He died at Morrisania on the 6th of November, L816, in the sixtyfifth year of his age. " His remains were buried where Saint Anne's Church now stands, the east aisle covering their original restingplace. They were afterward transferred to the family vault, which is the first one east of the church. His wife caused a marble slab to be placed over the temporary tomb, and that still remains." Several of the most notable literary characters of the first half century of the republic were identified with Westchester County by residence. James Fenimore Cooper, born in Now Jersey and reared on the frontiers of New York, married, on the 1st of January, 1811, Susan Augusta, daughter of John Peter de Lancey, of Mamaroneck, and great-granddaughter of Colonel Caleb Heathcote. Cooper was at that time in his twenty-second year. The young couple made their home in Mamaroneck, where Cooper wrote his first novel, "Precaution." Contracting the acquaintance of John Jay, he obtained from him the suggestion for his second work, " The Spy," or " Tale of the Neutral Ground," which formed the basis of his literary reputation. Thus the beginnings of Cooper's fame were incidental exclusively to his resilience in Westchester RODMAN DRAKE. County. The gifted Joseph Rodman Drake, known equally as the poet of the American flag and the poet of the Bronx, lived in our Town of West harms and lies buried in the ancient family cemetery of the Leggetts, Willetts, and Hunts, on Hunt's Point. Many of his poems were written while musing by the side of the Bronx. His career was cut short by consumption at the early age of twenty-five. He died on the 21st of September, 1820. His grave and the simple monument which marks it long ago fell into extreme neglect. In the present march of city improvements in the Borough of the Bronx the plans adopted for street extensions involve the complete extinction of the old graveyard.