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)
W Surnames
- Wagnor, Henry Cambria GC-PP
- Wagnor, Mrs. Henry Cambria Missing
- Wagnor, Frank Cambria Missing
- Wagnor, John Cambria Missing
- Wagoner, Dr. George, 63 Market Street GC-PL
- Wagoner, Lizzie, 20 Market Street GC-PL
- Wagoner, Mrs. Mary, L. Market Street GC-PL
- Wagoner, Frances, E., 18 Market Street GC-PL
- Wagoner, Cora, M. Market Street GC-PL
- Walford, Frank (unknown) GC-PP
- Walker, Conrad, 27 Clinton Street Missing
- Walker, Ida, J., 22 Conemaugh Missing
- Walser, Mrs. Ann Alum Bank, PA Missing
- Ward, Ella Cambria Missing
- Warkeston, Miss (unknown) GC-PP
- Warren, Edward, 28 Millville Missing
- Warsing, Jane, 24 Coopersdale GC-PP
- Waters, Thomas, J., 15 Conemaugh Missing
- Watkins, Mary, J., 22 Washington Street Missing
- Weakland, John, W., 30 Napoleon Street GC-PL
- Wearn, Mrs. Priscilla, 66 Walnut Street Missing
- Wearn, Richard, 30 King Street Missing
- Wearn, Mrs. Ella, 27 King Street Missing
- Wearn, Willie, 6 King Street GC-PP
- Wearn, Myrtle, 3 King Street Missing
- Weaver, Mrs. Sue, D., 27 Market Street GC-PL
- Weaver, Martha, B., 15mo Market Street GC-PL
- Weaver, Joseph, H., 19 Woodvale Missing
- Weaver, Margaret, J. Second Ward Missing
- Webber, Christian, 31 Woodvale Missing
- Weber, Mrs. Tresa, 43 Cambria SM
- Weber, John, 4 Cambria SM
- Weber, E. Vincent, 26 Woodvale Harrisburg, PA
- Weber, Mrs. Florence, 25 Woodvale Harrisburg, PA
- Wehelco, John Cambria Missing
- Wehn, Casper, 80 Clinton Street Missing
- Wehn, Mrs. Rachael, 57 Main Street SC
- Weinzarl, Annie, 13 Cambria Missing
- Weinzarl, Martha, 11 Cambria Missing
- Weinzarl, Sarah, 7 Cambria Missing
- Weinzarl, Mollie, 5 Cambria Missing
- Weinzarl, John, 3 Cambria Missing
- Weinzarl, George, 4 mo. Cambria Missing
- Weinzierl, Louis, 41 Cambria SM
- Weinzierl, Mrs. Mary, 38 Cambria GC-PP
- Weisc, Rosa, 10 Cambria Missing
- Weisz, Mrs. Martin, 46 Cambria NCR
- Weisz, Jacob, 13 Cambria NCR
- Weisz, Jacob (unknown) NCR
- Weisz, Isaac, 6 Cambria NCR
- Weisz, Anna, 4 Cambria NCR
- Wells, Jennie, 22 Hulbert House Shippensburg, PA
- Welsh, Thomas, 60 Cambria NCR
- Wenner, Mary, 1 Locust Street GC-PL
- Wenner, Carl, 32 Locust Street GC-PL
- Wenner, Mrs. Locust Street GC-PL
- Werberger, Prof. F.P., 70 Locust Street GCS
- Werry, Thomas Albert, 17 Chestnut Street GC-PL
- White, Mrs. Alex., 42 (unknown) Youngstown, OH
- White, Mrs. John, 76 Union Street GC-PP
- White, Mrs. Mima (unknown) GC-PL
- White, Mrs. Ella, 34 Union Street GC-PL
- White, Mrs. Margaret, E. (unknown) GC-PL
- White, Mary, P., 20 Market Street GC-PL
- White, Maggie, 31 Market Street GC-PL
- White, Annie, 23 Market Street Missing
- White, Raymond, 4 Youngstown, OH Missing
- Wickersham, Richard, G., 26 Woodvale Missing
