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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 Ituma (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 Ituma. 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.

Ituma is located in Holmes 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 Holmes County: Attala, Carroll, Humphreys, Leflore, Madison & Yazoo.

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

  • Holmes County     (The home county of Ituma)
  • Attala County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ituma, with the one closest to Ituma listed first.
    • Possumneck
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Auris ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Auris is located in Attala County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auris
    • Rocky Point
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Sallis
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Hesterville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Newport
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Newport is located in Attala County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
    • Zemuly
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Carroll County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ituma, with the one closest to Ituma listed first.
    • Coila
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Vaiden
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Carrollton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • North Carrollton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • North Carrollton is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Carrollton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
    • Teoc
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Avalon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Jefferson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Humphreys County
  • Leflore County
  • Montgomery County
  • Sunflower County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ituma, with the one closest to Ituma listed first.
    • Moorhead
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Inverness
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Baird
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Yazoo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ituma, with the one closest to Ituma listed first.
    • Eden
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Eden is located in Yazoo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 128 people
    • Fordyke
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Dover ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Dover is located in Yazoo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
    • Crump
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Evans
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Pearce ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Pearce is located in Yazoo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearce
    • Vaughan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Ituma ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ituma.

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

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

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

  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Wanlaw Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Broughman Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Olive Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Wadell Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Johnson Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Beall - Stigler Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Keirn Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Rose Bank Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Cunliff Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Shady Grove Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (371 more) ...
    • Horring Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jordan Bailey Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Dixon Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)

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, Ituma had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Acona
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Tchula
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Keirn
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Howard
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Howard is located in Holmes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
  • Lexington
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Cruger
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cruger is located in Holmes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cruger
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 330 people
  • Emory
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Emory is located in Holmes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emory
  • Mileston
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Marcella
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Marcella is located in Holmes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcella
  • Sidon
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Sidon is located in Leflore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 461 people
  • Good Hope
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Tolarville
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Eulogy
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Eulogy is located in Holmes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eulogy
    • Franklin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Franklin is located in Holmes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
    • Thornton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Thornton is located in Holmes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornton

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

Newspapers Published in Ituma ...

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 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ituma.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ituma, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ituma.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Ituma:

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