Name/Title
West Union - Morris Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.173Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
West Union Cemetery is located in West Union, Morris Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, near the Washington County line.
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. W. M. Robertson - Civil War - Sec. E Lot 15
2. Adison Stillwell - Civil War - Sec. E
3. John Iams - Civil War - Sec. D
4. Benjamin Miller - 1812 War - Sec. D
5. James Coe - Civil War - Sec. D
6. D. W. Fry - Civil War - Sec. B Lot 22
7. Frederick Loughman - Revolution - Sec. D
8. Patrick Early - Civil War - Sec. C Lot 12
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10. Ephraim Wilson - Civil War - Sec. B Lot 153
11. Thomas Filby - Civil War - Sec. B Lot 110
12. John B. Carter - Civil War - Sec. B Lot 100
13. Jack Lewis - World War - Sec. B Lot 29
14. Dallas Lank - Civil War - Sec. B Lot 18
15. Joseph Dunn - Civil War - Sec. D Lot 7
16. Milton Day - Civil War - Sec. E Lot 7
17. Cassius Dunn - Civil War - Sec. D Lot 15
18. Rev. G. N. Mattix - Civil War - Sec. D Lot 15
19. Elias Mattox - Civil War - Sec. D Lot 15
20. John Conger - Civil War - Sec. E Lot 5
21. Stephen Conklin - Civil War - Sec. A Lot 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), 5: 296, West Union Cemetery.Collection
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SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Morris Township - West Union Cemetery (1934), item no. 2016.3.173, 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).