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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Maysville (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Maysville. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Maysville is located in Madison County.

To see how the shape of Alabama's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Madison County: Jackson, Limestone, Marshall, Morgan, Franklin (TN) & Lincoln (TN).

Below are the counties that are near Maysville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Maysville:

  • Madison County     (The home county of Maysville)
  • Colbert County
    • Garner ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Garner is located in Colbert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner
  • Jackson County
  • Limestone County
  • Marshall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Maysville, with the one closest to Maysville listed first.
    • Grant
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Ferns Quarter ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Ferns Quarter is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferns Quarter
    • Fort Deposit ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Fort Deposit is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Deposit
    • Columbus City Ferry
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Columbus City Ferry is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus City Ferry
    • Columbus City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Columbus City is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus City
    • Union Grove
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • North ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • North is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North
    • Mid ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Mid is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mid
    • Friendship
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Grassy
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Ruth
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Scant City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Scant City is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scant City
    • Warrenton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Maysville, with the one closest to Maysville listed first.
    • Lacey's Spring
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Morgan City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Morgan City is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan City
    • Briscoe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Valhermoso Springs
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Bluff City ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Bluff City is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City
    • Winton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Apple Grove
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Florette
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Somerville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Franklin County (TN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Maysville, with the one closest to Maysville listed first.
    • Huntland
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Beans Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Lexie
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Sal City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Sal City is located in Franklin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sal City
    • Garner Ford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Garner Ford is located in Franklin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garner Ford
      • Estimated population in 2014: 309 people
  • Giles County (TN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Maysville, with the one closest to Maysville listed first.
    • Ardmore
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Ardmore is located in Giles County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ardmore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,218 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ardmore <1>
    • Elkmont Springs
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Lincoln County (TN)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Maysville, see our County-by-County Page for Maysville.

Cemeteries Near Maysville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Maysville.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Maysville - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Maysville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Maysville, with the one closest to Maysville listed first.

  • Daniel - Lawler Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Drake - Keith Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Chambless - Byrne Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Morrow - Stewart Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Jehu Lawler Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Crowson Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Lawler Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Spriggs Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Hewlett Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Sublett Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Sanford Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Vinson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (1029 more) ...
    • Blair Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Bone Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Bone Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Maysville had a population of 218 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Maysville, with the one closest to Maysville listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Maysville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Maysville.

Newspapers Published in Maysville ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 82 newspapers that have been published in the area around Maysville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Maysville, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Maysville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Maysville:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Maysville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Maysville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.