A visit to the Deaton Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Deaton Cemetery ...
We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Deaton Cemetery:
31.9074, -90.4368
Note: The GPS location that we are using for the Deaton Cemetery can be traced back to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)<1>
The Deaton Cemetery is located in Copiah County<2>.
The county seat for Copiah County is located in Hazlehurst. Hazlehurst lies just to the southeast of the Deaton Cemetery .
Open a Google Map centered on the Deaton Cemetery.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 21 that are within 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> of the Deaton Cemetery.<4>
We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Deaton Cemetery, with the nearest first.
- Tabernacle Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- The Tabernacle Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tabernacle Cemetery
- Damascus Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- The Damascus Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damascus Cemetery
- Clear Springs Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Wade Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- The Wade Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wade Cemetery
- Gallman Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- The Gallman Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallman Cemetery
- Wiltshire - King Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hazlehurst Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- The Hazlehurst Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazlehurst Cemetery
- Alford Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- The Alford Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alford Cemetery
- Pisgah Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- The Pisgah Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pisgah Cemetery
- Smyrna Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- The Smyrna Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna Cemetery
- Antioch Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- The Antioch Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antioch Cemetery
- Bethesda Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- The Bethesda Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethesda Cemetery
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- New Zion Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- The New Zion Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Zion Cemetery
- Pleasant Ridge UMC Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- The Pleasant Ridge UMC Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge UMC Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Ridge UMC Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the west of Hazlehurst.
- The Pleasant Ridge UMC Cemetery has also been known as:
- Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2277119 <5>
- Little Rock Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- The Little Rock Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Rock Cemetery
- Crystal Springs Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Pine Bluff Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- The Pine Bluff Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Bluff Cemetery
- Ellington - Redus Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- The Ellington - Redus Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellington - Redus Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ellington - Redus Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<3> to the southwest of Hazlehurst.
- The Ellington - Redus Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ellington Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #59152 <5>
- Spring Hill Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- The Spring Hill Cemetery is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hill Cemetery
- Poplar Springs Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Old Crystal Springs Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 25 communities are within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> of the Deaton Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Deaton Cemetery, with the nearest first:
- Hazlehurst
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Glancy
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Glancy is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glancy
- Crystal Springs
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Martinsville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Martinsville is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinsville
- Sardis
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Sardis is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sardis
- Thompsonville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Thompsonville is located in Hinds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompsonville
- Bear Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bear Creek is located in Hinds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek
- Bowerton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Bowerton is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowerton
- Beauregard
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Beauregard is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beauregard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 322 people
- Hopewell
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Hopewell is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell
- Wesson
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Terry
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Georgetown
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Georgetown is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgetown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 268 people
- Alonzo
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Alonzo is located in Rankin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alonzo
- Carpenter
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Carpenter is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter
- Allen
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Allen is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen
- New Sight
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- New Sight is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Sight
- Utica
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Myles
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Myles is located in Copiah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myles
- Montgomery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Montgomery is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montgomery
- Adams
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Adams is located in Hinds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams
- Clear Branch
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Clear Branch is located in Rankin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Branch
- Whites
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Whites is located in Rankin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whites
- Midway
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Midway is located in Hinds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Palestine
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Palestine is located in Hinds County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palestine
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Deaton Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Copiah County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Deaton Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Beauregard
- Crystal Springs
- Hazlehurst
- Terry
- Terry lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the North Northeast (NNE) of the Deaton Cemetery.
- Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Terry.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terry
- Utica
- Wesson
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Deaton Cemetery:
- Pages specific to Mississippi:
- Pages specific to Copiah County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Deaton Cemetery:
- Referenced GNIS Record ...
- GNIS ID #669184 (Deaton Cemetery)
- Note: In 2021, GNIS record #669184 was archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website. In the past, the GNIS record contained the following information:
- BGN Class: cemetery
- County: Copiah
- Est. Elev: 128 (in feet)
- Topo Map Name: Gallman
- Location given for Deaton Cemetery:
- Lat: 31.907381 Lon: -90.43676
- Open a Google Map centered on the above location.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Copiah, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Deaton Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), be assured that it's not complete and we're still searching for cemeteries to add. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |