[or-roots] Pleasant View/Hill Cemetery

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

Gary, et al --

There seems to be some problems identifying this cemetery and it's correct location, so if you will bear with me for a bit, I'll try to explain:

Sue wrote:

http://www.interment.net/data/us/or/washington/pleasant/pleasant.htm
Pleasant View Cemetery
Sherwood, Washington County, Oregon
Lat: 45=B024'35"N, Lon: 122=B059'27"W

R1W T3S Sec 5

Contributed by Deanna J Warren, Jul 30, 2001 [dwarren at bctonline.com].
Total records =3D 1,408.=20

  Reprinted courtesy of Lucille Geigle author of "Walking Through The 
Cemeteries" volume II Winter 1993, used by permission. ...

 The Cemetery is 3 acres in size and has approximately 2500 graves. It 
is about 4 miles south of Sherwood in the Pleasant Hill district. 

Les wrote:

According to the info Sue posted;

http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=11&Z=10&X=1251&Y=12570&W=1

will take you to a USGS link for a topo map of the Cemetery you are looking
for, but USGS calls it Pleasant Hill? I note that the name was "changed" to
Pleasant View to avoid duplication of names, but there are two by that name
in Oregon also, the other being in Umatilla county. ...

Bill writes:

Yes, the TerraServer shows a Pleasant Hill cemetery on SW Campbell Road between Holly Hill Rd and SW McNay Rd -- this is about 6-8 miles northwest of Sherwood and is in Washington County. Also, it is the wrong cemetery.

The Interment.net site shows a burial for U G Shaver in the listed cemetery, but this is where the confusion starts.

Now, for the geography lesson. The City of Sherwood, which is in Washington County, has a common boundary on part of its southern edge with Clackamas County. The basis for the Interment.net information is Lucille Geigle's "Walking Through The Cemeteries" volume II, Winter 1993. Ms Geigle's work is for Clackamas County cemeteries, and as she states, "It [Pleasant View Cemetery] is about 4 miles south of Sherwood in the Pleasant Hill district" which is in Clackamas County.

The cemetery where U G Shaver is buried is on SW Westfall Rd west of Baker Road, near the intersection of Westfall and SW 145th Ave. Westfall also has two terminal intersections with SW Tooze Rd going to Wilsonville, which is probably the easiest way to get there if you are unfamiliar with the area. 

Apparently there are Pleasant Hill Cemeteries in Polk, Umatilla, and Washington Counties, as well as two Pleasant View cemeteries in Clackamas County and others elsewhere I am sure. What about that pioneer cemetery in Pleasant Hill, east of Eugene? Confusion reigns!

My Thomas Bros map book does not show the cemetery on Campbell Rd -- maybe somebody closer could go by and see what is there?

Bill Strickland

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