Name/Title
Hennen (a/k/a Six) - Gilmore Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.219Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
Hennen Cemetery (a/k/a Six Cemetery) is located in Gilmore Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.
The WPA Surveyor noted that the Hennen Cemetery was used by the Six family.
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), 7:397, index of Gilmore Township cemeteries. This cemetery is not listed, indicating it was either not located by Hennen in the 1970s or is listed under another name. Note that Hennen does list a separate Hennen Cemetery on page 425, but that cemetery description is a better match to the WPA Map for the Woodruff Cemetery, see item # 2016.3.218.Collection
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Search Terms
Cemeteries--Maps, Gilmore (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Hennen Cemetery, Gilmore (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Six Cemetery, Six familyArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Dec 18, 1934Provenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Gilmore TownshipAcquisition Method
DigitalAcquisition Date
2019Notes
SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Gilmore Township - Hennen Cemetery (a/k/a Six Cemetery) (1934), item no. 2016.3.219, 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).