Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Wood Township, Clark County, Indiana - Many McKinley and Bell family are buried here.

Located on St. John's Road in Section 15, Township 1 South, Range 5 East, 5 miles south of Borden.  The 1876 maps of Clark County, show a church in this location.  There were two churches built in this spot; the first was torn down and a larger one built.  Later the second church was abandoned and later demolished.  At present time the cemetery is still being used for burial.

Pleasant Ridge's first school was built close to the church.  The second one, replacing it, was built 1/4 mile southwest of the church.  The last and third Pleasant Ridge School was built, a mile away, on the Borden-Greenville Road.  Paul and Donna Nicholson's house sits where this old school once was.

Early records for this cemetery have disappeared and there are many graves that are unmarked.  Through the effort and many hours spent, by Ernest Raab, extracting information, from the stones at Pleasant Ridge, we have a a more complete list of graves.  Ernie has also platted the cemetery and keeps records of the new graves.

I visited this cemetery first in May 2003 and again in June 2004; in 2004 I had the great pleasure of meeting my cousins Pat and Paul Coffman, who live about one mile from the cemetery.  They generously shared with me their research on our BELL line and showed me around the county and where all of our Bell ancestors lived.  I had a most pleasurable visit with them and hope to see them again in the near future.  Paul and Pat are pictured below with me, near the falls of the Ohio River in New Albany.