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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 Tedieville (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 Tedieville. 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 and hospitals 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.

Tedieville is located in Pettis 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 Pettis County: Benton, Cooper, Henry, Johnson, Lafayette, Morgan & Saline.

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

  • Pettis County     (The home county of Tedieville)
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tedieville, with the one closest to Tedieville listed first.
    • Mora
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Ionia
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Ionia is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ionia
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 88 people
  • Carroll County
  • Cooper County
  • Henry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tedieville, with the one closest to Tedieville listed first.
    • Windsor
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bowen
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Bowen is located in Henry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowen
  • Howard County
  • Johnson County
  • Lafayette County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tedieville, with the one closest to Tedieville listed first.
    • Emma
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Concordia
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Alma
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Alma is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 385 people
    • Aullville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Aullville is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aullville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 102 people
    • Corder
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Waverly
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Waverly is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 846 people
    • Higginsville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Hodge
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Page City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Page City is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page City
    • Dover
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Morgan County
  • Saline County

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

Cemeteries Near Tedieville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tedieville.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tedieville, with the one closest to Tedieville 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Tedieville had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Houstonia
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Wanamaker ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Wanamaker is located in Saline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wanamaker
  • Marshall Junction
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Marshall Junction is located in Saline County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall Junction
  • Hughesville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Hughesville is located in Pettis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hughesville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 190 people
  • Longwood
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Herndon
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Blue Lick
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Cretcher
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Sweet Springs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Postal
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Postal is located in Pettis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Postal
  • Stokley
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Stokley is located in Pettis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokley
  • Dresden
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Dresden is located in Pettis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dresden
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Tedieville ...

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 78 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tedieville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tedieville, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tedieville.

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 Tedieville:

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>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 Tedieville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Tedieville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.