Ichabod Crane (colonel) The owner had offered it to Historic Richmond Town, on the condition they move it off its former site; it never transpired due to a lack of funding. Crane died in October 1857 while still on active duty, and is buried in Asbury Methodist Cemetery, in New Springville Staten Island, not far from his former home. His grave marker bears the inscription: He served his country faithfully 48 years and was much beloved and respected by all who knew him. The character of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is named Ichabod Crane. While Washington Irving did not expressly
Nettie Depp to men. Nettie Depp died of breast cancer on August 3, 1932, and was buried at Refuge Cemetery at Eighty-Eight in Barren County. It was estimated that the crowd that attended her funeral was more than 1500. She was the great-great aunt of actor Johnny Depp. Nettie Depp Nettie Bayless Courts Depp (November 21, 1874 – August 3, 1932) was an education reformer and the first woman public official in Barren County, Kentucky when she won election as public school superintendent in 1913. She held the position through 1917. Depp was the daughter of John Burks Depp (1845-1927), a member