Mackey aka Pleasant Valley Cemetery

Additional Cemetery Info...

Pleasant Valley Church A defunct Cumberland Presbyterian Church two and a half miles east of Pomona. The original building, erected in 1873, is used for Sunday School, funerals and other religious services of any denomination. The location, in a pretty valley with much beautiful grass and very little timber, suggested the name to Henry W. Modrel and John A. Mackey, two leading members and elders in the church which was organizxed in 1873, with seventeen members, in the home of John A. Mackey, a prosperous farmer who gave the land for the house and cemetery. After the division in 1906, the organization soon dwindled and was disbanded, and the building was deeded to W.T. Modrel and his successors. For many years the church and cemetery were known as Mackey for John A. Mackey. The first burial was that of the informant's brother, Lewis J. Modrel in January, 1874. (W.T. Modrel; T.J. Whitmire; C.D. Reynolds)
Source: Pottenger, Cora Ann. "Place Names Of Five Southern Border Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1945.