Name/Title
Mount Pleasant - Whiteley Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.66Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
The Mount Pleasant Cemetery is located on Route 19, about 3 and 1/2 miles south of Waynesburg, at the top of Gordon Hill, in Whiteley 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. Wm. Pitcock - Civil War - Co. G 85th Pa. Inf.
8. Wm. Smith - Civil War
10. Abraham Shriver - Civil War
Old Part - Wm. Wood - Revolution
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, 1975-1979), 12: 901.Collection
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Search Terms
Cemeteries--Maps, Pitcock family, Shriver family, Smith family, Whiteley (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Wood familyArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Jan 13, 1935Provenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Whiteley TownshipNotes
Source Citation: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Whiteley Township - Mt. Pleasant Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.66, 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).