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A visit to the Spear Family Cemetery ...

Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Spear Family Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Spear Family Cemetery (FG ID #2395279)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the Spear Family Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Spear Family Cemetery:

40.7708, -124.0699

The Spear Family Cemetery is located between<2> the communities of Freshwater Corners and Freshwater.  The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<3> to the northwest of Freshwater.

The cemetery is located in Humboldt County<4>.

The county seat for Humboldt County is located in Eureka. Eureka lies just to the west northwest of the Spear Family Cemetery .

Open a Google Map centered on the Spear Family Cemetery.

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 17 that are within 30 miles [48.3 km] of the Spear Family Cemetery.<5>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Spear Family Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 24 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km] of the Spear Family Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Spear Family Cemetery, with the nearest first:

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Spear Family Cemetery. The following communities are located in Humboldt County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Spear Family Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

Websites to help with your 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 websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Spear Family Cemetery:

  • Pages specific to California:
  • Pages specific to Humboldt County:
  • Cemetery Information and Directories:

    • Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

    Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

    We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Spear Family Cemetery:

    Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry:  #2395279

    Footnotes ...

    <1>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.
    <2>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Freshwater Corners and Freshwater. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
    <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 from Point A (ie- Spear Family Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
    <4>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Humboldt, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
    <5>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), be assured that it's not complete and we're still searching for cemeteries to add.
    <6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.