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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 Graham Valley (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 Graham Valley. 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.

Name Variations for Graham Valley ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Graham Valley: Graham Vly. (or less commonly used: Graham Vally. or Graham Vlly.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Graham Valley is located in Warrick County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Warrick County: Dubois, Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Daviess (KY) & Henderson (KY).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Graham Valley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Graham Valley.

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 Graham Valley - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Massey Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Morrison Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Wesley Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Lynnville Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Crossroad Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Reed Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Shiloh Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Barrenfork Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Clutter Stone Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Kelley Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Mill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
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    • Leslie Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Eden Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • St. Pauls Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)

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>

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

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

  • Eby
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Eby is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eby
  • Lynnville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Dickeyville ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Stanley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Stanley is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
  • Scalesville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Scalesville is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scalesville
  • Boonville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Folsomville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Spurgeon
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Spurgeon is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spurgeon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 201 people
  • Chandler
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Chandler is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chandler
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,288 people
  • De Gonia Springs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Mackey
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Buckskin
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
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    • Elberfeld
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Elliott
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Elliott is located in Vanderburgh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliott
    • Eames
      (10 miles [16.1 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 Graham Valley. See our List of 1890's Communities around Graham Valley.

Newspapers Published in Graham Valley ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Graham Valley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Graham Valley, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Graham Valley.

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 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 Graham Valley:

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 Graham Valley, 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- Graham Valley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.