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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 Texas (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 Texas. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Texas is located in Stone 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 Stone County: Forrest, George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River & Perry.

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

  • Stone County     (The home county of Texas)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Texas, with the one closest to Texas listed first.
    • Smith Town
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Smith Town is located in Stone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Town
    • Wiggins
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • McHenry
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • McHenry is located in Stone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McHenry
  • Forrest County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Texas, with the one closest to Texas listed first.
    • Carnes
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Carnes is located in Forrest County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnes
    • Brooklyn
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • McLaurin
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • McLaurin is located in Forrest County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McLaurin
    • Hattiesburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Greene County
    • McLain
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • McLain is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McLain
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 430 people
  • Hancock County
    • Necaise
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Necaise is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Necaise
  • Harrison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Texas, with the one closest to Texas listed first.
    • Howison
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Howison is located in Harrison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howison
    • Saucier
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Wortham
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Wortham is located in Harrison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wortham
    • Lyman
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Lyman is located in Harrison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyman
  • Lamar County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Texas, with the one closest to Texas listed first.
    • Lumberton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Wells Town
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Wells Town is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells Town
    • Purvis
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • West Hattiesburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • West Hattiesburg is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Hattiesburg
  • Marion County
    • Pinebur
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Pinebur is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinebur
  • Pearl River County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Texas, with the one closest to Texas listed first.
    • Hillsdale
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Hillsdale is located in Pearl River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsdale
    • Juniper Grove
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Juniper Grove is located in Pearl River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniper Grove
    • Poplarville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Perry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Texas, with the one closest to Texas listed first.
    • New Augusta
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Wingate
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Wingate is located in Perry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wingate
    • Beaumont
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Beaumont is located in Perry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaumont
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 894 people

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

Cemeteries Near Texas ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Texas.

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

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

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

  • Fairley Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Lott Smith Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Eureka Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Lancaster Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Shadeville Park Memorial Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Bounds Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Daugdrill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Lee Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Seals Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Herrington Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Price Memorial Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Davis Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (236 more) ...
    • Lee Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Smith Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Davis Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)

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 Texas in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Texas.

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

  • Hillsdale
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Hillsdale is located in Pearl River County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsdale
  • Poplarville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Orvisburg
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Orvisburg is located in Pearl River County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orvisburg
  • Airey
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Airey is located in Harrison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airey
  • Leaf
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Leaf is located in Greene County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leaf

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

Newspapers Published in Texas ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Texas.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Texas, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Texas.

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 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 Texas:

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