Fordyce - Center Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery Plat

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2016.3.25

Scope and Content

ABOUT THIS CEMETERY: Fordyce Cemetery is located off Hargus Creek Road in Center 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: (Transcribed by Linda (Widdup) Moon, 2019) 1. John A. Fordyce - Civil War 2. Rev. W. C. Fordyce - Civil War - 85 Rgt. 3. Edward Wood - Civil War - Co. I 1st W.Va. Cav. 4. John Cooper - Civil War - 85th Reg. 5. Silas Fordyce - Civil War - 18th Pa. Cav. 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), 2: 67.

Collection

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Cemeteries--Maps, Center (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Fordyce Cemetery, Cooper family, Fordyce family, Wood family

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Feb 4, 1935

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Place

Location

Pennsylvania / Greene County / Center Township / Fordyce Cemetery

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Center Township

Notes

Source Citation: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Center Township - Fordyce Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.25, 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 (www.GreeneConnections.com).