obituaries posted

Hi Everyone,
It has been awhile since I posted. I have discovered the Newspaper collection on Ancestry.com. I have been searching in the Morning Herald from Uniontown PA and the Charleroi Mail from Charleroi, PA. I have found almost 200 articles and obituaries connected with the people who are buried in Beallsville Cemetery. I have posted about half of them and will try to get to the other half in the next few days.

As I've been scanning these papers that go back to 1914, I have noticed that in almost every paper there used to be at least one plane crash, many, many car crashed, mine accidents (not surprising for the Washington PA area since there were so many mines.) I guess it just never occured to me how many people used to die in these types of accidents before the advent of the safety measures we have today. Some of the stories I've found are very sad but I hope that the addition of these to the website, helps shed some light on what life was like in this area all those years ago.

Washington County Veteran burial cemetery maps

I just posted about 159 maps for Washington county cemeteries that have veteran burial lists. These maps were originally created in the 1930s. Once at the website, www.beallsvillecemetery.org, scroll down on the left hand side to Washington County Cemetery list and Veteran Burials.

New Facebook Group

I thought I'd try something new. I started a facebook group that might make it easier to communicate than this blog. I will still post things here as well but right now since the weather has turned nice, I've switched back to working on the cemetery website. I only have two more sections to map and photograph. Hoping to get those done before it gets really hot for the summer.



Facebook group

Q section of Beallsville Cemetery

I spent a few hours at Beallsville Cemetery a few weekends ago taking photos of the tombstones in the Q section. I have started to post these to the website. I am also finishing up the L section (which I think is one of the largest sections of the cemetery because it seems like it is taking me forever to get that section finished !) I have over 500 new photos to post so it will take me awhile.

Once these two sections are done I will only have 2 more to go. These are relatively small and are the newer sections of the cemetery.

I have also started going through online newspaper collections trying to find obituaries and articles for as many people buried in Beallsville as I can. Hoping to make a few more trips down there in the next few months to finish up the mapping and the photographing so I can concnetrate on getting everything on the website.

As a result, my blogging has suffered lately but I haven't forgotten about it. I have started a Facebook group ( the link is on the home page of the Beallsville Cemetery page (www.beallsvillecemetery.org). This blog is OK for posting things but didn't turn out to be the best vehicle for chatting and exchanging information with each other so I thought I'd try something new. We'll see how it goes.

Have a great summer !

Centerville High School Championship Track Team 1916

Centerville High School Championship Track Team 1916

Heston Hill, Paul Grimes, Perry Hoatman, Bill Fisher, Lee Thistlethwaite, Ralph Weaver, Vaun Moffitt, Donald McCune

Snowed in

Well, we have been snowed in since Saturday (it is now Wednesday night) so I have been able to get alot done on the Beallsville website. I updated the Washington County Death records Volume 2 and am up to the "S" names. I should be able to finish going through the list next week and be able to post the rest of the list soon after that.

I also uploaded a partial interment listing for Buckingham Cemetery along with the photos that I have of some of the tombstones.

I spent alot of time on updating existing pages in the website, making corrections, fixing broken links and connecting more of the information to individual personal pages (tombstone, interment listings, lot owner books, plotmaps, obituaries, etc) I'm hoping this makes things easier to locate.

I still have about 200 pages of Lot Owner Book 2 to rescan and upload. I lost the original jpg files for this book ! Fortunately I had hard copies that I can rescan and load. I am blocking out addresses and phone numbers on these pages however because they are more recent and I would like to protect living people's privacy. This is taking a bit more time so progress is slow.

Back to work tomorrow - snow days are over - even though the snow isn't over.

Miranda O'Donnell obituary

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