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Veterans Burial Index
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Published: August 11, 2016
Total records: 17,000+

The document below indexes the lives of over 17,000 Lancaster County veterans buried across city cemeteries and rural family plots. The Lancaster County Archives Veteran Burials record over 200 years of veteran burials spanning the late 1700s through the 1980s.

History

Beginning in 1885, county commissioners across Pennsylvania were directed to provide burial expenses for Civil War soldiers that were poor and died destitute. Destitute Veteran Burial records were the beginning of a series of veteran burial records kept by Lancaster County government offices. In 1929, county commissioners were directed to compile a record of all soldiers buried across cemeteries in Lancaster County. This project was begun during the 1930s Work Progress Administration and resulted in an inventory of veteran grave markers going back to the American Revolution. Additional compensation was continued by county commissioners through the late twentieth century to pay burial expenses for local veterans.

Veterans Burial Index

• Veterans Burial Index, Lancaster County, PA (534 pages, 9.56 MB)