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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 Lamberson (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 Lamberson. 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 and doctors 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.

Lamberson is located in Le Flore 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 Le Flore County: Polk (AR), Scott (AR), Sebastian (AR), Haskell, Latimer, McCurtain, Pushmataha & Sequoyah.

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

  • Le Flore County     (The home county of Lamberson)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lamberson, with the one closest to Lamberson listed first.
    • Talihina
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Le Flore
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Le Flore is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Le Flore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
    • Whitesboro
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Summerfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Fanshawe
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Muse
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Conser
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Conser is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conser
    • Honobia
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Wister
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Ludlow
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Ludlow is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
    • Hodgen
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Hodgen is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodgen
      • Former name for Hodgen:
      • Hodgens
      • Hodgen has also been known as:
      • Hodgens Station
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hodgen <1>
    • Howe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Howe is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howe
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 788 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Howe <1>
    • Big Cedar
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Big Cedar is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Cedar
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lamberson, with the one closest to Lamberson listed first.
    • Lequire
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • McCurtain
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Sans Bois
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Sans Bois is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sans Bois
    • Kinta
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lamberson, with the one closest to Lamberson listed first.
    • Bengal
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Bengal is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal
    • Red Oak
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Panola
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Damon
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Wilburton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Degnan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Gowen
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • McCurtain County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lamberson, with the one closest to Lamberson listed first.
    • Pickens
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Battiest
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Smithville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Pittsburg County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lamberson, with the one closest to Lamberson listed first.
    • Quinton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Hartshorne
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lamberson, with the one closest to Lamberson listed first.
    • Albion
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Tuskahoma
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Nolia
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Nolia is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolia
    • Clayton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Nashoba
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Lamberson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lamberson.

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

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

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

  • Talihina Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • McIntosh Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Peachland Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Salonia Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Le Flore Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Bohannon Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Armstrong Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Albion Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Myers Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Heath Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Brown's Prairie Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (81 more) ...
    • Baldwin Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Laura Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Noah 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 Lamberson. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lamberson.

Newspapers Published in Lamberson ...

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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lamberson.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lamberson, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lamberson.

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 Lamberson:

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Lamberson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.