Windy Gap - Aleppo Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery Plat

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2016.3.15

Scope and Content

ABOUT THIS CEMETERY: Windy Gap Cemetery is located beside Windy Gap Church along the Springhill-Aleppo Township line. 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, and virtual volunteers through the Greene Connections Archives crowdsourcing project, 2020. 1. James Coen - Civil War - Co. D 1st Reg W.Va. Inf. 2. Thomas Barnhart - Civil War - Co. C. 18th Pa. Cav. 3. Latone Huffman - Civil War - 6th, 11th Pa. Inf. 4. Jacob Rhome - Civil War - Co. A 10th W.Va. Inf. 5. Henry Riffle - Civil War - Co. B 7th W.Va. Inf. 6. Lindsey Davis - Civil War 7. Henry Hinerman - Civil War - Co. A 18 Pa. 8. Engle Pierson - Civil War - Co. H 105 Pa. Inf. 9. Alexander Whipkey - Civil War - Co. D 1st W.Va. Inf. 10. Corbley Kinney - Civil War [31st Regiment Ohio Infantry] 11. Wm. Rhome - Civil War 12. Philemon Pierson - Civil War 13. Henry Henderson - Civil War 14. Geo. Carroll - 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: 51, Windy Gap Cemetery.

Collection

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Aleppo (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Windy Gap Cemetery, Barnhart family, Cemeteries--Maps, Coen family, Huffman family, Rhome family, Riffle family, Davis family, Hinerman family, Pierson family, Whipkey family, Kinney family, Henderson family, Carroll family

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Jan 11, 1935

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Aleppo Township

Notes

Source Citation: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Aleppo Township - Windy Gap Cemetery (1935), item no. 2016.3.15, 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).