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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 Paul (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 Paul. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Paul is located in Conecuh 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 Conecuh County: Butler, Covington, Escambia & Monroe.

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

  • Conecuh County     (The home county of Paul)
  • Butler County
  • Covington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Paul, with the one closest to Paul listed first.
    • Red Level
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • River Falls
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Carolina
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Carolina is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carolina
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
    • Andalusia
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Gantt
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Gantt is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gantt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 214 people
    • Heath
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Heath is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heath
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
    • Libertyville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Libertyville is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libertyville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 110 people
    • Sanford
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Sanford is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 259 people
    • Falco
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Red Oak
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Antioch
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Wing
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Crenshaw County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Paul, with the one closest to Paul listed first.
    • Dozier
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Leon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Merrill Mill
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Escambia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Paul, with the one closest to Paul listed first.
    • Roberts
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Roberts is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
    • Bradley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Bradley is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
    • Brewton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • East Brewton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Riverview
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Riverview is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
  • Monroe County
  • Okaloosa County (FL)
  • Santa Rosa County (FL)

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

Cemeteries Near Paul ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Paul.

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

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

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

  • Garwin Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Horton Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Mt. Union Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Mitchell Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Long Branch Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Johnston Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Johnston Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Feagin Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Herbert Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • New Home Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (191 more) ...
    • Mancill Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Davison Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Hoomesville Church Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)

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>

While we didn't find Paul in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Paul.

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

  • Brooklyn
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Brooklyn is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklyn
  • Mount Union
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Loango
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Loango is located in Covington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loango
  • Cohassett
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Cohassett is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cohassett
  • Fairfield
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Fairfield is located in Covington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield
  • Red Level
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • River Falls
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Jay Villa ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Rome
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Rome is located in Covington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rome
  • Boykin
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Boykin is located in Escambia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boykin
  • Evergreen
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Sparta ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Paul ...

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 55 newspapers that have been published in the area around Paul.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Paul, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Paul.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Paul:

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 Paul, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Paul) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.