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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 Matthews (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 Matthews. 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 and hospitals 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.

Matthews is located in Weld County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Weld County: Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Kimball (NE) & Laramie (WY).

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

  • Weld County     (The home county of Matthews)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Matthews, with the one closest to Matthews listed first.
    • Gill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Galeton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Spanish Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Spanish Village is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Village
    • Kersey
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Hardin
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Hardin is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardin
    • Lucerne
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Garden City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Garden City is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 279 people
    • Eaton
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Briggsdale
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Greeley
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Ault
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • La Salle
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Evans
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Larimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Matthews, with the one closest to Matthews listed first.
    • Kerns
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Kerns is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerns
    • Timnath
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Wellington
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Loveland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Matthews, with the one closest to Matthews listed first.
    • Orchard
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Wiggins
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Weldona
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Matthews ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Matthews.

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

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

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

  • Linn Grove Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Eaton Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Evans Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Sunset Memorial Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Briggsdale Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Ault Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Pilgrim Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lakeview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Windsor.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #277751 <2>
  • Christian Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christian Cemetery
    • The Christian Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Horst Cemetery
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the northeast of Nunn.
  • Mizpah Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mizpah Cemetery
    • Former name for Mizpah Cemetery:
    • Sandhill Cemetery
  • Johnstown Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown Cemetery
    • Former names for Johnstown Cemetery:
    • Dilley Chapel Cemetery
    • Elwell Cemetery
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Timnath Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Keota Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Roselawn Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Hardin
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Hardin is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardin
  • Eaton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Greeley
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • La Salle
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Evans
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Masters
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Masters is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masters
  • Pierce
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Hillsboro
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hillsboro is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro
  • Windsor
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Windsor is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 27,659 people
    • Former names for Windsor:
    • New Liberty
    • New Windsor
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Windsor <1>
  • Roggen
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Goodrich
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Goodrich is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
  • Platteville
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Timnath
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Dover
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Dover is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
    • Keota
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Keota is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keota

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

Newspapers Published in Matthews ...

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 77 newspapers that have been published in the area around Matthews.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Matthews, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Matthews.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Matthews:

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>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- Matthews) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Matthews, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.