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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 Luke Chute (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 Luke Chute. 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.

Luke Chute is located in Washington County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Washington County: Athens, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Pleasants (WV), Tyler (WV) & Wood (WV).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Luke Chute ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Luke Chute.

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 Luke Chute - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Milnor Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Blackemar Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Oakland Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Center Memorial Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Mt. Olivet Methodist Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Greenman Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Morris Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Beckett Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Waterford Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Fairview Methodist Protestant Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • DeLong Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
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    • Olney Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Brick Church Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Ellis Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Luke Chute had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Swift
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Swift is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift
  • Roxbury
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Roxbury is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury
  • Hayward
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hayward is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
  • Relief
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Relief is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relief
  • Beckett
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Beckett is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckett
  • Stockport
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Wolf Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Waterford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Beverly
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Center Bend
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Center Bend is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Bend
  • Mill Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Mill Grove is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Grove
  • Hooksburg
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Hooksburg is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooksburg
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We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Luke Chute. See our List of 1890's Communities around Luke Chute.

Newspapers Published in Luke Chute ...

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 66 newspapers that have been published in the area around Luke Chute.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Luke Chute, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Luke Chute.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Luke Chute:

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 Luke Chute, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Luke Chute) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.