. 10, 1736, overleeden
de 10 van Jan'y, 1793, out zynde
56 yaaren en i rnaanden, (fee.
* Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, b Barber's Hist. Col.
336 HISTORY OF THE
Peter Paulding, an officer Sacred
in the Revolutionary army, to the memory
who died March 3, 1S42, of Colonel
in the 73d year of Barnardus Swartwout, jim.,
his age. a soldier of the Revolution,
born Sept. 26th .1761. deceased Oct. 8th, 1824.
In
Memory of Captain John Buckhout who departed this life April the lOih, 1785,
aged 103 years, and left
behind him when he died,
124 children and grandchildren.
There are vaults in the yard belonging to the Paulding, Brown, Beeckman and Brush families.