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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 Haworth (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 Haworth. 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 northeast 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 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.

Haworth is located in McCurtain 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 McCurtain County: Little River (AR), Polk (AR), Sevier (AR), Choctaw, Le Flore, Pushmataha, Bowie (TX) & Red River (TX).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Haworth ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Haworth.

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

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

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

  • Haworth Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Thomas Chapel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Bokhoma Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Redland Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Harris Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Philadelphia Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Harris Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Denison Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Byrms Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Manning Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Cooper Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Eastport Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (124 more) ...

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.<4>

While we didn't find Haworth in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Haworth.

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

  • Cerrogordo
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Rocky Comfort
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Rocky Comfort is located in Little River County (AR)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Comfort
  • English
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Chapel Hill
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Chapel Hill is located in Sevier County (AR)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill
  • Norwoodville
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Oak Grove
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Oak Grove is located in Bowie County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Albion
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Woodstock
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Woodstock is located in Bowie County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock
  • Madras
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Madras is located in Red River County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madras
  • Annona
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • De Kalb
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Malta
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Malta is located in Bowie County (TX)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Clarksville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Lydia
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Lydia is located in Red River County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lydia
    • Lockesburg
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Lockesburg is located in Sevier County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockesburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 710 people

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

Newspapers Published in Haworth ...

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 62 newspapers that have been published in the area around Haworth.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Haworth, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Haworth.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Haworth:

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Haworth) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Haworth, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.