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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 Jeddo (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 Jeddo. 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 northeast 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 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.

Jeddo is located in Knox County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Knox County: Adair, Clark, Lewis, Macon, Scotland & Shelby.

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

  • Knox County     (The home county of Jeddo)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jeddo, with the one closest to Jeddo listed first.
    • Knox City
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Forest Springs
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Newark
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Colony
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Hedge City
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Plevna
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Plevna is located in Knox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plevna
    • Edina
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Novelty
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Baring
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Rutledge
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hurdland
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Hurdland is located in Knox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurdland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 153 people
    • Greensburg
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Adair County
  • Clark County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jeddo, with the one closest to Jeddo listed first.
    • Neeper
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Wyaconda
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Saint Patrick
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Patrick is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Patrick
    • Luray
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Luray is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luray
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
    • Kahoka
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Medill
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Clark City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Clark City is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark City
    • Wayland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Wayland is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
    • Chambersburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Lewis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jeddo, with the one closest to Jeddo listed first.
    • La Belle
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Lewistown
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • New Court Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • New Court Village is located in Lewis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Court Village
    • Argola
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Monticello
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Monticello is located in Lewis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 92 people
    • Williamstown
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Williamstown is located in Lewis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamstown
    • Ewing
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Sellers
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Gilead
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Durham
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Weber
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Maywood
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Macon County
  • Marion County
  • Scotland County
  • Shelby County
  • Adams County (IL)

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

Cemeteries Near Jeddo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jeddo.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Jeddo, with the one closest to Jeddo 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>

While we didn't find Jeddo in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Jeddo.

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

  • La Belle
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Knox City
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Forest Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Newark
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Lewistown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Deer Ridge
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Deer Ridge is located in Lewis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Ridge
  • Hedge City
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Plevna
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Plevna is located in Knox County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plevna
  • Steffenville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Steffenville is located in Lewis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steffenville
  • Colony
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Elgin
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Elgin is located in Shelby County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
  • Argola
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Edina
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Tolona
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Tolona is located in Lewis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolona
    • Novelty
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Jeddo ...

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 109 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jeddo.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jeddo, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Jeddo.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Jeddo:

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Jeddo) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Jeddo, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.