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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 Tekonsha (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 Tekonsha. 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 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.

Tekonsha is located in Calhoun County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Calhoun County: Barry, Branch, Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo & Saint Joseph.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Tekonsha ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tekonsha.

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 Tekonsha - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Riverside Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • McFadden Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Windfall Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • West Clarendon Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • West Prairie Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Clarks Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Burlington Twp. Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Mt. Hope Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Clarendon Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
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    • Boot Hill Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Whig Center Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Butler Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Tekonsha had a population of 570 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Tekonsha had a population of 718 people.

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

  • Girard
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Burlington
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Burlington is located in Calhoun County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burlington
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
  • Hodunk
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Butler
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Butler is located in Branch County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler
  • Clarendon
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Clarendon is located in Calhoun County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarendon
  • Union City
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • South Butler
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • South Butler is located in Branch County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Butler
  • Homer
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Eckford
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Eckford is located in Calhoun County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eckford
  • Coldwater
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Quincy
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Marshall
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
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    • Ceresco
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Ceresco is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceresco
    • Litchfield
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Condit
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Condit is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Condit

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Tekonsha ...

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 150 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tekonsha.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Tekonsha. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Tekonsha and those printed in the larger area surrounding Tekonsha.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> of Tekonsha.

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 Tekonsha:

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 Tekonsha, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Tekonsha) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.