[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] present grounds south of the gateway to the Sprain road, and including the site of the gateway itself, were purchased at a later date. This cemetery has a number of handsome monuments. Of course, it is not for general use, but only for the people of the Roman Catholic Church. Oakland Cemetery. — This lies in the angle in-closed by Ashburtou Avenue and the Saw-Mill River road, and extends northward to St. John's Cemetery and eastward over the high ledge seen from the road just named. Its ground is part of the glebe devised by the second Lord Philipse, in 1751, to St. John's Church. That church early set off as a burial-ground the northern part of their glebe, which is now known as St. John's Cemetery. The rest it appropriated as a farm, and on this it built its first rectory. Part of that farm is now Oakland Cemetery. The rectory once standing within it no longer exists, as our his-tory of the church has shown. Oakland Cemetery is a new name given in 18X2. The cemetery was first established by the Yonkers Cemetery Association on the 3d of December, 18(iti, under the provisions of a general act of 1847. The first board of trustees were Thomas W. Ludlow, Isaac II. Knox, Charles W.