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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 Letitia (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 Letitia. 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 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.

Letitia is located in Comanche 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 Comanche County: Caddo, Cotton, Grady, Kiowa, Stephens & Tillman.

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

  • Comanche County     (The home county of Letitia)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Letitia, with the one closest to Letitia listed first.
    • Pumpkin Center ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Pumpkin Center is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
    • Bethel
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Bethel is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel
    • Lawton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Lawton is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 93,164 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lawton <1>
    • Geronimo
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sterling
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Fort Sill
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Artillery Village
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Artillery Village is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artillery Village
    • Elgin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Elgin is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,236 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elgin <1>
    • Richards Spur ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Richards Spur is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richards Spur
    • Fletcher
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Lakeside Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Lakeside Village is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside Village
    • Medicine Park
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Caddo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Letitia, with the one closest to Letitia listed first.
    • Cyril
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Apache
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Cement
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Cotton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Letitia, with the one closest to Letitia listed first.
    • Hulen
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Hulen is located in Cotton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hulen
    • Walters
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Walters is located in Cotton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walters
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,357 people
      • Former name for Walters:
      • Walter
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walters <1>
    • Temple
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Cookietown
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Cookietown is located in Cotton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cookietown
    • Taylor
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Taylor is located in Cotton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
  • Grady County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Letitia, with the one closest to Letitia listed first.
    • Rush Springs
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Agawam
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Agawam is located in Grady County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agawam
    • Cox City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Cox City is located in Grady County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cox City
    • East Ninnekah
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • East Ninnekah is located in Grady County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Ninnekah
    • Ninnekah
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Norge
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Norge is located in Grady County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 154 people
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Letitia, with the one closest to Letitia listed first.
    • Hastings
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Addington
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Waurika
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Stephens County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Letitia, with the one closest to Letitia listed first.
    • Central High
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Central High is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central High
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,171 people
    • Oil City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Oil City is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil City
    • Empire City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Empire City is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 889 people
    • Gas City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Gas City is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gas City
    • Duncan
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Duncan is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 22,259 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Duncan <1>
    • Marlow
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Meridian
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Meridian is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meridian
    • Comanche
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Bray
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Bray is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bray
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,178 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bray <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Letitia ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Letitia.

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

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

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

  • Letitia Community Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Denton Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Flower Mound Community Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Allendale Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Devine Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Comanche Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Shakelford Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shakelford Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Shakelford Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the northeast of Walters.
  • Sterling Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Chief Chihuahua Apache Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Indian Agency Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Highland Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Lawton.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #98639 <3>
  • Continue List   (77 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 Letitia in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Letitia.

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

Newspapers Published in Letitia ...

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 164 newspapers that have been published in the area around Letitia.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Letitia:

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- Letitia) 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 Letitia, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.