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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 Bengal (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 Bengal. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Bengal is located in Latimer County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Latimer County: Haskell, Le Flore, Pittsburg & Pushmataha.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Bengal ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bengal.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Peachland Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Salonia Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salonia Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salonia Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Talihina Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Talihina Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Talihina Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rock Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rock Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Le Flore Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Brown's Prairie Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brown's Prairie Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brown's Prairie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • McIntosh Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McIntosh Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McIntosh Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Red Oak Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Oak Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Oak Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Baldwin Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Laura Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Potts Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Armstrong Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Armstrong Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Armstrong Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Albion Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Albion Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Albion Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Rock Creek Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rock Creek Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rock Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Noah Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Noah Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Noah Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Bengal ...

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 60 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bengal.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bengal, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bengal.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Bengal:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bengal. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/

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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Bengal) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bengal. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8330, Longitude: -95.0619    









 

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