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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 Broxton (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 Broxton. 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 and doctors 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.

Broxton is located in Coffee County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Coffee County: Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Telfair & Ware.

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

  • Coffee County     (The home county of Broxton)
  • Appling County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Broxton, with the one closest to Broxton listed first.
    • Graham
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Graham is located in Appling County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
    • Phillipi
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Phillipi is located in Appling County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillipi
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 707 people
  • Atkinson County
  • Bacon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Broxton, with the one closest to Broxton listed first.
    • Guysie
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Guysie is located in Bacon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guysie
      • Estimated population in 2019: 2,226 people
    • Alma
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Ben Hill County
  • Berrien County
  • Dodge County
  • Irwin County
  • Jeff Davis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Broxton, with the one closest to Broxton listed first.
    • Denton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Kirkland
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Quinn ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Quinn is located in Jeff Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinn
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,652 people
    • Hazlehurst
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Lumber City Ferry
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Lumber City Ferry is located in Jeff Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lumber City Ferry
      • Estimated population in 2019: 1,257 people
    • Tallahassee
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Tallahassee is located in Jeff Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tallahassee
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,185 people
  • Telfair County
  • Ware County

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

Cemeteries Near Broxton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Broxton.

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

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

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

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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Broxton had a population of 47 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Broxton had a population of 1,197 people.

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

  • Douglas
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Jacksonville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Nicholls
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Lax
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Lax is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lax
  • China Hill
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • China Hill is located in Telfair County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Hill
  • Cobbville
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Cobbville is located in Telfair County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobbville
  • Bickley
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Bickley is located in Ware County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bickley
  • Temperance
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Temperance is located in Telfair County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temperance
  • Lumber City
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Alapaha
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Beach
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Beach is located in Ware County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beach
  • Graham
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Graham is located in Appling County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Johnsonville ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Johnsonville is located in Appling County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsonville
    • Towns
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Towns is located in Telfair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Towns
    • Millwood
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Broxton ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Broxton.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Broxton. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Broxton and those printed in the larger area surrounding Broxton.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Broxton.

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 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 Broxton:

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