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nineteenth century–2026
On Jefferson Boulevard in the township's northeast, at 41.68085 north, 86.08078 west, stands the burying ground of the Pleasant Valley neighborhood. The containment test places it on unincorporated Penn Township ground — Osceola's by postal address and by use, the township's by the line — a short distance east of the town across the river bend. The ground shares its name and its neighborhood with the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, organized about 1852 with its frame house "in the northeastern part of Penn township" in Chapman's words; whether the cemetery was the church's own burying ground, a neighborhood association's, or the township's, no record states, and the correspondence of name and neighborhood is printed as correspondence, not as proof of association. The township trustee's statutory cemetery duties, carried in the Government leg, are the frame its keeping presumably runs in; presumably is printed here as the conjecture it is, and the keeper's name stands as a gap below, with the trustee's cemetery records named as its settler.
Sources
- GraveRoots, Penn Township list (the ground's coordinates and Jefferson Boulevard siting).
- Chapman (1880), p. 799 (the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in the township's northeast).