Name/Title
Pleasant Hill (a/k/a Rice) - Gilmore Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.208Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
Pleasant Hill Cemetery (a/k/a Rice's Cemetery) is located about 2 miles east of New Freeport, in Gilmore 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. Ezra Six - Civil War - Co. K 14th WV Inf.
2. Albert M. Chaney - World War
3. Ira L. Wildman - World War - Co. F 210th Engineers
4. Jackson Wise - Civil War - Co. I 61st Pa. Vol.
5. Isaac Gray - Civil War - Co. F and H 85th Pa. Vol. Inf.
6. Joshua Rice - Civil War - Co. F 7th WV Inf.
7. Joseph D. Kennedy - Civil War - Co. C 61st Pa. Vol.
8. Richard Pethtel - Civil War - Co. I 37th and Co. F 1st WV Inf.
9. James Stiles - Civil War - Co. N 6th WV Vol.
10. Geo. W. Shough - Civil War - Co. F 7th WV Inf.
11. Silas Cornwell - Civil War - Co. N 6th WV Inf.
12. William L. Knight - Civil War - Co. N 6th WV Inf.
13. Salathiel Murphy - Civil War - Co. A 18th Pa. Cav.
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: 451, Pleasant Hill Cemetery.Collection
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Search Terms
Cemeteries--Maps, Chaney family, Cornwell family, Gilmore (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries, Gray family, Kennedy family, Knight family, Murphy family, Pethtel family, Rice family, Shough family, Six family, Stiles family, Wildman family, Wise familyArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Jan 16, 1935Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Rice, Joshua [1840-1896]Provenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Gilmore TownshipAcquisition Method
DigitalAcquisition Date
2019Notes
SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Gilmore Township - Pleasant Hill Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.208, 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).