List of dead and missing people in the Johnstown Pennsylvania Flood of 1889. To find out more information about this flood, view pictures and video, visit the main page: The Johnstown Pennsylvania Horror
Last Name, First, Age(if known) Address Buried
Abbreviations used in the list of dead and missing:
GCG:German Catholic Cemetery (Geistown)
GC-PL: Grandview Cemetery Private Lot
GC-PP: Grandview Cemetery Public Plot-Bodies found but not recovered by family/friends
GCS: German Catholic Cemetery (Sandyvale)
LYC: Lower Yoder Catholic Cemetery
Missing: Body Never Recovered
NCR: No Cemetery Record
OCG: Old Catholic Graveyard (Conemaugh Borough)
SC: Sandyvale Cemetery
SM: St. Mary’s Cemetery (Lower Yoder)
P Surnames
- Page, Emma, 11 Mineral Point NCR
- Page, Herman, 6 Mineral Point NCR
- Palmer, Mrs. J.H., 76 Napoleon Street NCR
- Parke, Mrs. Agnes, J., 56 Bedford Street GC-PL
- Parke, William, E. Bedford Street GC-PL
- Parsons, Mrs. Eva, M., 23 Locust Street GC-PL
- Partsch, Mrs. Josephine, 59 Woodvale NCR
- Penrod, William, H., 59 Conemaugh GC-PL
- Peppler, Wm., 20 Conemaugh SC
- Peyton, John, W., 65 Clinton Street GC-PL
- Peyton, George, A., 19 Clinton Street GC-PL
- Peyton, Marcellus, K., 16 Clinton Street GC-PL
- Peyton, Julia, F., 13 Clinton Street GC-PL
- Pfeifer, Charles, 30 Woodvale Missing
- Pfeifer, Ella, 21 Woodvale Missing
- Pheng, John Conemaugh Missing
- Phillips, Mrs. Jane, M., 68 Market Street GC-PL
- Phillips, John, J., 14 Market Street Missing
- Phillips, David, 12 Market Street Missing
- Phillips, Richard, 10 Market Street Missing
- Phillips, Mary, 8 Market Street Missing
- Phillips, Evan, 6 Market Street Missing
- Phillips, Mrs. Eliza, 48 Union Street GC-PP
- Phillips, Mary, 16 Union Street Missing
- Phillips, John, 15 Union Street NCR
- Phillips, Grace, 12 Union Street Missing
- Pike, Fanny, 19 Haynes Street Blairsville, PA
- Pike, William, W., 50 Haynes Street GC-PL
- Pike, William, W., Jr., 15 Haynes Street GC-PL
- Pike, S., Bowen., 10 Haynes Street GC-PL
- Pipple, Mrs. Fourth Ward Missing
- Plummer, Alvin (unknown) Missing
- Poland, Walter, 5 Market Street GC-PL
- Poland, Frederick, 3 Market Street GC-PL
- Pollocks, Louis, 19 Cambria Missing
- Polk, John (unknown) Missing
- Potter, Joseph, R., 63 Woodvale GC-PL
- Potter, Mrs. Sarah, 59 Woodvale GC-PL
- Potter, Nora, G., 17 Woodvale GC-PL
- Potts, Miss Jane, E., 47 Walnut Street GC-PL
- Potts, Mrs. Mary, 29 Market Street Missing
- Powell, Mrs. Reese, 74 Main Street Missing
- Powell, George, 1 1/2 Vine Street GC-PL
- Powell, Richard, 4 wks Vine Street GC-PL
- Pratt, (family of 2) Cambria Missing
- Price, Mrs. Abe, 29 Millville Missing
- Pritchard, Henry, 62 Market Street GC-PL
- Pritchard, Mrs. Henry, 48 Market Street Missing
- Pritchard, Howell, 9 Market Street Missing
- Pritchard, Alice, 5 Market Street Missing
- Pritchard, Rachael, 3 Market Street Missing
- Progner, Samuel, 28 Conemaugh Missing
- Prosser, Mrs. David, 68 Union Street Missing
- Prosser, Fannie, 22 Market Street GC-PL
- Prosser, Bessie, 19 Market Street GC-PL
- Prosser, Maria (unknown) GC-PL
- Pukey, Julius, 23 Cambria Missing
- Pukey, Matilda, 1 Cambria Missing
- Purse, Mary, L. Market Street GC-PL
Hi Mary- Not sure if you are still on this quest, but you can review the original morgue books here: https://www.nps.gov/jofl/learn/historyculture/master-list.htm
Nearly 100 years of my family’s marriage records were wiped out when the flood took the Lutheran church. Good luck with your search.
JR
I need to know if it’s possible that John HENAHAN age 40 listed as a victim of the Johnstown Flood is actually Peter HANIHAN, age 30. Can anyone tell me if there is an original document listing the victims or some other way to determine if a mistake was made? Are there newspaper accounts listing who was missing and on which street they lived?
Peter Hanihan was born about 1859 in Leechburg, Allegheny County, the son of Matthew Hanihan and Catherine Timmins Hanihan, He is listed in the 1887 Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory as Peter HANNAHAN, a laborer who lived at 142 Brush Street. He would have been about 28 years old, then.
Also listed as victims missing and never recovered are Mrs. Mary Henahan age 24, Mary Henahan age 7, Catherine Henahan age 4, and Frances Henahan age 1.
A family story told to me by a cousin is that Peter Hanihan, my great great uncle, volunteered to help recover bodies after the flood and that he died of disease soon afterward. But, to date, I have not found a death or burial record for him, nor, unfortunately, a marriage record.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.