The earliest burial was Pvt. John Sloat, killed at the Sloat House in 1781 during the Revolutionary War. The Sloat family burial plot was created in 1832, and by 1851 other families began using the area west of the Sloat plot as a village cemetery. From 1878 to 1936, a Sloatsburg Cemetery Association created and sold family plots. There are over 1,700 gravesites here, including many earlier burials in places that no longer bear any marking. More than 1,400 existing headstones form a virtual who’s who of the early families of Sloatsburg and surrounding communities.