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South - Greene Township (filed under Dunkard Township) - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.352Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
Though this WPA Cemetery Plat is filed under Dunkard Township, the South Cemetery depicted is actually located along Route 616, about 3 miles south of Garards Fort, in the southeast section of Greene Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, near the Dunkard Township line.
PROVENANCE OF PLAT MAP:
During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) provided jobs by employing individuals to locate and map area cemeteries. As a part of these surveys, workers also listed veterans buried at each cemetery. The Clerk of Courts Office at the Greene County Courthouse in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, holds one set of the plat maps copied from the originals created during this project. In 2019, these maps were subsequently scanned and researched for the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project.
VETERANS LISTED IN WPA SURVEY:
1. Benjamin South - Revolutionary War
HENNEN RECORDS CROSS-REFERENCE:
Forty years after the WPA, local genealogist Dorothy Hennen personally visited every Greene County, Pennsylvania, cemetery that she could locate. Her 12-volume series, published in the 1970s, is cross-referenced here to provide a resource for further information regarding location descriptions and lists of burials. These books are available at the Cornerstone Genealogical Society in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
Dorothy T. Hennen, compiler, Cemetery Records of Greene County, Pennsylvania, 12 volumes (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania: Cornerstone Genealogical Society, 1975), 8: 549, South Cemetery.Collection
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SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Greene Township (filed under Dunkard Township) - South Cemetery (1934); item no. 2016.3.352, Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection, surveyed by Works Projects Administration, copy on file at the Clerk of Courts Office, Greene County Courthouse; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).