Pleasant Valley Cemetery, est. 1881 (Stanley, KS)
This is an archived index from the Digital Cemetery.
Address
9500 W 159th St
Overkand Park, KS
GPS Location
38° 50' 18" N, 94° 41' 43" W
38.838333, -94.695274
Legal Location
Section 13, Township 14S, Range 24E
GoogleMap
Owner
Pleasant Valley Cemetery District Association. See their website.
About the Cemetery
The Pleasant Valley Cemetery Association was organized in the winter of 1880, and their Charter granted by the State of Kansas in March 1881. George McCaughey was elected President, and R P Edgington as Secretery to the first Cemetery Association board. The first charter members included J E Divelbiss, A N Edgington, John McCaughey Sr, and J S Justice. B M Dawson, J G Shreve, John Toynbee Sr, J C Murray, Giblert Bunnell, Jos L Shreve, Frank Hathaway, and Wm Moreland were also among the original organizing members.
The Pleasant Valley Cemetery District was approved by Johnson County on May 7, 1964, to provide tax support to the cemetery, with the Association to administer the District.
The first recorded burial was Caroline English, Olathe, interred in Jan 1881, prior to the official establishment of the cemetery. The first buiral after the cemetery was officially established was Julia A. Edgington, wife of R. P. Edington, who died 26 Feb 1881.
Index
Photographed by Linda K Lewis and Bruce Smykowski, 2005.
Transcribed by Carol Rollins, Linda K Lewis, 13 Jun 2006.
This is a complete transcription by reading and photographing the gravestones.
Surname Index [A-B] [C-D] [E-G] [H-I] [J-L] [M-N] [O-R] [S] [T-Z] [Unknown]
