1-
Green Mount
Cemetery (Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania) Deed No. 37, for
purchase of
Section D, Lot 20 east half. Sold on
31 July
1878 to Simon Rinehart, Jr. as authorized by Green Mount Cemetery Board
President James Inghram and Secretary R. F. Downey. Deed includes
“Rules And
Regulations” section under which item number IX defines the
incorporation of
the cemetery.
2-Photo
of the Green Mount Cemetery entrance on Morris Street, Waynesburg,
Greene County, Pennsylvania. Original, candid. Archived at the
Greene
County Historical
Society (918 Rolling Meadows Road, P.O. Box 127; Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania 15370). Scanned in 2007 by
Candice
Buchanan for the
www.greeneconnections.com
Greene County, Pennsylvania photo archival project.
3-G. Wayne Smith, The Waynesburg
Commons and Parks (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania:
Cornerstone Genealogical Society, 2004), 3-4.
4-Blatchley
family entries, Lot Book A-B-C-BB,
Section B, Lot 18, Green Mount Cemetery Records, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
The record notes that six graves were removed on 14 August 1855, but
does not
say where they were removed from. It is most likely that these graves
came from
the Commons
Cemetery though it
is not certain.
5-Hays
and Wilson
family entries, Lot Book A-B-C-BB, Section B, Lot 45, Green Mount
Cemetery
Records, Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania. The record
notes that five
graves were removed on 30 October 1886 from the cemetery “in Monument Park”
and re-interred in a common grave in Green Mount.
6-Greene County
Quarter Sessions Docket, March Sessions, 1961, No. 7, County
Clerk’s Office, Courthouse, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
7-Greene County
Quarter Sessions Docket, March Sessions, 1961, No. 7, County
Clerk’s Office, Courthouse, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
8-“Cemetery
on Fire” article, Waynesburg Republican, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, 15 March 1871, page
3, column 2.
9-G.
Wayne Smith, The Waynesburg
Commons and Parks (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania:
Cornerstone Genealogical Society, 2004), 5.
10-“New
Cemetery Board” article, Waynesburg Republican, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania,
17 January 1877, page 3, column 6.
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