April 28, 2025 - The Pleasant Hill Cemetery Homecoming is Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 11am.
As we cherish the memories of our loved ones laid to rest here, we kindly ask for your support in maintaining the beauty and integrity of this cemetery. Your donation will directly contribute to vital upkeep projects, ensuring the lasting dignity of this sacred space.
Send donations to: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, PO Box 91, Shelbyville, TX 75973.
We would also appreciate if you would share this with your families. It is important that future generations be aware of the cemetery and the future needs. We would love to add them to our mailing list.
Chain Anderson: Family lore has it that Jonathan H. Anderson (Chain) was not an upstanding citizen: he was a gambler, womanizer, and probably a thief. And his habit was to ride horses fast! One night a group of men getting even for a woman Chain had done wrong strung a rope across the trail and on his way home fast riding Chain hung himself and broke his neck on the rope. His was the first burial in Pleasant Grove and with his brother's birth date to protect the grave. The only indication that it is Chain's grave is the marker, which has a hand holding a chain with the index finger pointing down, and the initials J. H. His brother, John S, is buried in Pleasant Hill under his brother Chain's name (Jonathan) and CSA service record.
