Transcription of Pleasant Hill Cemetery

in Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, USA

NOTES: (1) A search for mentions of Pleasant Hill Cemetery was conducted through Google and selected links have been collected here. (2) WorldConnect References link this transcription to entries in the WorldConnect Database, providing geographical linkages between persons who otherwise would not be connected to one another. (3) The Rootsweb Message Board Coverage provides a quick look at whether or not a surname has been the subject of significant discussion here on Rootsweb. (4) Cemetery Statistics include analyses of the cemetery population. (5) For more information on this resource, see "GNIS" in Wikipedia.

Introduction & Editorial Comments

Pleasant Hill Cemetery is located on Geneva Road, 2 miles NorthWest of the town of Wheaton, West of Gary Avenue, in Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, USA. A county location identifier was provided with the transcription: Sec. 8 J. 39 R 10. According to the transcription this cemetery was restored by the W.P.A., though no details are provided.

A bronze tablet appears at the cemetery which reads:

It is unclear from the transcription what the original information was, a walkthrough of the cemetery or a Plat. Nonetheless, these original records were copied by Ethel Whaley and Laura K. Thomas of the Martha Ibbetson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on 18 August 1950. By 1998, this original copy was housed in the DuPage County Historical Museum collection. The original copy was re-copied by Donald A. Sender, a Milton Township Caseworker, 2 Sept 1998. The present information is from a copy of the Sender Copy.

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The file available here is the exact file submitted to Rootsweb for upload as a User Database. This has not yet been accepted for inclusion. The data in this file is tab-delimited, meaning that information in one column is separated from that in another by a tab-character. The data include two types of columns: columns A-P are "specific information" pertaining to one individual per row while columns Q-AA are "global information" that pertains to the cemetery as a whole.

Pleasant Hill Cemetery Transcription

This link is to a file in the mindspring.com domain.

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Pleasant Hill Cemetery Links

Note that "Pleasant Hill Cemetery" seems to be a common name, such that there are at least two other cemeteries in Illinois with this name, and several others in the Midwest.

Pleasant Hill Cemetery @ Graveyards of Illinois [active 2005-01-09]

Aerial Photography showing the Cemetery and surrounding area

DuPage County, Illinois has produced a database of high quality aerial photographs coupled to an annotated overlay and interactive map browser which can be accessed via the Survey Control Map link located on the County's GIS Map Gallery page. In order to respect the County's copyright, I will not reproduce images from the database here. However, I am also unable to provide stable links to particular magnifications of a particular map segment. Therefore, I've provided a start to finish string of URLs below that should get you to where I would think is a good starting place for exploring the area "by plane". If you need or desire to start from scratch at the GIS Map Gallery page, an interactive Yahoo map of the region will be helpful. Each of the following links should open in the same window; I believe you need to be able to accept cookies for this to work properly.

1. Survey Control Map: http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp
2. You do not need to check anything on the Add Layers panel because the settings are encoded in the URLs shown here.
3. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=zoomin&Layer8=on&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer2=on&map.x=185&map.y=117&layerlist=layers
4. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=zoomin&Layer8=on&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer2=on&map.x=165&map.y=190&layerlist=layers
5. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=zoomin&Layer8=on&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer2=on&map.x=216&map.y=181&layerlist=layers
6. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=zoomin&Layer8=on&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer2=on&map.x=198&map.y=191&layerlist=layers
7. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=pan&Layer8=on&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer2=on&map.x=114&map.y=364&layerlist=layers
8. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=zoomin&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer3=on&Layer2=on&Layer1=on&map.x=163&map.y=198&layerlist=layers
9. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=zoomin&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer3=on&Layer2=on&Layer1=on&map.x=201&map.y=189&layerlist=layers
10. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=zoomin&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer3=on&Layer2=on&Layer1=on&map.x=204&map.y=191&layerlist=layers
11. http://maps.dupageco.org/maps/benchmarks/benchmarksmap.asp?mapAction=zoomin&Layer7=on&Layer6=on&Layer3=on&Layer2=on&Layer1=on&map.x=204&map.y=200&layerlist=layers
12. Pleasant Hill Cemetery is at the center of the map produced by this last link, at the corner of Coventry Drive and Geneva Road.

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