Name/Title
Slonaker - Aleppo Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery PlatEntry/Object ID
2016.3.13Scope and Content
ABOUT THIS CEMETERY:
Slonaker Cemetery is located on the road from Aleppo to Cameron, about 5 miles from Cameron, in the west-central section of Aleppo Township.
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:
Transcribed by Linda (Widdup) Moon, 2019.
1. David Slonaker - Co. D. W.Va. Inf. - Civil War
2. John Hartzell - Co. B. 12th W.Va. Inf. - Civil War
3. James McCormick - Civil War
4. Commodore Rush (Parry) - Civil War
5. Jacob Keller (John) - 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, 1975-1979), 1: 37, Slonaker Cemetery.Collection
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Search Terms
Aleppo (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Slonaker Cemetery, Cemeteries--Maps, Slonaker familyArchive Details
Date(s) of Creation
Feb 4, 1935Provenance
Provenance Detail
Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Aleppo TownshipNotes
Source Citation: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Aleppo Township - Slonaker Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.13, 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).