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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 Everetts (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 Everetts. 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 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.

Everetts is located in Martin County.

To see how the shape of North Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Martin County: Beaufort, Bertie, Edgecombe, Halifax, Pitt & Washington.

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

  • Martin County     (The home county of Everetts)
  • Beaufort County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everetts, with the one closest to Everetts listed first.
    • Rosedale
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Washington
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Chocowinity
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Washington Park
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Washington Park is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 429 people
    • Pinetown
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Walla Watta
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • River Road
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • River Road is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Road
    • Gaylord
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Gaylord is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaylord
    • Whitepost
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Bertie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everetts, with the one closest to Everetts listed first.
    • Drew
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Windsor
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Lewiston Woodville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Lewiston Woodville is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewiston Woodville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 473 people
    • Askewville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Askewville is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Askewville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
    • Kelford
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Kelford is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 217 people
    • Roxobel
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Merry Hill
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Merry Hill is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merry Hill
    • Hexlena
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Aulander
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Aulander is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aulander
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 763 people
    • Ashland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Avoca
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Edenhouse
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Edgecombe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everetts, with the one closest to Everetts listed first.
    • Coakley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Conetoe
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Speed
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Princeville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Fairview
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Fairview is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
    • Hope Lodge
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Tarboro
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Lawrence
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Summerfield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Summerfield is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerfield
    • Henrietta
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Henrietta is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henrietta
    • Leggett
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Cobb Town
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Cobb Town is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobb Town
  • Halifax County
  • Hertford County
  • Northampton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everetts, with the one closest to Everetts listed first.
    • Eagletown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Rich Square
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Pitt County
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everetts, with the one closest to Everetts listed first.
    • Plymouth
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Monticello ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Monticello is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
    • Pine Ridge
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Westover
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Wenona
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Everetts ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Everetts.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Everetts, with the one closest to Everetts 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Everetts had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Everetts had a population of 138 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Everetts ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Everetts.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Everetts, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Everetts.

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 Everetts:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Everetts) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Everetts, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.