Name/Title
Briner (a/k/a Bryner) - Springhill Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.235Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
Both the WPA Surveyor and local historian Dorothy Hennen listed Bryner Cemetery as very near to Riggs Cemetery #1 and Ayers Cemetery. According to Hennen's descriptions written in 1967 and 1976, the three burial grounds are located on "Wagonrun Road, off Fish Creek, about one mile from the compressor station" in Springhill 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:
None.
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: 328, Bryner Cemetery.Collection
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Search Terms
Bryner family, Cemeteries--Maps, Springhill (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--CemeteriesProvenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Springhill TownshipAcquisition Method
DigitalAcquisition Date
2019Notes
SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Springhill Township - Briner Cemetery (a/k/a Bryner Cemetery) (1935), item no. 2016.3.235, 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).