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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 Purdy Corners (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 Purdy Corners. 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 Purdy Corners ...

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.

Another variation: Mule Town.

  • A typical abbreviation for Purdy Corners: Purdy Cors.

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

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Purdy Corners is located in Scioto 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 Scioto County: Greenup (KY), Lewis (KY), Adams, Jackson, Lawrence & Pike.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Purdy Corners ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Purdy Corners.

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 Purdy Corners - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Squire Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Old Bennett Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Bennett Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Shuter Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Rogers Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Gregory Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Glendale Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Harrison Furnace Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Bennett Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Wheeler Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Knore Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Martin Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
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    • Colegrove Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Titus Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • White Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)

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

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

  • Harrison Mills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Wallace Mills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Wallace Mills is located in Scioto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace Mills
  • Massie ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Massie is located in Scioto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massie
  • Gephart
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Gephart is located in Scioto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gephart
  • Edmunds Switch
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Edmunds Switch is located in Scioto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmunds Switch
  • Sciotoville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Slocum
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Scioto Furnace
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Lucasville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Rushtown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Rushtown is located in Scioto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushtown
  • New Boston
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • South Webster
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
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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 Purdy Corners. See our List of 1890's Communities around Purdy Corners.

Newspapers Published in Purdy Corners ...

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 89 newspapers that have been published in the area around Purdy Corners.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Purdy Corners, 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 Purdy Corners.

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 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 Purdy Corners:

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 Purdy Corners, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Purdy Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.