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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 Corrona (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 Corrona. 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.

Corrona is located in Lee County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lee County: Chickasaw, Itawamba, Monroe, Pontotoc, Prentiss & Union.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Corrona ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Corrona.

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

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

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

  • Camp Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • House Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Birmingham Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • McWhorter Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Thompson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Jones Memorial Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Huckleberry Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Old Bethel Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Gaston Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Bethany Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Brices Crossroads National Battlefield Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (496 more) ...
    • Zion Hill Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • New Hope Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Ellistown Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)

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 Corrona had a population of 17 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Bethany
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bethany is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethany
  • Ellistown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Birmingham
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Graham
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Guntown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Blue Springs
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Macedonia
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Macedonia is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macedonia
  • Saltillo
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Sherman
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Baldwyn
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Geeville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Molino
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Keownville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Keownville is located in Union County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keownville
    • Wallerville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Wallerville is located in Union County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallerville
    • Baker
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Baker is located in Union County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker

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

Newspapers Published in Corrona ...

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 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Corrona.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Corrona, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Corrona.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Corrona:

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 Corrona, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Corrona) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.