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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 Nellie (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 Nellie. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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.

Nellie is located in Wilcox 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 Wilcox County: Butler, Clarke, Dallas, Lowndes, Marengo & Monroe.

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

  • Wilcox County     (The home county of Nellie)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nellie, with the one closest to Nellie listed first.
    • Asahel
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Coy
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Rockwest
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Yellow Bluff
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Yellow Bluff is located in Wilcox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Bluff
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
    • Camden
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Lower Peach Tree
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Estelle
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Boykin
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Pine Hill
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Pine Hill is located in Wilcox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Hill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 834 people
    • Kimbrough
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Kimbrough is located in Wilcox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimbrough
    • Millers Ferry
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Millers Ferry is located in Wilcox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millers Ferry
    • Anne Manie
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Anne Manie is located in Wilcox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anne Manie
    • Arlington
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Clarke County
  • Conecuh County
  • Dallas County
  • Marengo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nellie, with the one closest to Nellie listed first.
    • Vineland
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Vineland is located in Marengo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineland
    • Flatwood
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Ellison ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Ellison is located in Marengo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellison
    • Magnolia
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Consul
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Consul is located in Marengo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Consul
    • Dixon's Mills
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Dixon's Mills is located in Marengo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon's Mills
    • Thomaston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Moss ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Moss is located in Marengo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moss
    • Crenshaw ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Crenshaw is located in Marengo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crenshaw
    • Hugo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Monroe County

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

Cemeteries Near Nellie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nellie.

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 Nellie - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Nellie had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Coy
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Tinela
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Tinela is located in Monroe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinela
  • Rockwest
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Yellow Bluff
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Yellow Bluff is located in Wilcox County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Bluff
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
  • Fatama
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Fatama is located in Wilcox County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fatama
  • Camden
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Lower Peach Tree
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Buena Vista
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Buena Vista is located in Monroe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista
  • Chestnut
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Chestnut is located in Monroe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut
  • Culpeper
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Culpeper is located in Wilcox County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culpeper
  • River Ridge ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • River Ridge is located in Monroe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Ridge
  • Lovan ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Pine Hill
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Pine Hill is located in Wilcox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Hill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 834 people
    • Natchez
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Rosebud
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Rosebud is located in Wilcox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebud

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

Newspapers Published in Nellie ...

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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nellie.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Nellie, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Nellie.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites 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 Nellie:

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>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>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 Nellie, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Nellie) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.