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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 Lux (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 Lux. 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 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.

Lux is located in Covington 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 Covington County: Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Simpson & Smith.

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

  • Covington County     (The home county of Lux)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lux, with the one closest to Lux listed first.
    • Sanford
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Seminary
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Kola
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Collins
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Williamsburg
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Hot Coffee
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Arbo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Mount Olive
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Mount Olive is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Olive
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 896 people
  • Forrest County
  • Jasper County
  • Jefferson Davis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lux, with the one closest to Lux listed first.
    • Melba
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Bassfield
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Bassfield is located in Jefferson Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bassfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
    • Prentiss
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Jones County
  • Lamar County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lux, with the one closest to Lux listed first.
    • West Hattiesburg
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • West Hattiesburg is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Hattiesburg
    • Sumrall
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Purvis
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Wells Town
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Wells Town is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells Town
    • Lumberton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Marion County
  • Perry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lux, with the one closest to Lux listed first.
    • New Augusta
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Richton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Wingate
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Smith County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lux, with the one closest to Lux listed first.
    • Taylorsville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Mize
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Lux ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lux.

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

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

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

  • Edmonson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Bryant Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Rawls Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Lott Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Lott Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Lott Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Lott Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Clinton Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Rawls Springs Baptist Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Eaton Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Bullock Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Shelton Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (505 more) ...
    • Hudson Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Shady Grove Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Callahan Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)

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>

While we didn't find Lux in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lux.

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

  • Eastabuchie
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Eastabuchie is located in Forrest County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastabuchie
  • Moselle
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Moselle is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moselle
  • Hattiesburg
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Moscos
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Moscos is located in Covington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscos
  • Ellisville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Ora
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Ora is located in Covington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ora
  • Williamsburg
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Soso
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Laurel
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Gitano
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Gitano is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gitano
  • Amy
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Bunker Hill
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Bunker Hill is located in Smith County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Mount Olive
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Mount Olive is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Olive
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 896 people
    • Taylorsville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Columbia
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Lux ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lux.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lux, 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 Lux.

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 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 Lux:

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 Lux, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lux) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.