Negro Run - Gilmore Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery Plat

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2016.3.204

Scope and Content

ABOUT THIS CEMETERY: Negro Run Cemetery is located along the Jollytown Road, just past Crabapple Road, formerly known as Negro Run, in Gilmore Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery is located on the right, as you are headed west. The WPA Surveyor noted that fieldstones mark "1 White Grave" and "About 30 Negro Graves." Details provided by Bill Davison, 2015. 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: None. 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: 471, Unidentified Cemetery.

Collection

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

African American, Cemeteries--Maps, Gilmore (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Negro Run Cemetery

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Nov 17, 1934

Web Links and URLs

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Provenance

Provenance Detail

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Gilmore Township

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2019

Notes

SOURCE CITATION: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Gilmore Township - Negro Run Cemetery (1934), item no. 2016.3.204, 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).