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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 Wyatt (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 Wyatt. 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.

Wyatt is located in Holmes 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 Holmes County: Attala, Carroll, Humphreys, Leflore, Madison & Yazoo.

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

  • Holmes County     (The home county of Wyatt)
  • Attala County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wyatt, with the one closest to Wyatt listed first.
    • Possumneck
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Auris ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Auris is located in Attala County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auris
    • Rocky Point
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Sallis
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Carroll County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wyatt, with the one closest to Wyatt listed first.
    • Coila
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Teoc
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Carrollton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • North Carrollton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • North Carrollton is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Carrollton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
    • Vaiden
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Avalon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Humphreys County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wyatt, with the one closest to Wyatt listed first.
    • Jaketown
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Belzoni
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Silver City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Silver City is located in Humphreys County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 279 people
    • Isola
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Gooden Lake
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Lake City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Louise
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Louise is located in Humphreys County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louise
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 166 people
  • Leflore County
  • Sunflower County
  • Washington County
  • Yazoo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wyatt, with the one closest to Wyatt listed first.
    • Eden
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Eden is located in Yazoo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 128 people
    • Dover ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Dover is located in Yazoo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
    • Crump
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Fordyke
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Pearce ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Pearce is located in Yazoo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearce
    • Evans
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Yazoo City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Jonestown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Wyatt ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wyatt.

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

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

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

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.<3>

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

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

  • Keirn
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Tchula
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Cruger
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Cruger is located in Holmes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cruger
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 330 people
  • Ituma
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Marcella
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Marcella is located in Holmes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcella
  • Howard
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Howard is located in Holmes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
  • Mileston
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Good Hope
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Sheppardtown
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Sheppardtown is located in Leflore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheppardtown
  • Sidon
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Sidon is located in Leflore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 461 people
  • Thornton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Thornton is located in Holmes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornton
  • Acona
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Wyatt ...

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 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wyatt.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wyatt, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wyatt.

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 helpful 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 Wyatt:

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>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.
<3>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 Wyatt, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wyatt) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.