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 Feliciana (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 Feliciana. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.
Feliciana is located in Graves County.
To see how the shape of Kentucky's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Graves County: Calloway, Carlisle, Hickman, Marshall, McCracken, Henry (TN) & Weakley (TN).
Below are the counties that are near Feliciana. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Feliciana:
- Graves County (The home county of Feliciana)
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Water Valley
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Wingo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Pryorsburg
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Pryorsburg is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pryorsburg
- Lynnville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Lynnville is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynnville
- Sedalia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Tri City
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Tri City is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tri City
- Mayfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Bell City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Bell City is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell City
- Farmington
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Farmington is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmington
- Fancy Farm
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Fancy Farm is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fancy Farm
- Hickory
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Hickory is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory
- Pottsville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Pottsville is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottsville
- Westplains
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Westplains is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westplains
- Ballard County
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Blandville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Blandville is located in Ballard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blandville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
- Lovelaceville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Lovelaceville is located in Ballard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelaceville
- Gage
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Gage is located in Ballard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gage
- Calloway County
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Protemus
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Protemus is located in Calloway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Protemus
- Harris Grove
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Harris Grove is located in Calloway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris Grove
- Kirksey
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Kirksey is located in Calloway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirksey
- Hazel
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Murray
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Almo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Almo is located in Calloway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almo
- New Providence
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- New Providence is located in Calloway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Providence
- Dexter
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Dexter is located in Calloway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dexter
- Carlisle County
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Milburn
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Milburn is located in Carlisle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburn
- Kirbyton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Kirbyton is located in Carlisle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirbyton
- Arlington
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Arlington is located in Carlisle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 296 people
- Cunningham
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Bardwell
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Fulton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Fulton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Cayce
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Cayce is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayce
- Jordan
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Jordan is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan
- Hickman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Hickman County
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Fulgham
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fulgham is located in Hickman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulgham
- Clinton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Moscow
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Moscow is located in Hickman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscow
- Spring Hill
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Spring Hill is located in Hickman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hill
- Columbus
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Columbus is located in Hickman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
- Population from the 2020 Census: 150 people
- Marshall County
- Hardin
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Gibson County (TN)
- Four Points
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Four Points is located in Gibson County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Points
- Henry County (TN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Cottage Grove
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- New Boston
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- New Boston is located in Henry County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Boston
- Mandels ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Mandels is located in Henry County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandels
- Estimated population in 2014: 10,349 people
- Puryear
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Puryear is located in Henry County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puryear
- Population from the 2020 Census: 653 people
- Whitlock
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Whitlock is located in Henry County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitlock
- Conyersville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Conyersville is located in Henry County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conyersville
- Paris
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Obion County (TN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- South Fulton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pierce Station
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Pierce Station is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierce Station
- McConnell
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- McConnell is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McConnell
- Union City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Woodland Mills
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Woodland Mills is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Mills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 358 people
- Rives
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Rives is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rives
- Population from the 2020 Census: 310 people
- Englewood
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Englewood is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
- Estimated population in 2014: 1,532 people
- Troy
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Troy is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,328 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Troy <1>
- Kenton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Kenton is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,190 people
- Obion
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Obion is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obion
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,043 people
- Weakley County (TN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Latham
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Latham is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latham
- Martin
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Terrell
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Terrell is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terrell
- Ralston
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Ralston is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ralston
- Dunlap ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Dunlap is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlap
- Estimated population in 2014: 5,068 people
- Dresden
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Sharon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Ore Springs
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Ore Springs is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ore Springs
- Sidonia
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Sidonia is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidonia
- Gleason
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Tumbling
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Tumbling is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumbling
- Greenfield
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Pillowville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Pillowville is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pillowville
- Estimated population in 2014: 1,625 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Feliciana, see our County-by-County Page for Feliciana.
Cemeteries Near Feliciana ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Feliciana.
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 Feliciana - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Feliciana covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Camp Beauregard Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Pleasant Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Pleasant Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Lawrence Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Old Bethel Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Bethel Cemetery
- The Old Bethel Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Bethel Primitive Baptist Cemetery
- Old Bethlehem Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- New Bethlehem Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Morris Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Pleasant Valley Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Mt. Moriah Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Osborne Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (672 more) ...
- Hainline Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Adams Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Enon Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
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>
While we didn't find Feliciana in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Feliciana.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Feliciana, with the one closest to Feliciana listed first.
- Water Valley
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Pilot Oak
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Pilot Oak is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilot Oak
- Fulton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Dukedom
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Dukedom is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dukedom
- Beelerton
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Beelerton is located in Hickman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beelerton
- Wingo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Pierce Station
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Pierce Station is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierce Station
- Stubblefield
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Stubblefield is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stubblefield
- Crutchfield
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Crutchfield is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crutchfield
- McConnell
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- McConnell is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McConnell
- Latham
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Latham is located in Weakley County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latham
- Cuba
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Cuba is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuba
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Pryorsburg
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Pryorsburg is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pryorsburg
- Harris
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Harris is located in Obion County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
- Lynnville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Lynnville is located in Graves County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynnville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Feliciana. See our List of 1890's Communities around Feliciana.
Newspapers Published in Feliciana ...
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 90 newspapers that have been published in the area around Feliciana.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Feliciana, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Feliciana.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Feliciana:
- Websites specific to Kentucky
- Pages specific to Graves County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Ballard County
- Calloway County
- Carlisle County
- Fulton County
- Hickman County
- Marshall County
- Gibson County
- Henry County
- Obion County
- Weakley County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Kentucky
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Feliciana) 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 Feliciana, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |