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 Marcy (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 Marcy. 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.
Marcy is located in Martin County.
To see how the shape of Florida's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Martin County: Glades, Okeechobee, Palm Beach & Saint Lucie.
Below are the counties that are near Marcy. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Marcy:
- Martin County (The home county of Marcy)
- The following are listed by their distance from Marcy, with the one closest to Marcy listed first.
- Port Mayaca
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Indiantown
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Palm City
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- North River Shores
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- North River Shores is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North River Shores
- Stuart
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Rio
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Rio is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio
- Jensen Beach
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Ocean Breeze
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Ocean Breeze is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean Breeze
- Population from the 2020 Census: 413 people
- Former name for Ocean Breeze:
- Ocean Breeze Park
- Port Salerno
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Sewall's Point
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Glades County
- Buckhead Ridge
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Buckhead Ridge is located in Glades County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead Ridge
- Okeechobee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Marcy, with the one closest to Marcy listed first.
- Taylor Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Taylor Creek is located in Okeechobee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Creek
- Cypress Quarters
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Cypress Quarters is located in Okeechobee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Quarters
- Okeechobee
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Palm Beach County
- The following are listed by their distance from Marcy, with the one closest to Marcy listed first.
- Sand Cut ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Sand Cut is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Cut
- Canal Point
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Canal Point is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canal Point
- Former names for Canal Point:
- Canalpoint
- Long Beach
- Nemaha
- New Town
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canal Point <1>
- Bryant ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Pahokee
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Pelican Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Pelican Lake is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelican Lake
- Pelican Lake has also been known as:
- Pelican Bay
- Fremd Village - Padgett Island
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Fremd Village
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Fremd Village is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fremd Village
- Kraemer ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Kraemer is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kraemer
- Torry Island ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Torry Island is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torry Island
- Chosen ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Chosen is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chosen
- Ritta ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Ritta is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ritta
- Ritta has also been known as:
- Ritta Island
- Rood ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Rood is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rood
- Saint Lucie County
- The following are listed by their distance from Marcy, with the one closest to Marcy listed first.
- Port Saint Lucie
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- White City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- White City is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
- Indian River Estates
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Indian River Estates is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian River Estates
- Hutchinson Island South
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Lakewood Park
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Lakewood Park is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Park
- Fort Pierce
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Lucie Village
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Lucie Village is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie Village
- Estimated population in 2015: 619 people
- Saint Lucie
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Lucie is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie
- Population from the 2020 Census: 648 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Marcy, see our County-by-County Page for Marcy.
Cemeteries Near Marcy ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Marcy.
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 Marcy - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Marcy covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Marcy, with the one closest to Marcy listed first.
- Port Mayaca Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Evergreen Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the north of Okeechobee.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #71954 <3>
- Fern Hill Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- White City Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- All Saints Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Basinger Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Ft. Pierce Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Garden of Heavenly Rest
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Marcy. See our List of 1890's Communities around Marcy.
Newspapers Published in Marcy ...
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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Marcy.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Marcy, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Marcy.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Marcy:
- Websites specific to Florida
- Pages specific to Martin County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Glades County
- Okeechobee County
- Palm Beach County
- Saint Lucie County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Florida
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Marcy) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |