Source of Pleasant Hill Cemetery Records

The copy of Pleasant Hill Cemetery inscriptions in use at the Local History Library, located at 100 W. Main St. was no longer legible. This record is from visual readings, done by various people over the years, so there were different copies of the work of different people to be compared in order to find anything.

The first reading of the tombstone inscriptions of Pleasant Hill cemetery was made by Carolyn Nixon in 1934, but she only listed a few of the inscriptions. Elise Lindenberger, Lindsey Brien, Gale Honeyman, Joe Bosserman and Nancy B. Wall, have all worked at making the list as complete as possible. We are unable to obtain a burial list from the Newton Township Trustees, so the best list we have probably does not include burials without tombstones or missing stones. We do not have access to section and grave lot numbers. This list was compiled in alphabetical order to make it easier to find data more quickly. Stones once recorded could now be missing. The majority of the readings were taken before 1980. They are visual readings; there could be mistakes due to poor legibility of the inscriptions.

A list of soldiers buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery was included in this list in BOLD print. Therefore, the soldier could be listed twice; once as a burial, and a second time from the soldier's list.

Some of the inscriptions were not complete. Some stones did not give a surname, and for others the surname could not be deciphered. The computer listed these before it listed the complete inscriptions. If you can help us complete information, please provide documentation. No cemetery record is exact. Sometimes the engraver made a mistake (THOSE) were not corrected unless the family paid for a second stone!).

Codes used are the normal ones: d/o = daughter of; h/o = husband of; s/o = son of, and w/o = wife of. The ages of at the time of death were shortened to make room for more information. Ages are given as year, month, and day; 23-10-5 means twenty three years, ten months, and 5 days.

Juda M. Moyer

Compiled January 1999