Pleasant Hill Cemetery

Pleasant Hill is the song — the record pins New Vienna, but the cemetery stands in Rushville, Fairfield County, where 'Darling Nelly Gray' was born. The 'Joe Selby' is the inspiration — the 'escaped to buy her freedom' that's the Nelly sold away, the 'pneumonia' that's the died in Rushville days from Canada. The 'eight' is the buried — the 'unmarked graves' that's the freedom seekers, the 'wooden crosses' that's the markers long removed.

The 'Hanby' is the writer — the 'Bishop William' that's the hid them, the 'Benjamin '56' that's the ballad composed. The 'Uncle Tom's Cabin of music' is the reach — the 'abolition anthem' that's the song became, the 'Hyde' that's the doctor buried too. Pleasant Hill is the mourned — the 'never made it' that's the journey's end, the '2019 marker' that's the finally named.

The file keeps Pleasant Hill: Selby's grave, the eight unmarked, the Hanby ballad, and the 2019 monument.

Pleasant Hill Cemetery is the archive's Ohio file — the graves that made a song.