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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 Grange Corner (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 Grange Corner. 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 Grange Corner ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Grange Corner: Grange Cor. (or less commonly used: Grange Crn.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Grange Corner. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Grange Corner.

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 northeast 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 north.

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 north 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.

Grange Corner is located in Vigo 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 Vigo County: Clark (IL), Edgar (IL), Clay, Parke, Sullivan & Vermillion.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Grange Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Grange Corner.

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 Grange Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Cooper Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Mewhinney Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Hyde Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Swalls Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Rhule Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Mewhinney Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Chamberlain Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Moses Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Hobmeyer Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Mt. Calvary Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • German Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
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    • Billtown Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Harpold Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Roberts Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)

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 Grange Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Grange Corner.

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

  • Swalls
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Cloverland
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Seelyville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Seelyville is located in Vigo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seelyville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,004 people
  • Riley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Riley is located in Vigo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riley
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 217 people
  • Staunton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Staunton is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Staunton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 502 people
  • Cory
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Burnett
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Art
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Turner
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Prairie City
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Markles
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Markles is located in Vigo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markles
  • Youngstown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
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    • Saline City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Saline City is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saline City
    • Ashboro
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Ashboro is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashboro
    • Hoosierville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Hoosierville is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoosierville

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

Newspapers Published in Grange Corner ...

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 123 newspapers that have been published in the area around Grange Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Grange Corner, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Grange Corner.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Grange Corner:

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 Grange Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Grange Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.