A visit to the Vawter Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Vawter Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Vawter Cemetery (FG ID #2298669)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Vawter Cemetery ...
The Vawter Cemetery is located in Shawnee County<2>.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
We've listed the following cemeteries alphabetically:
- Auburn Cemetery
- The Auburn Cemetery is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auburn Cemetery
- Boles Cemetery
- Burlingame City Cemetery
- Carbondale Cemetery
- The Carbondale Cemetery is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbondale Cemetery
- Dover Cemetery
- The Dover Cemetery is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover Cemetery
- Elevation Cemetery
- The Elevation Cemetery is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elevation Cemetery
- Emmanuel Cemetery
- The Emmanuel Cemetery is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmanuel Cemetery
- Foster Cemetery
- The Foster Cemetery is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster Cemetery
- Highland Cemetery
- The Highland Cemetery is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Cemetery
- Lynn Creek Cemetery
- The Lynn Creek Cemetery is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn Creek Cemetery
- Mission Center Cemetery
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
- The Mt. Calvary Cemetery is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Calvary Cemetery
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
- Pleasant Hill Cemetery
- Prairie Center Cemetery
- Ridgeway Cemetery
- The Ridgeway Cemetery is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeway Cemetery
- St. Bartholomew Cemetery
- Scranton Cemetery
- The Scranton Cemetery is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scranton Cemetery
- Shawnee Center Cemetery
- Shawnee Center Cemetery
- Somervell Cemetery
- The Somervell Cemetery is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somervell Cemetery
- Yocum Cemetery
- The Yocum Cemetery is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yocum Cemetery
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 28 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Vawter Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically:
- Auburn
- Berryton
- Big Springs
- Burlingame
- Carbondale
- Carbondale is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbondale
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,347 people
- Cullen Village
- Cullen Village is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cullen Village
- Dover
- Grantville
- Grantville is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantville
- Harveyville
- Harveyville is located in Wabaunsee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harveyville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 246 people
- Highland Park
- Highland Park is located in Shawnee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Park
- Kiro
- Mineral Springs
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- North Topeka
- Oakland
- Osage City
- Overbrook
- Pauline
- Peterton
- Richland
- Scranton
- Silver Lake
- Spencer
- Stull
- Stull is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stull
- Tecumseh
- Topeka
- Vassar
- Watson
- Wilmington
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Vawter Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Shawnee County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Vawter Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Burlingame
- Carbondale
- Grantville
- Osage City
- Overbrook
- Scranton
- Silver Lake
- Topeka
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Vawter Cemetery:
- Pages specific to Kansas:
- Pages specific to Shawnee County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Vawter Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #2298669
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Shawnee, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Vawter Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
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