Name/Title
Hewitt - Jefferson Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.62Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
The Hewitt Cemetery is located in Rices Landing. The church was formerly associated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
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:
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1. Aaron Waters - Civil War
2. David Rice - Civil War
3. Joseph Davidson - Civil War
4. J. W. Childs - Civil War
5. J. Randolph Hewitt - Civil War
6. John Smith - Civil War
7. S. M. Walton - Civil War
8. Jesse J. Morris - Civil War
9. Thomas Grooms - Civil War
10. Geo. W. Brooks - Civil War
11. James Watson - Civil War
12. Joseph Hathaway - Civil War
13. David Miller - Civil War
14. F. M. Fisher - Civil War
15. Geo. Kline - 1812
16. John Black - Civil War
17. ?
18. ?
19. ?
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1. James Kelly - Rev. War
2. William Kelly - Rev. War
3. Thomas Crago - 1812
4. Samuel S. Kelly - Civil War
5. Eli Hewitt - Civil War
6. P. M. Syphers - Civil War
7. John G. Areford - World War
8. John Metz - Civil War
9. Joseph D. Flenniken - Civil War
10. W. H. McClelland - Civil War
11. Eli Dukate - Civil War
12. Jas. Malone - Civil War
13. William Anderson - Civil War
14. Robert T. Heatley - World War
15. Clark Denny - Civil War
16. Ellis B. Johnson - Civil War
17. William C. Johnson - Civil War
18. Wm. H. Martin - Civil War
19. Alpheus Cunningham - Civil War
20. John Lesso - World War
21. Wm. Crago - 1812
22. ?
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), 9: 575.Collection
Cemetery Plat (WPA) CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
Cemeteries--Maps, Jefferson (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries, Rices Landing (Pa.)--Cemeteries--Hewitt Cemetery, Rices Landing (Pa.)--Church buildings--Hewitt Presbyterian ChurchArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Jan 5, 1935Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Areford, John Goslin [1889-1919]Person or Organization
Heatley, Robert Taylor [1894-1918]Person or Organization
Kelley, William [1759c-1841]Person or Organization
Watson, James [1835-1908]Provenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Jefferson TownshipNotes
Source Citation: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Cumberland (sic Jefferson) Township - Hewitt Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.62, 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).