Name/Title
Mount Tabor - Gilmore Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.212Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
Mount Tabor Cemetery is located about 1 mile northwest of Jollytown in Gilmore Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.
The WPA Surveyor noted that "the vicinity of this church and cemetery is noted as a meeting place of the Knights of the Golden Circle during the Civil War." He also points out that Titus Jolly - founder of nearby Jollytown - is buried here, and that the cemetery was used by Woodruff, Hennen, Shough, Garrison, Roberts, Bland, and Stoops families, among others.
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:
William Stoops - War of 1812
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: 434, Old Tabor Cemetery.Collection
Cemetery Plat (WPA) CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
Cemeteries--Maps, Gilmore (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Mount Tabor Cemetery, Jolly family, Stoops familyArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Nov 16, 1934Provenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Gilmore TownshipAcquisition Method
DigitalAcquisition Date
2019Notes
SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Gilmore Township - Mount Tabor Cemetery (1934), item no. 2016.3.212, 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).