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HISTORY OF Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth, Sioux City Iowa: Western Publishing Company, 1881 transcribed by Karen Seeman
MT. PLEASANT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. In November, 1873, twenty-two of the residents of Sioux Falls organized a Cemetery association, with Dr. Joseph Roberts, President; F. D. Cowles, Clerk; Dr. J. L. Phillips, William Van Eps, W. H. Corson and Edwin Sharpe as Trustees. The organization was incorporated under the name of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association, January 12, 1874. The Association purchased twenty acres of land in the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 22, town 101, range 49, just a mile from town on the east side of the river. The site is a beautiful one, overlooking the valley of the Sioux and the village. The officers elected in 1875, were Dr. J. L. Phillips, B. F. Roderick, N. E. Phillips, Edwin Sharpe and Joseph Roberts, Trustees; N. E. Phillips, Treasurer, and H. W. Lewis, Clerk. At this meeting it was voted to lay out a portion of the grounds, which was accordingly done. At the annual meeting in July, 1877, E. A. Sherman was elected President of the Association; C. W. McDonald, Clerk; N. E. Phillips, Treasurer; J. L. Phillips, W. H. Corson, T. H. Brown and E. Sharpe, Trustees. The platting of the grounds, ordered two years before, was reconsidered, and another plan substituted. By this last plan the entire grounds owned by the Association are divided into forty-eight blocks, of fourteen lots in each block, each lot being 21 by 21 1/2 feet. There are two principal streets, 40 feet wide, one running north and south, the other east and west, through the center of the plat. A twenty-foot street separates the blocks each way, and an eight-foot alley runs between the lots each way. The next meeting of the Association was held July 7, 1879, at which E. A. Sherman was elected President; C. W. McDonald, Clerk; N. E. Phillips, Treasurer; E. A. Sherman, J. L. Phillips, W. H. Corson, John McKee and Edwin Sharpe, Trustees. These persons are still the officers of the Association. The grounds have been fenced and the corners of the lots adjacent to the streets marked with stone monuments. The Association is not able, financially, to do anything towards beautifying the grounds, as its only source of revenue is from the sale of lots, and the price of the grounds and improvements already made have exhausted all that has thus far been received. By the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, the Association must expend all moneys received, after paying the necessary items above set forth, in beautifying the grounds; so that the greater the number of lots sold, the sooner will the Association be able to adorn the resting place of the mortal remains of those, of our number who have gone to the Great Beyond.
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