Do you know of Grace ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Grace. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Grace.
Our sources for Grace (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Grace other than they indicate that Grace would be found somewhere in De Soto Parish, Louisiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1892.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Grace ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Grace.
Within Louisiana, the name Grace is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Grace [Butler County].
- Jefferson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Grace [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
- Jefferson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Grace [Jefferson County].
- Johnson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Grace [Johnson County].
- Georgia
- Lumpkin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Grace [Lumpkin County].
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Grace [Clay County].
- Michigan
- Presque Isle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Grace [Presque Isle County].
- Mississippi
- Issaquena County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Grace [Issaquena County].
- Missouri
- Montana
- Silver Bow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Grace [Silver Bow County].
- Nebraska
- North Carolina
- Buncombe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Grace [Buncombe County].
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Grace [Lancaster County].
- Tennessee
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Grace [White County].
- Texas
- Washington
- Snohomish County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Grace [Snohomish County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grace ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Grace:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Grace - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in De Soto Parish ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in De Soto Parish.
| Ashland | Pottsville |
| Preston | |
| Frierson's Mill | |
| Waddill | |
| Pleasant Grove | Washburn |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Grace could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong parish. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |