The Hyatt Family

The Hyatt Family. A Local Clan with Roots in the American Revolution. Abraham Hyatt was born in White Plains in 1747, the descendant of English immigrants. In 1776, at age 29, he joined the Patriot cause, serving as an army lieutenant in the 4th New York Regiment. (John Hancock signed his commission.) Records show that he mustered with the Continental Army at Valley Forge from 1777 to 1778. , After the war, Hyatt and his wife Sarah Rider Hyatt settled on a farm in Chappaqua. They had eight children, seven of them sons. One of those sons, Abram Hyatt, relocated to the village of Sing Sing (Ossining) in the early 1800s. He had six sons, naming one of them Abram as well. , In 1856, five years after Dale opened, the Hyatt family bought this plot from the Dale Cemetery Association for $95.50. Having a Revolutionary War veteran for an ancestor was a source of great pride at the time, and in 1857, the Hyatts moved the remains of Abraham and Sarah from a family burying ground in Chappaqua, reinterring them under this impressive monument of Sing Sing marble. , Several generations of the Hyatt family and their spouses are buried here. Abram Hyatt the son went on to become the district tax collector, appointed by President Lincoln. His brother, Captain Charles Hyatt, served in the Union Army and died in 1867 of yellow fever in the South. Born in 1848, the third Abram Hyatt (pictured above) owned a successful local real estate business, handling many prominent land deals. He served as justice of the peace and was elected village president in 1903. A year later he caught a bad cold at a Democratic meeting and passed away, joining his ancestors in the family plot.