His gentle ways, his simplicity and kindness of manner, his courtesy to all, and his frequent mingling with the neighbors, who made up all sorts and conditions of men, women, and children, made him very popular and much loved." He died at Sunnyside suddenly and peacefully on the 28th of November, 1859. His funeral was an event never to be forgotten by the people of Tarrytown. The whole village was in mourning, and all conditions of men came from far and wide to pay the last tributes of honor to the great and good man. He was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, beside his mother, where his remains still repose. Over them is a perfectly plain stone, inscribed as follows: Washington Irving, Born April Nov.

3, 178.3, Died 28, 1859.

The Fordham residence of Edgar Allan Poe, that gloomy and peculiar but resplendent and immortal genius -- our American Marlowe,-- dates from the year 1S4C>, a period slightly later than the one selected for the termination of the present chapter; yet our mention of Toe may more appropriately occur here than in a subsequent connection. Poo became a resident of New York City in 1844, having removed there from Philadelphia. At that time most of his magnificent tales had been written, and indeed he was at the zenith of his fame. But those were days of very slight recompense, and also of very uncertain employment, for authors not blessed with an acquisitive temperament and discreet character and habits. Though his genius was recognized and lie had many sincere friends, he did not attain substantial success in New York City. It is related that his principal regular employment after coming there was as a writer for the Evening Mirror, on a salary of ten dollars a week. While living in New York he wrote the " Raven." In the spring of 1846 lie removed to Fordham, renting for a hundred dollars a year a little frame cottage.