So, the original hand-written list probably includes only the 13 markers that could be read when this ‘short list’ was created (before 1964? date and author unknown) [3a1] (see Appendix 3). Indeed, the markers in the cemetery are very hard to read, and that could easily account for the notable errors on the hand-written ‘short list’ [3a1] (as discussed further in the next section, III. C., below).

 

1. addition of Anna M. King, wife of John King, as corrected by Mark Accas’ note in 1977 [3a2] [48]

(and, an updated fourteen-name ‘short list’ is available) [5] [5g] [5h];

 

2. Isabelle McAninch is the (first) wife of Enoch George McAninch, not “wife of John McAninch”, which is recorded correctly by the other eye-witness sources [1] [2] [4a2 photo] [4b letter], and

 

3. Samuel McAninch, died 30 July 1859, is indeed “Samuel” McAninch, not “Ernest” McAninch; the name Samuel is also recorded correctly by the other eye-witness sources [1] [2] [4a5 photo] [4b letter].

 

 

“Old Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery”, Copyright 2003, by Frank McAninch       page 13 of 68

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