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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 160

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] sides and winding valleys, with shady groves and babbling brook; it is sufficiently conspicuous and sequestered in its various parts to please the tastes of all classes of persons. The grand entrance on the western side is through a pair of round, lofty, massive marble columns, surmounted by globular heads. These pillars were quarried and hewn at the prison, for the old French Church in New York City, but for some cause were not taken away. Just within this entrance stands a shaft of red granite, erected to the memory of George W. and Bartow W. Powell, Jr., the brothers in whose honor Post Powell, No. 117, G. A. R., of Sing Sing, was named. The usual entrance to the cemetery is by way of Dale Avenue, on the eastern side. The first inter-ment in these grounds was the bones of Lieutenant Samuel Young, who was born December 4, 17(50, and died September 12, 1837. He served in the American army in the War of the Revolution, was subsequently a member of the State Legislature and surrogate of Westchester County. His remains were brought to Dale Cemetery from their original resting-place in the grounds of the "Old Dutch Church," where they should have been permitted to remain un-