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Summer 2019 Summer is usually a quiet time at Pleasant View Cemetery. Flags and decorations from Memorial Day have mostly been picked
up. Extra flags, vases, and some flowers that are still in good shape have been
stored in the shed. So if you are looking for these things, the door is always
open. Ron mowed before Father's Day but we probably won't mow much more
during the summer. Most monument projects are on hold until the ground is softer
again in the fall when we will resume work on the medallion project. One of the
summer projects we have been working on is removing ivy from our forest trees so
if you are looking to volunteer we are never short of ivy. Contributed Lately? We depend on donations to help cover our maintenance expenses. Many of our family members make an annual contribution of $50 - $150 to help with expenses. All contributions are tax-deductible and can be made anytime to:
Pleasant View Cemetery Association at P.O. Box 141, Sherwood, OR 97140. Monument Cleaning: We have cleaned and treated all our marble monuments (about 165 of them) with a product called D2 that kills lichen, an annoying little plant that can turn white marble nearly black and hasten deterioration of the stone. It is used by stone conservators at places like Arlington Cemetery and the Washington Monument, so it comes with good credentials. It takes several months to fully lighten the marble back to its original color, so you might notice our marble in a variety of stages of lightening. Never use bleach or other cleaning products on historic marble because it can permanently damage the stone and hasten its deterioration.
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We're All Family Here . . .
All of these are names that someone was buried with at Pleasant View, so maiden names are not included here unless we have someone buried under that name. The exceptions to that are the names in black & white (Galbreath, Boeckman, and Edy). We don't have anyone by those names at PVC but we have multiple connections to those families. In parentheses is the primary cemetery where this family can be found. The Galbreaths are at Winona Cemetery in Tualatin, the Boeckmans are at Meridian on 65th near Stafford, and the Edys are at Gibbs near Sherwood. So have fun exploring
your connections and check back as the chart continues to grow
in size and complexity. I wish I could make it more searchable,
but I have added a list of the names that are on it below.
If your name is there, you are on the chart and related by blood
or by marriage to everyone else on the chart. Names currently on this chart (and connected in some way to
every other name on this chart): |
A Few Research Tips for this Site
There are two primary ways to search for people here: 1)The main alphabetical listing and 2) the cemetery map. Either way will take you to individual links to people in the cemetery where you will find whatever information we have about them. If you are researching for genealogy info, you should try the alpha list first, find what Lot they (or a close relative) are in, and then go to the cemetery map. Click on the block that contains that Lot # to see where the individual is located and most importantly, who the near neighbors are. Cemetery lots were often sold in groups of 6 or 12 (a half row or a full row) so if the near neighbors are related, probably all 6 or all 12 for that row are relatives as well, regardless of their surnames.
People are generally filed here by the name they had when they were
buried, so women who marry - especially more than once - may not be
readily apparent as relatives. Or they may be elsewhere in the
cemetery under another married name. You can check first names and dates to
see if those match the person you are looking for. Try the
Site Search below to search by first names (or by any other term). Of course
this will be easier if you are looking for Hilda than if you are looking
for Mary!
Pleasant
View Cemetery Site Search
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Unmarked
Graves
Checking the block map is especially important because it shows
burials without a monument as well as those with monuments. It
will also indicate who shares a monument with someone else.
There are between 200 and 300 missing monuments at Pleasant View, a
combination of those lost or deteriorated over time and those who
never received a permanent marker. Early burials were recorded
as "south half of Lot 25" or sometimes just "Lot 25", so for those
without a marker, the exact location within the family plot may be an
estimation. We do occasionally find missing monuments that
have just sunk below the sod, and when we do, that information gets
updated.
Additional Family Members
If your genealogy
research is based heavily on census records (Ancestry.com, for
instance), keep in mind that children who are born and die within
one ten-year census reporting period will never appear in any
census. The family cemetery plot is often the only place to
find evidence of these additional family members who belong in the
family tree. Infants and young children are often next to their
grandparents since their parents and siblings probably outlived
them by many decades and may have been buried elsewhere.
On-going Data Management
As any researcher knows,
data from different sources is often not in agreement. Even
monuments carved in stone have been known to be in error!
Information on this site comes from the following sources, any of
which may, or may not, agree with each other or with the information
you have, so you will have to use your best judgment as to its
veracity:
1) Monuments - There are photos and transcriptions for each one with the date of the last survey. This next year (2018) I plan to do a full re-survey that will pick up recent monuments, new inscriptions, and monument repairs completed since the last survey date.
2) Ledger Notes - I have transcribed these exactly as they appear in the original ledger, but the ledger's completeness and accuracy varies. In some cases individuals did not make it into the ledger at all.
3) Obituaries - When people find obituaries in newspaper archives, they are often kind enough to pass them along to me. I post them, with their source when I have it. Obituaries often contain a wealth of information, but they are not infallible either.
4) Family Contributions and Remembrances - When people send them, I generally identify them as such and post them as is, without further verification. This includes photos as well.
5) My Own Research - As I work with Ancestry.com and discover maiden names that can help identify relationships, I have been adding those, as well as verifying other information and relationships.
Your Assistance is Appreciated
If you come across
information that I can add to any of these individuals please send
it along with directions for who it should be posted with. A
scanned .jpg file or text that I can simply copy and paste under a
specific individual is best. If you discover obvious errors
that I have made - entering the wrong century for instance, or
someone who seems to have been buried before they died - by all
means let me know so I can correct it! You can email it to me
here:
Charlotte Lehan, PVC Webmaster
Other Cemeteries to Consider -
The chart
below indicates some of the family connections among area
cemeteries. Pleasant View
Cemetery is by far the largest of these historic cemeteries that
we know share multiple family connections. Champoeg and Butteville are south, just across the Willamette River from PVC.
Before 1920, the Willamette was the primary means of travel in the
Valley, so there were lots of connections across the
river. St. Paul Catholic is in St. Paul and is the oldest
Catholic cemetery in the Northwest, so it draws from a wide
area.
Gibbs, Middleton, St. Paul Lutheran, and Maple Lane are to the northwest, in the Sherwood area. Meridian and Robert Bird, which is adjacent to Stafford Baptist, are to the northeast in the Wilsonville-Stafford area. Winona is north in Tualatin. Philip Foster is far to the east in Eagle Creek, but for early pioneers, the Philip Foster Farm, like Champoeg and Butteville, was an important way station for travelers. Several very early pioneer names like Case and Bell occur at Philip Foster and at PVC and Champoeg. Geer is an early family cemetery across from Butteville that has family connections to several other cemeteries.
Besides the local cemeteries, there is Willamette National in Portland, the large military cemetery where veterans and their spouses from throughout Oregon might be found if you can't locate them with the rest of their local family.
Happy Researching!
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