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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 Walnut Grove (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 Walnut Grove. 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.

Name Variations for Walnut Grove ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

Another variation: Walnutgrove.

  • A typical abbreviation for Walnut Grove: Walnut Grv.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Walnut Grove. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Walnut Grove.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Walnut Grove is located in Leake 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 Leake County: Attala, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Scott & Winston.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Walnut Grove ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Walnut Grove.

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 Walnut Grove - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Fuston Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Lindsey Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Walnut Grove Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • True Light Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Parker Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Rock Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Britt Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Hayes Creek Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Robinson Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Pilgrim Rest Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Elliott Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
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    • Damascus Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Standing Pine Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Hopewell 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 Walnut Grove had a population of 166 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Walnut Grove had a population of 1,658 people.

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

  • Tuscola
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Damascus
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Damascus is located in Scott County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damascus
  • Standing Pine
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Standing Pine is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Standing Pine
  • Cash
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Freeny
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Freeny is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeny
  • Harperville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Hays
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Hays is located in Scott County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hays
  • Sebastopol
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Free Trade
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Free Trade is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Free Trade
  • Lillian
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Lillian is located in Scott County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lillian
  • High Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Madden
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Madden is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madden
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Lena
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Hillsboro
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Hillsboro is located in Scott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro
    • Piketown
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Piketown is located in Scott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piketown

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

Newspapers Published in Walnut Grove ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Walnut Grove.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Walnut Grove, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Walnut Grove.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Walnut Grove:

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