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 Liberty (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 Liberty. 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 doctors and 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.
Liberty is located in Bryan 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 Bryan County: Atoka, Choctaw, Johnston, Marshall, Fannin (TX), Grayson (TX) & Lamar (TX).
Below are the counties that are near Liberty. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Liberty:
- Bryan County (The home county of Liberty)
- The following are listed by their distance from Liberty, with the one closest to Liberty listed first.
- Kemp
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Hendrix
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Yarnaby
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Yarnaby is located in Bryan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yarnaby
- Achille
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Yuba
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Yuba is located in Bryan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yuba
- Colbert
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Calera
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Albany
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Cartwright
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Platter
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Durant
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Wade
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Wade is located in Bryan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wade
- Mead
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Johnston County
- Bee
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bee is located in Johnston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee
- Marshall County
- The following are listed by their distance from Liberty, with the one closest to Liberty listed first.
- McBride
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- McBride is located in Marshall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McBride
- New Woodville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- New Woodville is located in Marshall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Woodville
- Population from the 2010 Census: 132 people
- Cumberland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Cumberland is located in Marshall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland
- Kingston
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Little City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Little City is located in Marshall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little City
- Shay
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Shay is located in Marshall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shay
- Collin County (TX)
- The following are listed by their distance from Liberty, with the one closest to Liberty listed first.
- Sedalia
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Sedalia is located in Collin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sedalia
- Van Alstyne
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Westminster
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Mantua ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Mantua is located in Collin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mantua
- Frognot
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Frognot is located in Collin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frognot
- Anna
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Anna is located in Collin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anna
- Population from the 2020 Census: 16,945 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Anna <1>
- Blue Ridge
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Fannin County (TX)
- The following are listed by their distance from Liberty, with the one closest to Liberty listed first.
- Mulberry
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Mulberry is located in Fannin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulberry
- Ravenna
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sowells Bluff
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Sowells Bluff is located in Fannin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sowells Bluff
- Ridings
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Ridings is located in Fannin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridings
- Savoy
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Ivanhoe
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Ector
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Boyd
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Boyd is located in Fannin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd
- Bonham
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Whitewright
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Edhube
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Edhube is located in Fannin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edhube
- Orangeville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Orangeville is located in Fannin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orangeville
- Dodd City
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Grayson County (TX)
- The following are listed by their distance from Liberty, with the one closest to Liberty listed first.
- Bells
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bells is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bells
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,516 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bells <1>
- Red River City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Red River City is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red River City
- Denison
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Ida
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Ida is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ida
- Twin City
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Twin City is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin City
- Whiterock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Whiterock is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiterock
- Frontier Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Frontier Village is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frontier Village
- Kentucky Town
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Kentucky Town is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentucky Town
- Luella
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Luella is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luella
- Sherman
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Tom Bean
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Knollwood
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Knollwood is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knollwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 503 people
- Tribune
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Tribune is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tribune
- Hunt County (TX)
- Wolfe City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lamar County (TX)
- Direct
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Direct is located in Lamar County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Direct
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Liberty, see our County-by-County Page for Liberty.
Cemeteries Near Liberty ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Liberty.
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 Liberty - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Liberty covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Liberty, with the one closest to Liberty listed first.
- Kemp Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Johnson Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Bloomfield Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Cherry Mound Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Shaw Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Bush Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Virginia Point Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia Point Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Virginia Point Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the north of Savoy (TX).
- The Virginia Point Cemetery has also been known as:
- Virginia Point Methodist Church Cemetery
- Warren Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #969492 <2>
- Virginia Point Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia Point Cemetery
- The Virginia Point Cemetery has also been known as:
- Virginia Point Church Cemetery
- Bell - Youree Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Bradford Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Fairview Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Union Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Continue List (265 more) ...
- Yarnaby Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Oakridge Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Hopkins Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
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 Liberty in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Liberty.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Liberty, with the one closest to Liberty listed first.
- Mulberry
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Mulberry is located in Fannin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulberry
- Ravenna
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Bells
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bells is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bells
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,516 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bells <1>
- Savoy
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Ector
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Ivanhoe
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Denison
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Duplex
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Duplex is located in Fannin County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duplex
- Ida
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Ida is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ida
- Ray
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Ray is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ray
- Bonham
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Kentucky Town
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Kentucky Town is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentucky Town
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Whitewright
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Sherman
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Luella
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Luella is located in Grayson County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luella
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Liberty. See our List of 1890's Communities around Liberty.
Newspapers Published in Liberty ...
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 71 newspapers that have been published in the area around Liberty.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Liberty, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Liberty.
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 Liberty:
- Websites specific to Oklahoma
- Pages specific to Bryan County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Johnston County
- Marshall County
- Collin County
- Fannin County
- Grayson County
- Hunt County
- Lamar County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Oklahoma
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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Liberty) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Liberty, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |