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III. Records of Burials in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery |
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Known in the 20th century as the “(Old) Pleasant Hill (Methodist) Cemetery”, both the church and the cemetery have been lost; the cemetery was destroyed in 1967, and only a few ‘cemetery survey’ records can be found. Fortunately, these secondary records include four different ‘eye-witness’ accounts of the graves in the cemetery, all made before the cemetery was plowed under and lost: |
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1. Papers found in the Phillips Estate, identifying 19 people and 20 graves (one grave is “nameless”), |
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and including a sketch map of the known grave locations [source Note 1] (see Appendix 1); |
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2. Mrs. Ennis Johnson, who lived on the property, and reported 21 names [Note 2] (see Appendix 2); |
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3. An earlier survey (before 1964), found at the Indiana State Library [3] (see Appendix 3); and |
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4. On-site research at the cemetery by Louise McAninch in 1963, and the six photographs that she |
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took at the cemetery in 1963 [Note 4] (see Appendix 4). |
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Both the Phillips Estate papers [1] and Mrs. Johnson’s list [2] agree with other (external) sources, and additional information has revealed three notable mistakes on the original hand-written ‘short list’ [3a1]: |
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1. addition of Anna M. King, wife of John King, as corrected by Mark Accas’ note in 1977 [3a2] [48] |
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(and, an updated fourteen-name ‘short list’ is available at the Plainfield Public Library) [5] [5g] [5h]; |
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2. Isabelle McAninch is the (first) wife of Enoch George McAninch, not “wife of John McAninch”, which is recorded correctly by the other eye-witness sources [1] [2] [4a2 photo] [4b letter], and |
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3. Samuel McAninch, died 30 July 1859, is indeed “Samuel” McAninch, not “Ernest” McAninch; the name Samuel is also recorded correctly by the other eye-witness sources [1] [2] [4a5 photo] [4b letter]. |
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These four sources are discussed in “Analysis and Evaluation of the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Sources”, in the next section, below. |
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“Old Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery”, Copyright 2003, by Frank McAninch page 9 of 68 |
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