Old Pleasant Hill Christian Church Cemetery

Date: Before 1878 [unknown]
Location: Gasburg, Brunswick, Virginia
Surnames/tags: Old_Pleasant_Hill_Christian_Church_Cemetery_Gasburg_Virginia Old_PH_Cemetery

Contents 1 General Information 2 History 3 Notable Monuments 4 Notable Interments 5 More Information

General Information

Pleasant Hill Christian Church cemetery before the church was built at the present location. There is also a New cemetery for Pleasant Hill located on the church grounds. Located on Ankum Rd. (Route 665), 1 mi. north of Pleasant Hill Christian Church. Latitude: 36º 34' 54.5" N (36.581815) Longitude: 77º 53' 24.0" W

History

Exert from: HISTORY OF PLEASANT HILL CHRISTIAN CHURCH COMPILED AND PRESENTED BY GLENNIE CLARY BOWER (Granddaughter of George Washington Clary and wife, Mary Ann Elizabeth Baird Husky) One of the founding families of Pleasant Hill Christian Church

"Near Gasburg, Brunswick County, Virginia, on the hillside, south of Pea Hill Creek a group of people began to meet for preaching in the grove at Tom Shelbourne's home. These were called "bush arbor meetings." Mr. Holland from Perseverance Church, Lunnenburg County, Virginia, came down and held these summer meetings for several years. It is said that Perseverance Christian Church is the mother of Pleasant Hill. Thomas Shelbourne, Thomas Baird, and John Hammack started a move for a church building near Pea Hill Creek. Thomas Shelbourne and his wife, Hattie L. owned 503 acres located at Pea Hill Creek and on August 21, 1878, signed a deed for one and one-half acres on the hill south of Pea Hill Creek to John L. Hammack and Thomas F. Baird, Trustee for the Disciples or Christians Church for the purpose of building a church on the road leading from Harrison Old Shop Place to Clary's Mill. This deed was recorded in the Brunswick County Clerk's Office in Deed Book 41, Page 36, September 23, 1878. This land was donated. The building cost approximately $300.00 and was built by Tom Baird. Preacher Holland was the first to preach in the new building in 1879, with approximately 50 members making up this new congregation."

Notable Monuments

There is only one obelisk monument in this cemetery that is unreadable. One section that has been bricked off has no readable grave markers.

Notable Interments

Two known Civil War veterans are buried here: Pvt. John Lewis Hammack and his wife, Elvira B. Baird, CWS f BCV, p. 235. Pvt. William Daniel Lynch and his second wife, Lucy Ann Baird, CWS f BCV, p. 341.

More Information

http://www.brunswickcemeteries.org/HTML/pleasant_hill.htm http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/brunswick/misc/pleasa1.txt