This fund provides:
- For the maintenance, repair and restoration of monuments, headstones and grave markers of historical or architectural significance to the community, thus promoting an appreciation of community history to the educational benefit of the general public.
- Funds for the preservation, beautification and maintenance of abandoned or deteriorating graves of deceased persons and cemeteries generally, focusing on areas open to the public or to the public’s view; and for the care and replacement of trees, flowers, shrubbery and lawns, including removal and replacement of diseased trees, thereby contributing to the aesthetic enjoyment of the community and combating deterioration.
- For the maintenance of semipublic areas whose maintenance would otherwise devolve upon government, thereby lessening the burdens of the government.
Support the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Endowment
Gifts to the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Endowment are tax-deductible and can be made in many ways, including cash, bequests, stock, real estate, royalties, insurance beneficiaries and qualified charitable distributions from IRAs.
To mail your donation, please designate the fund and mail to the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, 35 Public Square, Nelsonville, OH 45764.
Donations can be made online by designating the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Endowment when donating.