Name/Title
Hutchison - Springhill Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.237Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
Hutchison Cemetery (a/k/a Hutchinson Cemetery) is located 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:
1. Henry Earnest - Civil War
2. Jacob B. Nuss - Civil War
3. Edw. Ferguson - Civil War
4. Peter F. Earnest - Civil War
5. Henry Riggs - Civil War
6. John Nichols - Civil War
7. Mathew Rigle - Civil War
8. Jess Masters - Civil War
9. James Masters - Civil War
10. Isaac Earnest - Civil War
11. Geo. Fonner - Civil War
12. John H. Loar - Civil War
13. Jacob A. Earnest - Civil War
14. Jackson Kimble - Civil War
15. John Herrington - Civil War
16. John Daugherty - 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: 337, Hutchinson Cemetery.Collection
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Cemeteries--Maps, Daugherty family, Earnest family, Ferguson family, Fonner family, Herrington family, Kimble family, Loar family, Masters family, Nichols family, Nuss family, Riggle family, Riggs family, 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 - Hutchison Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.237, 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).