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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 Clayton (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 Clayton. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Clayton is located in Pushmataha 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 Pushmataha County: Atoka, Choctaw, Latimer, Le Flore, McCurtain & Pittsburg.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Clayton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clayton.

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 Clayton covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Clayton Old Town Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clayton Old Town Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clayton Old Town Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • A.L. Stephens Memorial Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the A.L. Stephens Memorial Park
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the A.L. Stephens Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Anderson Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anderson Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Anderson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Sardis Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sardis Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sardis Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Town - Tuskahoma Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Town - Tuskahoma Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Town - Tuskahoma Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Stanley Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stanley Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stanley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cupco Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cupco Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cupco Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cole Spur Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cole Spur Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cole Spur Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hokit Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hokit Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hokit Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #98656 <4>
  • Borden Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Borden Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Borden Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Black Fork Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Black Fork Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Black Fork Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Nashoba Indian Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nashoba Indian Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Nashoba Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Trowbridge Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trowbridge Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Trowbridge Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #99674 <4>
    • Kiamichi Pioneer Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kiamichi Pioneer Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kiamichi Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • King Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Clayton ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Clayton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Clayton, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Clayton.

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 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 Clayton:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Clayton. 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Clayton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Clayton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.5882, Longitude: -95.3575    









 

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