Mount Pleasant Graveyard
In August of 2013 I began a conversation with Mr. Charles Burden after he commented on a post I did featuring some of the bridges that cross Anderson’s Fork, the creek that runs behind our house. I was/am planning a kayak trip from our back yard to Caesar’s Creek lake. The kayak trip is still planned but the main thing I’ve been emailing Charles about is the old Mount Pleasant graveyard just north of the old Mount Pleasant high school. He is originally from this area, and some of his relatives are buried in that cemetery. They were some of Clinton county’s first residents! While Charles and I have talked about the old graveyard for many months, I had never been to it (or seen it) until today – January 24th, 2015.
The condition of this very old graveyard are very poor, but I am hoping that with some help from Liberty township here in Clinton county (Ohio), and some of my own work, the old graveyard may be looking better in the coming months.
For now, here are photos taken of the site today…
2 COMMENTS
Charles Burden and I have been working together on the Burden family in Clinton Co, OH. I have entered what we found and knew in FINDAGRAVE under the Mitchell Cemetery. I hope you can add some graves or I will enter them for you. We visited the cemetery and it was so covered with poison ivy so bad I was afraid to go in. I live in MI. Great project–I wish for you to find every stone.
i am a volunteer with the Find A Grave website and have visited this cemetery. it broke my heart to think of the forgotten souls buried there. i would love to visit it again and help in the clean up/restoration. please feel free to e-mail me if interested. i would love to know more of the history that is associated with this cemetery. thank you in advance for any information. i look forward to hearing from you.