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.