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 Marshville (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 Marshville. 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 doctors and 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.
Marshville is located in Saint Lawrence County.
To see how the shape of New York's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Saint Lawrence County: Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson & Lewis.
Below are the counties that are near Marshville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Marshville:
- Saint Lawrence County (The home county of Marshville)
- The following are listed by their distance from Marshville, with the one closest to Marshville listed first.
- Hermon
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Russell
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- De Kalb Junction
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Palmerville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Palmerville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmerville
- De Kalb
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- De Kalb is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Kalb
- West Pierrepont
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- West Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pierrepont
- Edwards
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Edwards is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
- Estimated population in 2012: 433 people
- Richville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Clare
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Clare is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clare
- Canton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Canton is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,482 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canton <1>
- Rensselaer Falls
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Degrasse
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Degrasse is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degrasse
- Jefferson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Marshville, with the one closest to Marshville listed first.
- Oxbow
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Antwerp
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Natural Bridge
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Redwood
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Lewis County
- The following are listed by their distance from Marshville, with the one closest to Marshville listed first.
- Harrisville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Lake Bonaparte
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Lake Bonaparte is located in Lewis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Bonaparte
- Jerden Falls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Jerden Falls is located in Lewis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerden Falls
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Marshville, see our County-by-County Page for Marshville.
Cemeteries Near Marshville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Marshville.
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 Marshville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Marshville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Marshville, with the one closest to Marshville listed first.
- West Hermon Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- St. Henrys Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- East DeKalb Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Union Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- North Russell Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jerusalem Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Old DeKalb Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Maple Grove Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- King Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Clark Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Wayside Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Fairview Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Continue List (137 more) ...
- Riverside Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Kendrew Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fairview Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 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>
While we didn't find Marshville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Marshville.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Marshville, with the one closest to Marshville listed first.
- Hermon
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Russell
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- De Kalb Junction
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Bigelow
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Bigelow is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bigelow
- North Russell
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- North Russell is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Russell
- De Kalb
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- De Kalb is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Kalb
- South Russell
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Russell is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Russell
- Richville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Edwards
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Edwards is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
- Estimated population in 2012: 433 people
- West Pierrepont
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- West Pierrepont is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pierrepont
- Clare
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Clare is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clare
- Talcville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Talcville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talcville
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Degrasse
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Degrasse is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degrasse
- Rensselaer Falls
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Canton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Canton is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,482 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canton <1>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Marshville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Marshville.
Newspapers Published in Marshville ...
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 Marshville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Marshville, 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 Marshville.
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 Marshville:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Saint Lawrence County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Jefferson County
- Lewis County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New York
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 Marshville, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Marshville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |