Name/Title
New Freeport (Old and New) - Freeport Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.192Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
New Freeport Cemetery (Old and New) is located in New Freeport, Freeport 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:
Old Section
1. Phillip Gump - Civil War
2. Peter Gump - Civil War
3. Henry Fox - Civil War
New Section
1. John Anderson - Civil War
2. Joseph Whitlatch - Civil War
3. Jesse Daily - Civil War
4. Hiram Gump - Civil 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), 6: 358, New Freeport Cemetery.Collection
Cemetery Plat (WPA) CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
Anderson family, Cemeteries--Maps, Daily family, Fox family, Freeport (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--New Freeport Cemetery, Gump family, Whitlatch familyArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Dec 19, 1934Provenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Freeport TownshipAcquisition Method
DigitalAcquisition Date
2019Notes
SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Freeport Township - New Freeport Cemetery (Old and New) (1934), item no. 2016.3.192, 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).
