Collection: Pleasant Valley Cemetery - Overland Park

Pleasant Valley Cemetery District Association, Inc. (consisting of 13.22 acres) located at 9501 West 159th Street (between Antioch and Switzer Roads) is a political subdivision of the State of Kansas, Johnson County. It is operated by a Volunteer Board of Directors (nine elected members within the tax district of approximately 36 square miles).

The Cemetery was organized at the Pleasant Valley School House in March of 1881. There was no piece of land found in that locality which was thought suitable for a cemetery due to the land being so closely underlain with rock. Mr. J. E. Divelbiss addressed the meeting stating there was a fine location on the northwest corner of his place and if they chose to use it for a cemetery, he would let them have one acre of ground if the Association would have it regularly laid off and platted and agree to pay him for the land just what it would bring him per acre when it came into the market. This was part of a two hundred acre tract of a Shawnee