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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 Cabaniss (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 Cabaniss. 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.

Cabaniss 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 Cabaniss. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cabaniss:

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Cabaniss)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabaniss, with the one closest to Cabaniss listed first.
    • Haywood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Haywood is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haywood
    • Ashland
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Ashland is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
    • Chambers
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • Savanna
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • McAlester
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Kiowa
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • 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>
    • Krebs
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • 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>
    • Pittsburg
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Alderson
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Bug Tussle
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Blanco
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Indianola
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Arch
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
  • Atoka County
  • Coal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabaniss, with the one closest to Cabaniss listed first.
    • Centrahoma
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Coalgate
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Hughes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabaniss, with the one closest to Cabaniss listed first.
    • Stuart
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Lamar
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Calvin
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Horntown
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Horntown is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horntown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
    • Gerty
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Gerty is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerty
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
    • Non
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Non is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Non
    • Atwood
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Dustin
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Dustin is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
    • Citra
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Citra is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Citra
    • Holdenville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Wetumka
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Yeager
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Yeager is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 73 people
    • Spaulding
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Spaulding is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spaulding
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 171 people
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabaniss, with the one closest to Cabaniss listed first.
    • Hanna
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Vivian
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Vivian is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
  • Okfuskee County
    • Weleetka
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Pontotoc County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabaniss, with the one closest to Cabaniss listed first.
    • Allen
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Lula
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Lula is located in Pontotoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lula
  • Seminole County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabaniss, with the one closest to Cabaniss listed first.
    • Sasakwa
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Wewoka
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Cabaniss ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cabaniss.

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

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

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

  • White Chimney Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Arpelar Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Pryor Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Hickory Grove Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Lone Grove Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Memorial Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Blue Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Ward Springs Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Christian Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Hughlow Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Hill Top Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (140 more) ...
    • Tannehill Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Spring Creek Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Bohannon Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Cabaniss ...

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 81 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cabaniss.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Cabaniss:

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