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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 Jacinto (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 Jacinto. 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 and hospitals 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.

Jacinto is located in Alcorn 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 Alcorn County: Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Hardeman (TN), Hardin (TN) & McNairy (TN).

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

  • Alcorn County     (The home county of Jacinto)
  • Itawamba County
  • Lee County
  • Prentiss County
  • Tippah County
  • Tishomingo County
  • Union County
  • Colbert County (AL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jacinto, with the one closest to Jacinto listed first.
    • Bishop
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Good Springs ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Good Springs is located in Colbert County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Springs
    • Caryton ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Caryton is located in Colbert County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caryton
    • Chickasaw ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Chickasaw is located in Colbert County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chickasaw
    • Riverton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Ingleton ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Ingleton is located in Colbert County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingleton
    • Crows Camp ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Crows Camp is located in Colbert County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crows Camp
    • Cherokee
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Doubleheads Village ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Doubleheads Village is located in Colbert County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doubleheads Village
    • Denton ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Denton is located in Colbert County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denton
  • Franklin County (AL)
  • Lauderdale County (AL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jacinto, with the one closest to Jacinto listed first.
    • Haddock ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Haddock is located in Lauderdale County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddock
    • Waterloo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Hardeman County (TN)
  • Hardin County (TN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jacinto, with the one closest to Jacinto listed first.
    • Nash Landing
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Slab Town ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Slab Town is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Town
    • Walnut Grove ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Walnut Grove is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
    • White Sulphur ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • White Sulphur is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Sulphur
    • Hamburg
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Shiloh
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Gibbs ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Gibbs is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibbs
    • Pyburn
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Bruton Branch
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Nixon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Nixon is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nixon
      • Estimated population in 2014: 718 people
    • Pittsburg Landing Ferry
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Pittsburg Landing Ferry is located in Hardin County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg Landing Ferry
      • Estimated population in 2014: 555 people
    • Lowryville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • McNairy County (TN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jacinto, with the one closest to Jacinto listed first.
    • Caffey
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Guys
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Michie
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Tulu
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Tulu is located in McNairy County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulu
      • Estimated population in 2014: 18,899 people
    • Chewalla
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Eastview
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Eastview is located in McNairy County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastview
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 702 people
    • Ramer
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Ramer is located in McNairy County (TN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 293 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ramer <1>
    • Stantonville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Falcon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Selmer
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Jacinto ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jacinto.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Jacinto, with the one closest to Jacinto 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 Jacinto had a population of 89 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Jacinto ...

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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jacinto.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Jacinto. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Jacinto and those printed in the larger area surrounding Jacinto.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4> of Jacinto.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy 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 information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Jacinto:

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 Jacinto, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Jacinto) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.