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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 Stone Bluff (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 Stone Bluff. 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 Stone Bluff ...

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 Stone Bluff: Stone Blf. (or less commonly used: Stone Bluf.)

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 hospitals and 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.

Stone Bluff is located in Fountain 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 Fountain County: Montgomery, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vermillion & Warren.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Stone Bluff ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stone Bluff.

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 Stone Bluff - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Stone Bluff, with the one closest to Stone Bluff 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Stone Bluff had a population of 124 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Aylesworth
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Aylesworth is located in Fountain County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aylesworth
  • Veedersburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Rob Roy
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Rob Roy is located in Fountain County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rob Roy
  • Layton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Mellott
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Mellott is located in Fountain County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mellott
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 194 people
  • Fountain
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Fountain is located in Fountain County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain
  • Hillsboro
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Covington
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Williamsport
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Steam Corner
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Steam Corner is located in Fountain County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steam Corner
  • Attica
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Wingate
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • West Lebanon
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Yeddo
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Yeddo is located in Fountain County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeddo
    • Coal Creek
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Coal Creek is located in Fountain County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Creek

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

Newspapers Published in Stone Bluff ...

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 68 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stone Bluff.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stone Bluff, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stone Bluff.

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 Stone Bluff:

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Stone Bluff) 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.
<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 Stone Bluff, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.