Shawnee County KS Archives Photo Place.....Pleasant Hill Cemetery - Description 
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Photo is Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Richland, Kansas, looking north, where church
had been located.

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Pleasant Hill Cemetery

Description

     Pleasant Hill Cemetery is a tract of land in Monmouth Township, Shawnee
County, Kansas, described as follows:

     That Part of the northwest quarter of Section 19, Township 13 South, Range
17 East of the 6th P. M. bounded as follows:  Beginning at a point on the west
line of said section 82 rods south of the northwest corner of said section; 
Thence running due east 20 rods;  Thence running due north 20 rods;  Thence
running due west 20 rods to the west line of said quarter section;  Thence 20
rods south along said line to the place of beginning.  Containing 2 ½ acres more
or less.

     This tract of land was deeded to the newly-formed Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Association on March 12, 1877, by Jesse Bushong and his wife, Elizabeth.  The
officers of the association were: William Zirkle, president; A. A. Disney,
secretary; and Jacob Zirkle, treasurer.

     By the time the land had been deeded to the association, more than
thirty-five persons had already been buried in the cemetery.  In fact, the first
recorded burial was in May 1855.  In 1889, additional land was given to the
cemetery by J. D. Rockey, A. G. Miller and M. Osborne, trustees of the Seventh
Day Adventist Church.  The land was described as follows:

     That part of the northwest quarter of Section 19, Township 13 South, Range
17 East of the 6th P.M. bounded as follows:  Beginning at a point 62 rods due
south of the northwest corner of said section 19; Thence running due east 20
rods;  Thence north 10 rods;  Thence west 20 rods;  Thence south 10 rods along
the section line to the point of beginning.  Containing 1 ¼ acres more or less,
in a deed dated Jan. 2, 1889.

     Soon, a Seventh Day Adventist Church was constructed north of the old part
of the cemetery, on the new land.  It was known as the Pleasant Hill Church.  In
the early 1970s, the church, which was now vacant and plagued by vandalism, was
torn down.  The piece of land it occupied became part of the cemetery, where
lots are being sold.  The cemetery now contains three and three-quarters acres
of land.

     Pleasant Hill Cemetery has several interesting features.  Three of the
people buried there were known to have been born in the 1700s.  Two of the
Zirkles buried there died when they were 99 years old.  One woman who died was a
widow for 53 years.

     The cemetery also contains the parents, grandparents and great-grandmother
of Georgia Neese Gray, former United States Treasurer.  All of the tombstones in
the cemetery face west except for the two largest monuments of Mrs. Gray’s Neese
families, which face north.

     As of 1978, the cemetery contains the remains of more than 945 persons, of
which 912 are known burials.  The rest are unknown.


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