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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 Taylors Store (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 Taylors Store. 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 Taylors Store ...

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.

While the name of this community is Taylors Store, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Taylors Store may originally have been Taylor's Store.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Taylors Store might be written as Taylor Store.

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

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Taylors Store is located in Nash 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 Nash County: Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Johnston, Vance, Wake, Warren & Wilson.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Taylors Store ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Taylors Store.

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 Taylors Store - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Vick Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Boseman Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Taylor Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Wood Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Leonard Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Arrington Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Hedgepeth Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Griffin Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Gay Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (175 more) ...
    • Harper Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Adams Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Griffin Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)

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

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

  • Dukes
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Hilliardston
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Hilliardston is located in Nash County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilliardston
  • Castalia
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Castalia is located in Nash County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castalia
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 273 people
  • Red Oak
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Red Oak is located in Nash County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Oak
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,492 people
  • Oakland
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Ita
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Ita is located in Halifax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ita
  • Nashville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Gold Rock
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Centerville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Justice
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Justice is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Justice
  • Hunts
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Hunts is located in Nash County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunts
  • Essex
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Essex is located in Halifax County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Taylors Store ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Taylors Store.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Taylors Store, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Taylors Store.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Taylors Store:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Taylors Store, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Taylors Store) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.