Eakin - Gilmore Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery Plat

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2016.3.194

Scope and Content

ABOUT THIS CEMETERY: Eakin Cemetery is located about 1/4-mile northeast of Jollytown in 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. Justus Eakin - War of 1812 2. Reuben E. Finnelle - Civil War (Confederate) 3. John Gump - Civil War 4. Jefferson Dye - Civil War 5. William Cain - Civil War 6. James L. Cain - Spanish American War 7. Peter Dye - Spanish American War 8. C. A. Cain - Spanish American 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), 7: 416, Eakin Cemetery.

Collection

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Cain family, Cemeteries--Maps, Dye family, Finnell family, Gilmore (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Eakin Cemetery, Gump family

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Jan 29, 1935

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Dye, Jefferson [1844-1911]

Person or Organization

Finnell, Reuben [1815-1891]

Web Links and URLs

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Provenance

Provenance Detail

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Gilmore Township

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2019

Notes

SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Gilmore Township - Eakin Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.194, 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).