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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 Brewer (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 Brewer. 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.

Brewer is located in Pittsburg County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pittsburg County: Atoka, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, McIntosh & Pushmataha.

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

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Brewer)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brewer, with the one closest to Brewer listed first.
    • Savanna
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Chambers
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • Kiowa
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Kiowa is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiowa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kiowa <1>
    • Pittsburg
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Blanco
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Haywood
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Haywood is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haywood
    • McAlester
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Arch
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Alderson
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Krebs
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Krebs is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krebs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,000 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Krebs <1>
    • Ashland
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Ashland is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
    • Haileyville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Bug Tussle
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
  • Atoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brewer, with the one closest to Brewer listed first.
    • Wardville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Daisy
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Stringtown
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Coal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brewer, with the one closest to Brewer listed first.
    • Coalgate
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Phillips
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Phillips is located in Coal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 130 people
    • Centrahoma
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hughes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brewer, with the one closest to Brewer listed first.
    • Stuart
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Non
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Non is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Non
    • Calvin
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Lamar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Gerty
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Gerty is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerty
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
    • Horntown
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Horntown is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horntown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
    • Atwood
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Citra
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Citra is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Citra
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brewer, with the one closest to Brewer listed first.
    • Gowen
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Degnan
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
  • McIntosh County
    • Hanna
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brewer, with the one closest to Brewer listed first.
    • Adel
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel
    • Stanley
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley

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

Cemeteries Near Brewer ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brewer.

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 Brewer - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Savanna Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Christian Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Pittsburg Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Blanco Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Memorial Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Brushy Indian Baptist Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Haile Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Hickory Grove Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Ward Springs Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (112 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Brewer ...

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 56 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brewer.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Brewer, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Brewer.

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 helpful 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 Brewer:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Brewer) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.