Pleasant Hill Cemetery

Pleasant Hill Cemetery, in eastern Curry County, New Mexico, may be the quintessential high plains burial ground. It's full of well preserved markers bearing witness to the lives of the early homesteaders. It's also full of infant mortality, military service, last chancers, and oddly, longevity. But it's not all hardship and suffering, there's also evidence of lives well lived, and prosperity tortured out of an arid landscape. The village was once part of the Brown Ranch and the Shenault Ranch and was founded in 1910, according to "The Place Names of New Mexico" by Robert Julyan.