Name/Title
McVay - Aleppo Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.10Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
McVay Cemetery is located on the south side of Blacks Creek Road, just west of Long Run Road in Aleppo Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.
In 2011, the McVay Cemetery was reorganized as a non-profit organization.
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 subsuequently scanned and researched for the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project.
VETERANS LISTED IN WPA SURVEY:
1. John McCann - Civil War
2. Benjamin Neal - 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), 1: 27. Hennen references tombstone data recorded by Patty Houston in McVay Cemetery on 20 April 1952.Collection
Cemetery Plat (WPA) CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
Aleppo (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--McVay Cemetery, Cemeteries--Maps, McCann family, McVay family, Neal familyArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Feb 11, 1935Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Neal, Benjamin [1837c-1901]Person or Organization
McCann, John [1831-1897]Related Places
Place
* Untyped Place
Pennsylvania / Greene County / Aleppo Township / McVay CemeteryProvenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Aleppo TownshipNotes
Source Citation: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Aleppo Township - McVay Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.10, 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).