Lazear - Richhill Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery Plat

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2016.3.310

Scope and Content

ABOUT THIS CEMETERY: Lazear Cemetery is located in Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. 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 F. Braden - Civil War 2. David Winters - Civil War 3. Moses Jones - Civil War 4. Edward Bond Sr. - Civil War 5. Jesse B. Hewitt - World War 6. Samuel B. Hewitt - Civil War 7. Alex McDonald - Civil War 8. James Daily - Civil War 9. W. H. Holmes - Civil War 10. Henry Holmes - Civil War 11. James Barnhart Sr. - War of 1812 12. Lewis Barnhart - Civil War 13. Alex McCracken - Civil War 14. Enos Gillet - Civil War 15. James R. Barnett - Civil War 16. John W. Chambers - Civil War 17. S. H. Barnett - Civil War 18. Nathaniel Lyon - Civil War 19. John Wilford Gray - World War 20. Ellis Bane - 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, 1975-1979), 11: 777, Lazear Cemetery.

Collection

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Cemeteries--Maps, Richhill (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1934

Relationships

Related Places

Place

Township

Richhill Township

County

Greene County

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Web Links and URLs

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Provenance

Provenance Detail

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Richhill Township

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2019

Notes

SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Richhill Township - Lazear Cemetery (1934); item no. 2016.3.310, 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).