On Cascade Road there
is a tombstone belonging to Timothy Clark, aged 58y10m8d
and his wife Rosanah aged 70y5m7d.
The following was told
to me by Thelma Savale who lives near where these stones
are and has seen them:
"According to
legend, (Timothy) Clark was killed by Claudius Smith (or
some of Smith's men). Smith's scull is perported to have
been put in the keystone of the OLD Orange County Courthouse
after he was hanged there. Smith's gang rustled cattle from
the colonists to suppy British troops. Local farmers used
to drive their cows up Cascade Road for summer pasturing.
So that part fits. I don't know if that's the reason Clark
was murdered, but... and apparently Smith would get the
cattle over to Tuxedo and ship them down the Ramapo to feed
the troops. There is a cave on the mountain across from
the Tuxedo Public School (or near there) where Smith supposedly
hid out. Getting the cattle to Tuxedo from Cascade Road
also would make sense. There is (or was) a path that started
somewhere on the old Rialto Property and went directly to
Greenwood Lake. My uncle, Jim Turner, made a bet with his
GWL fire company that he could walk to Bellvale faster than
their truck could get there. He won. So that part makes
sense, also. The gang could easily drive cattle over that
path and never be seen. This is purely conjecture on my
part, but...sounds like Smith could have had some 'easy
pickin's' and Clark got in the way?"