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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 Kaseyville (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 Kaseyville. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Kaseyville is located in Macon 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 Macon County: Adair, Chariton, Knox, Linn, Monroe, Randolph, Shelby & Sullivan.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Kaseyville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kaseyville.

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

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

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

  • Rice Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Johnson Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Union Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Barnhart Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Concord Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Fitzgerald Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Fawks Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hickory Grove Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Prairie Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Dodson Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (201 more) ...
    • Trinity Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Old Callao Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Locust Grove Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)

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 in 1895, Kaseyville had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Barryville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Barryville is located in Macon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barryville
  • Hubbard
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hubbard is located in Randolph County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbard
  • College Mound
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • College Mound is located in Macon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College Mound
  • Lagonda
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Lagonda is located in Chariton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lagonda
  • Darksville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Ardmore
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Wien
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Wien is located in Chariton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wien
  • Bynumville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Bynumville is located in Chariton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bynumville
  • Thomas Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Chariton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Chariton is located in Macon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chariton
  • Prairie Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Prairie Hill is located in Chariton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Hill
  • Hamden
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Hamden is located in Chariton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamden
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Kaseyville ...

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 116 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kaseyville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kaseyville, 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 Kaseyville.

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 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 Kaseyville:

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 Kaseyville, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Kaseyville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.