General Notes

John and Mary Gilreath were inclined to be friendly toward strangers. Their home became a stopping place for many of these people. They were converted to the Methodist faith. This happend about 1835. They with their relatives the Neals, the Moores, the Lovetts, the Wilsons, the Ashtons, and others, built a log church house near the center of where the cemetery is now located. Old Uncle Jeffy Moore's child died. It was buried near the church house. This child has the honor of being the first person buried in the Pleasant Run Cemetery. Someone brought their slaves to work on a piece of land they owned on down the creek. One of these slaves died. He has the honor of being the second person buried in the cemetery.

John cleared up a few acres of land and built a two-story log house about a hundred yards off the Jacksboro Road and about a quarter of a mile west of the present location of the Pleasant Run Church and Cemetery. Mary and John prospered. Mary gave birth to thirteen (13) children. Their names were: Ben, Lewis, Hannah, Matt, Vina, Sallie, Wiley, Julia, Leroy, Jane, little Sid, Sol, and Vira.