Thomas II - Center Township - Greene County - Pennsylvania - WPA Cemetery Plat

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2016.3.44

Scope and Content

ABOUT THIS CEMETERY: Thomas Cemetery II is located on the east side of Oak Forest Road, just before the Woods Covered Bridge. It is very near to Thomas Cemetery I. This cemetery is all but destroyed, all the markers are missing, except for the top of a Broken Marker which seems to bear the Name "Cassandria." (Details provided by Matt W. Cumberledge, 2021.) 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: 1. Wm. G. Thomas - 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), 2: 62, index of Center Township cemeteries. This cemetery is not listed, indicating it was not located by Hennen in the 1970s.

Collection

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Center (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Cemeteries--Thomas Cemetery, Cemeteries--Maps, Thomas family

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Dec 5, 1934

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Cemetery Plat (WPA) Collection - Center Township

Notes

Source Citation: WPA Cemetery Plat - Pennsylvania - Greene County - Center Township - Thomas Cemetery (1934), item no. 2016.3.44, 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).