Green Mount Cemetery - Volunteers
Volunteers Begin Summer Work In
Historic Green Mount Cemetery
| On Saturday, June 3, 2006,
11 volunteers arrived in historic Green Mount
Cemetery to begin a summer clean-up and restoration project. Throughout
the first day 27 tombstones received major attention. Sinking and leaning
tombstones were dug out so that new foundations could be laid and the stones
reset. Fallen tombstones laying face down were lifted to be reset and able
to be read again for the first time in many years. A number of other stones
were cleaned up from shifting ground and weeds which were slowly covering
their inscriptions. The oldest stones repaired dated to the 1840s. Work
stretched from one end of the cemetery to the other with volunteers trying
to prioritize the markers with the greatest needs for this first round
of improvements.
Work days have continued throughout the summer, and will continue throughout the year, generally taking place the first Saturday of each month. Below is a list of tombstones that have received substantial work so far this summer, as the final improvements are completed additional photographs and information will be added (please check back) - all photographs are dated so you can easily see if a photo was taken before or after repairs were made (just click a linked listing to see more):
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Volunteers Glenn Toothman and George Kelley lift the fallen stone of Hon. Enos Hook, United States Congressman from Greene County, PA. |
leaning tombstones belonging to Russell Karl Yoders and his parents, William & Clemma. Russell was killed in World War I on 29 July 1918 and is one of the Greene County soldiers known as the "Rain Day Boys." |
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We are always looking for more volunteers, if you are interested please call Candice at 724-627-8841, ext. 7 or send an email to candicelynnb@yahoo.com. Donations are needed for supplies, general maintenance and restoration efforts in Green Mount Cemetery, please send to: Green Mount Cemetery, c/o Mary Hopkins, 2248 Smith Creek Road, Waynesburg, PA 15370. |
Dorsey and Ogden tombstones, two of the ten stones in Green Mount's African American Section that received much needed attention. |
Volunteer George Blystone digs out the tombstone of Elizabeth Day Whitman, an 1878 Waynesburg College graduate whose inscription was almost lost below ground. |
Volunteer Bill Davison uses a copper wire to help locate unmarked graves in Green Mount's African American Section. Unmarked graves are very numerous throughout the entire cemetery. |
Volunteer Angela Buchanan clears tombstones of grass and debris and pulls weeds growing between markers difficult for mowers to reach. |
With other volunteers ready to assist, Glenn Toothman and George Kelley lift and set the tombstone of Civil War veteran James A. Woods whose stone, now able to be read, tells us that he died from wounds received in the service of his country. |
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Volunteer Donna Buchanan cleans off the tombstone of Jesse & Emeline Inghram after digging a large part of the stone out from several inches of earth. |
Volunteers Garrett and Glenn Toothman work with George Kelley to uncover the badly sunken stone of Sarah J. Pipes. |
Volunteer Chuck Jameson pours the new foundation for Samuel Allison's fallen tombstone. |
Volunteers rest at the end of Work Day #1 after pulling the four Adams children stones, dating to the 1840s, out of the hole dug to free them from where they had sunk many inches into the earth. |
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