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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 Macedonia (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 Macedonia. 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/Parishes ...

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

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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/parishes 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/parishes, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

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

Macedonia is located in Columbia 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 Columbia County: Lafayette, Nevada, Ouachita, Union, Claiborne (LA) & Webster (LA).

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

  • Columbia County     (The home county of Macedonia)
  • Hempstead County
    • Patmos
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Patmos is located in Hempstead County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patmos
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
  • Lafayette County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macedonia, with the one closest to Macedonia listed first.
    • McKamie
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Buckner
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Buckner is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckner
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
    • Stamps
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Kress City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Kress City is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kress City
    • Lewisville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Old Town
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Old Town is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
    • Bradley
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Walnut Hill
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Gin City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Gin City is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gin City
  • Miller County
  • Nevada County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macedonia, with the one closest to Macedonia listed first.
    • Willisville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Willisville is located in Nevada County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willisville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 139 people
    • Bodcaw
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Rosston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Ouachita County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macedonia, with the one closest to Macedonia listed first.
    • Stephens
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Pace City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Pace City is located in Ouachita County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pace City
    • Lufra ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Lufra is located in Ouachita County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lufra
  • Union County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macedonia, with the one closest to Macedonia listed first.
    • Mount Holly
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Dodge City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Dodge City is located in Union County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodge City
    • Lisbon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Bossier Parish (LA)
  • Claiborne Parish (LA)
  • Webster Parish (LA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macedonia, with the one closest to Macedonia listed first.
    • Springhill
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Shongaloo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Cullen
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Cullen is located in Webster Parish (LA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cullen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,056 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cullen <1>
    • Sarepta
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Cotton Valley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Macedonia ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Macedonia.

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

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

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

  • Macedonia Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Kings Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Owen Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Rocky Mount Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Stewart - Walkerville Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Scott Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Antioch Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Jerusalem Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Memorial Gardens
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Magnolia Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Sharman Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Rudd Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (229 more) ...
    • Barlow Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Frazier Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Glover Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)

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, Macedonia had a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Macedonia ...

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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Macedonia.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Macedonia, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Macedonia.

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 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 Macedonia:

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 Macedonia, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Macedonia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.