- Wier, Frank, A., 18 Cambria SC
- Wild, Jacob, 72 Main Street GC-PL
- Wild, Mrs. Jacob, 58 Main Street GC-PL
- Wild, Bertha, 16 Main Street GC-PL
- Wild, Mrs. Margaret, 80 Conemaugh NCR
- Will, Elizabeth Conemaugh GC-PP
- Will, Casper, 45 Bedford Street SC
- Williams, Elanor, 7 mo. Lewis Alley NCR
- Williams, Maggie, 26 Lewis Alley GC-PL
- Williams, Joseph, M., 22 Conemaugh Street GC-PL
- Williams, Mrs. Margaret, 27 Conemaugh Street NCR
- Williams, William, J. Union Street GC-PL
- Williams, Carrie, E., 20 Woodvale GC-PL
- Willower, Miss Bella Somerset Street SC
- Willower, Bertha Somerset Street NCR
- Wilson, Mr. Cambria Missing
- Wilson, Dr. J.C., 53 Franklin Headricks, PA
- Wilson, Caroline, E., 52 Franklin Headricks, PA
- Wilson, Charles, H., 45 Hulbert House Quakertown, PA
- Wilson, Mrs. Lavina, 38 E. Conemaugh Missing
- Wilson, James, 33 Mineral Point Missing
- Wilson, Henry, 58 Millville Missing
- Wiseman, Charles, 26 Conemaugh Missing
- Wiseman, Emma, 4 Conemaugh Missing
- Wiseman, August, 2 Conemaugh Missing
- Wissinger, Mrs. Catherine, 47 Morris Street NCR
- Witz, Sarah Third Ward Missing
- Wolf, Anthony, 24 Cambria Missing
- Wolf, Albert, 1 1/2 Cambria Missing
- Wolford, Andrew Conemaugh Missing
- Wolford, (3) Conemaugh Missing
- Woolf, Mrs. M.L. Jackson Street Philadelphia, PA
- Woren, Mrs. Priscilla, 60 Walnut Street Missing
- Woren, Miss, 24 Walnut Street Missing
- Woren, Richard Walnut Street Missing
- Woren, Willie, 6 Walnut Street Missing
- Woren, (2 children) Walnut Street Missing
- Worthington, Mrs. Richard, 28 Conemaugh Street GC-PL
- Worthington, Richard, Jr., 1 Conemaugh Street GC-PL
- Worthington, Mamie, 7 Conemaugh Street GC-PL
- Worthington, Annie, 4 Conemaugh Street GC-PL
Y Surnames
- Yocum, Samuel Third Ward Missing
- Yost, Lottie Jackson Street Missing
- Yost, Laura, 18 Grant Street Missing
- Yost, Charlotte, 16 Pine Street NCR
- Young, Katie (unknown) GC-PL
- Young, Emil, 48 Levergood Street GC-PL
- Young, Frank, 16 Levergood Street GC-PL
- Young, August, 29 Main Street GC-PL
- Young, Andrew, C., 36 Broad Street GC-PL
- Young, Mamie, 12 Broad Street Missing
- Young, Katie, 10 Broad Street Missing
- Young, Mrs. Kate, 34 Market Street Braddock, PA
- Young, Samuel, 13 Market Street Braddock, PA
- Young, Sarah, C., 66 Court Street Armagh, PA
- Youst, Mr. (unknown) Missing
- Youst, Eddie (unknown) Missing
Z Surnames
- Zeller, Rose (unknown) Missing
- Zern, Miss (unknown) Missing
- Ziegler, James, B., 24 (unknown) Indiana, PA
- Zimmerman, Owen, N. (unknown) Missing
- Zimmerman, Emma, 16 Bedford Street GC-PL
- Zimmerman, Theo. F., 34 Locust Street GC-PL
- Zimmerman, Milton, 19 Locust Street Missing
- Zimmerman, Morgan, 11 Young’s Alley Missing
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.