- - - - HISTORY OF PLEASANT HILL CEMETERY - - - -

OKLAHOMA COUNTY OK

Widower Jacob Dohner owned the original land tract and deeded the land for the sum of $1.00 to Samuel E. Haugh, W. E. Heald, and G. Gower; Trustees of Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association of Lincoln Twp., Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory to be used for a cemetery and church in 1892. The transaction was recorded on December 7, 1896 in deed Book 11, p. 663.

Upon entering the cemetery, a stone column displays a plaque stating the establishment of the cemetery in 1892. One of the earliest graves belongs to Mary Long who died in August 1892 at the age of 35. This cemetery is fair sized with over 300 documented burials. A few of the most recognizable family names include Craig, Panick, Truskey, Olson, and Fagan.

When the cemetery was laid out, space was left on the NE corner for a church that was never built. As pioneers traveled west by covered wagon and stopped to rest in the area, they left behind those who died. As a result, several people are sometimes interred in the same plot. The earliest known burials are Annie Whitman, Maggie Hower, and Lucy Wade who were buried here in 1893. Kenneth Morey, killed in the Edmond Post office massacre on August 20, 1986, is buried in this cemetery.

H. C. Stallings, volunteer with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints inventoried the cemetery May 15, 1957 and July 11, 1968. His inventories are available at the Edmond Historical Society Museum. A 1961 canvass listed 163 surnames. The caretaker of the cemetery records for many years has stated that the original map of the cemetery was done on a gunnysack. Another person is currently taking care of the cemetery records.

{Information obtained from OK County Cemetery Index - compiled by OK County HCE Genealogy Group, page 85.}