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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 Sweatman (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 Sweatman. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Sweatman is located in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County: Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Grenada & Webster.

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

  • Montgomery County     (The home county of Sweatman)
  • Attala County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweatman, with the one closest to Sweatman listed first.
    • Auris ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Auris is located in Attala County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auris
    • Langley ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Langley is located in Attala County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langley
  • Calhoun County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweatman, with the one closest to Sweatman listed first.
    • Slate Springs
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Slate Springs is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Springs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
    • Slate Spring
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Big Creek
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Big Creek is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Creek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 146 people
    • Calhoun City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Benela
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Derma
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Pittsboro
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Pittsboro is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsboro
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 188 people
    • Bruce
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Bruce is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruce
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,798 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bruce <1>
    • Vardaman
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Loyd
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Carroll County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweatman, with the one closest to Sweatman listed first.
    • Jefferson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Carrollton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • North Carrollton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • North Carrollton is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Carrollton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
    • Vaiden
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Teoc
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Coila
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Avalon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Choctaw County
  • Grenada County
  • Oktibbeha County
    • Maben
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Tallahatchie County
  • Webster County
  • Yalobusha County

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

Cemeteries Near Sweatman ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sweatman.

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

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

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

  • Center Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Marshill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Taylor Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Red Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Jordans Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Shiloh Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Dunn Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Spring Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • New Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Parker Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (423 more) ...
    • Cox & Carver Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Harmony Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Providence Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)

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, Sweatman had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Misterton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Misterton is located in Grenada County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Misterton
  • Lodi
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lodi is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi
  • Minerva
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Duck Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Eskridge
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Cadaretta
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Cadaretta is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadaretta
  • Elliott
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Sawyer
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sawyer is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawyer
  • Sabougla
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Sabougla is located in Calhoun County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabougla
  • Embry
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Embry is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Embry
  • Winona
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Kilmichael
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Slate Spring
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Stewart
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Stewart is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stewart
    • Bellefontaine
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Bellefontaine is located in Webster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellefontaine

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

Newspapers Published in Sweatman ...

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 65 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sweatman.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sweatman, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sweatman.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Sweatman:

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 Sweatman, 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- Sweatman) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.