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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 Money (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 Money. 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.

Money is located in Leflore 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 Leflore County: Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Sunflower & Tallahatchie.

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

  • Leflore County     (The home county of Money)
  • Bolivar County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Money, with the one closest to Money listed first.
    • Boyle
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Cleveland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Renova
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Renova is located in Bolivar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Renova
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 761 people
  • Carroll County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Money, with the one closest to Money listed first.
    • Avalon
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Teoc
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jefferson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Carrollton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • North Carrollton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • North Carrollton is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Carrollton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
    • Coila
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Grenada County
  • Holmes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Money, with the one closest to Money listed first.
    • Cruger
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Cruger is located in Holmes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cruger
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 330 people
    • Keirn
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Wyatt
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Acona
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Ituma
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Montgomery County
  • Quitman County
  • Sunflower County
  • Tallahatchie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Money, with the one closest to Money listed first.
    • Glendora
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Swan Lake
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Leverett
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Albin
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Paynes
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Webb
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Rosebloom
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sumner
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Charleston
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Crevi ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Crevi is located in Tallahatchie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crevi
    • Tutwiler
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Yalobusha County

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

Cemeteries Near Money ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Money.

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

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

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

  • St. Mark Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Bernander Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Lanes Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Sweet Home Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Eastmoney Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Majet Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Neals Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Shiloh Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Eagle Plantation Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Little Zion MB Church Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (267 more) ...
    • Loggins Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Bethel Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Cypress Grove Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Shellmound
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Sunnyside
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Rixwood
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Rixwood is located in Leflore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rixwood
  • Minter City
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Greenwood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Leflore
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Leflore is located in Grenada County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leflore
  • McNutt
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Fort Loring
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Teoc
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Parsons
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Parsons is located in Grenada County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parsons
  • Itta Bena
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Runnymede
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Runnymede is located in Leflore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Runnymede
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Black Bayou
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Black Bayou is located in Tallahatchie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Bayou
    • Rising Sun
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Rising Sun is located in Leflore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rising Sun
    • Glendora
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Money ...

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 53 newspapers that have been published in the area around Money.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Money, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Money.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Money:

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>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- Money) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Money, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.