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Smith I - Morgan Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.267Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
Smith Cemetery I is located at the southern end of Morgan Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, near the Franklin Township border.
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. John Huss Hoge - Civil War
2. Inghram Pratt - Civil War
3. Maj. G. Z. [sic L.] Gordon - Spanish American War
4. Levi Taylor - 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), 10: 703, Smith Cemetery I.Collection
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SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Morgan Township - Smith Cemetery I (1934), item no. 2016.3.267, 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).