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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 Annieville (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 Annieville. 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 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.

Annieville is located in Lawrence County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lawrence County: Craighead, Greene, Independence, Jackson, Randolph & Sharp.

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

  • Lawrence County     (The home county of Annieville)
  • Craighead County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Annieville, with the one closest to Annieville listed first.
    • Egypt
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Egypt is located in Craighead County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egypt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 111 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Egypt <1>
    • Cash
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Cash is located in Craighead County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cash
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 359 people
    • Bono
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Bono is located in Craighead County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bono
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,595 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bono <1>
  • Fulton County
  • Greene County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Annieville, with the one closest to Annieville listed first.
    • Light
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Light is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Light
    • Delaplaine
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Delaplaine is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delaplaine
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
  • Independence County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Annieville, with the one closest to Annieville listed first.
    • Cave City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Cord
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Charlotte
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Charlotte is located in Independence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte
    • Sandtown
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Pfeiffer
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Izard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Annieville, with the one closest to Annieville listed first.
    • Horseshoe Bend
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Bone Town
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Bone Town is located in Izard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone Town
    • Franklin
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Jackson County
  • Randolph County
  • Sharp County
  • Oregon County (MO)
  • Ripley County (MO)
    • Gatewood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Gatewood is located in Ripley County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gatewood

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

Cemeteries Near Annieville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Annieville.

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

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

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

  • Dent Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Park Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Holobaugh Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Old Bethel Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Opposition Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Kelley Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Hope Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Coffman Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Bratcher Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Sharp Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Nation Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (334 more) ...
    • Campbell Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Rhea Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Townsend Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 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>

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

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

  • Imboden
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Opposition ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Opposition is located in Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opposition
  • Ravenden
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Smithville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Powhatan
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Black Rock
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Kingsville ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Kingsville is located in Randolph County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsville
  • Williford
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Williford is located in Sharp County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williford
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
  • Lynn
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Portia
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Noland
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Noland is located in Randolph County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noland
  • Birdell
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Reed ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Reed is located in Sharp County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed
    • Lima
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Ravenden Springs
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Annieville ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Annieville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Annieville, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Annieville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Annieville:

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 Annieville, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Annieville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.