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STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />Application Number: 1999-0924 <br />Property Location: JEFFERSON ROAD (PLEASANT VALLEY CEM.) <br />Property Owner: PENN TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE <br />Landmark or District Designation: LL <br />Rating: S Key Number: 14-1044-0782 <br />Survey Number: <br />STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT <br />The Pleasant Valley Cemetery is one of fifteen remaining nineteenth-century pioneer <br />burial sites in St. Joseph County. This cemetery is located on land that was once a farm owned <br />by John Ireland in the 1820's. In August of 1839, then owner, John A. Ervin donated three <br />quarters of an acre of land to the St. Joseph County Commissioners for a public burial place. <br />Previously that same donated parcel had been a private burial ground. In 1863 the cemetery <br />was enlarged by deeding an acre of adjoining ground from Malina and Chauncey Curtis to <br />David Pettit to be held in trust for a public burying ground. Pleasant Valley Cemetery is the <br />final resting place for original owner, William Ireland who was also responsible for building the <br />first saw mill in Osceola. Also buried there are six Civil War soldiers, William Bell, George <br />Dissinger, Jacob Dielman, Phillip Dielman, Isaac Pettit and Orrin Crain. <br />