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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 Wingate (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 Wingate. 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 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.

Wingate is located in Perry 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 Perry County: Forrest, George, Greene, Jones, Stone & Wayne.

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

  • Perry County     (The home county of Wingate)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wingate, with the one closest to Wingate listed first.
    • New Augusta
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Beaumont
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Beaumont is located in Perry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaumont
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 894 people
    • Richton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Covington County
  • Forrest County
  • George County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wingate, with the one closest to Wingate listed first.
    • Bexley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Lucedale
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Greene County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wingate, with the one closest to Wingate listed first.
    • McLain
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • McLain is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McLain
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 430 people
    • Avera
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bothwell
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Hillman
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Carson City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Carson City is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson City
    • Clark
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Leakesville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Jones County
  • Lamar County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wingate, with the one closest to Wingate listed first.
    • West Hattiesburg
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • West Hattiesburg is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Hattiesburg
    • Purvis
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Lumberton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Wells Town
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Wells Town is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells Town
  • Stone County
    • Wiggins
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Wayne County

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

Cemeteries Near Wingate ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wingate.

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

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

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

  • New Augusta Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Hinton Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Carter Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • McSwain Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Sweetwater Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Hinton Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Stevens Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Denham Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Hinton Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Belton Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Hinton Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Hollimon Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (282 more) ...
    • Courtney Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Ferguson Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • McKenzie Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)

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

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

  • Avera
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Leaf
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Leaf is located in Greene County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leaf
  • Hattiesburg
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Henderson
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Henderson is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henderson
  • Eastabuchie
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Eastabuchie is located in Forrest County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastabuchie
  • Leakesville
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Moselle
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Moselle is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moselle
  • Adamsville ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Adamsville is located in Greene County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adamsville

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

Newspapers Published in Wingate ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wingate.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wingate, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wingate.

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 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 Wingate:

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