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This is a master layout of the cemetery, synthesized from the four ‘eye-witness’ accounts [1] [2] [3] [4]. Presented in ‘Plan View’ here, this layout can be considered to be a ‘virtual cemetery’, giving the reader a look at the inscriptions and layout of the cemetery, as it might have been before it was destroyed. |
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This tabulation summarizes the information known for all of the 19 graves that have been identified in this cemetery, including the various inscriptions that have been recorded. Specific grave identification numbers “1 to 8, 8b, and 9 to 19” are used here, in the same layout as the sketch map found in the Phillips Estate papers [1]. |
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The chronological order of burials, and the development of this Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery, can be seen in the “Tracing the Physical Growth of the Cemetery, 1847-1868, in Five Phases” section, below, which shows five distinct phases in the growth of this cemetery: |
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Phase 1. 1847-1848, McAninch-Pike ‘family cemetery’ for two children; |
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Phase 2: 1851, four new graves added (total of six graves, in a triangular pattern); |
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Phase 3: 1853-1855, three new graves added (add a new row, total of nine graves); |
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Phase 4: 1859-1860, five new graves added (around the edges, total of 14 graves); and |
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Phase 5: 1864-1868, five new graves extend the cemetery at both ends (total of 19 graves). |
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“Old Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery”, Copyright 2003, by Frank McAninch (1.0) page 8 of 68 |
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Permission granted to copy freely for any non-commercial purpose except copyrights owned by others |