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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 Nashoba Y (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 Nashoba Y. 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.

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

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

  • Pushmataha County     (The home county of Nashoba Y)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nashoba Y, with the one closest to Nashoba Y listed first.
    • Nashoba
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Nolia
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Nolia is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolia
    • Clayton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Tuskahoma
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Snow
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Stanley
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
    • Cloudy
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Cloudy is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloudy
    • Albion
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Finley
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Adel
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel
    • Eubanks
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Eubanks is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eubanks
    • Oleta
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Oleta is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oleta
  • Atoka County
  • Choctaw County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nashoba Y, with the one closest to Nashoba Y listed first.
    • Spencerville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Apple
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Apple is located in Choctaw County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple
    • Virgil
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Virgil is located in Choctaw County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgil
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nashoba Y, with the one closest to Nashoba Y listed first.
    • Damon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Bengal
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Bengal is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal
    • Gowen
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Wilburton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Le Flore County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nashoba Y, with the one closest to Nashoba Y listed first.
    • Honobia
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Talihina
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Ludlow
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Ludlow is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
    • Whitesboro
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • McCurtain County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nashoba Y, with the one closest to Nashoba Y listed first.
    • Pickens
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Battiest
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Ringold
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Bethel
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Rufe
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Slim
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Slim is located in McCurtain County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slim
  • Pittsburg County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nashoba Y, with the one closest to Nashoba Y listed first.
    • Arch
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Hartshorne
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Haileyville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Nashoba Y ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nashoba Y.

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 Nashoba Y - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Black Fork Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Nashoba Indian Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Nolia Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Clayton Old Town Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • A.L. Stephens Memorial Park
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Cole Spur Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Kiamichi Pioneer Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Old Town - Tuskahoma Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Stanley Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • One Creek Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Anderson Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Cloudy Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (77 more) ...
    • Reynolds Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Countyline Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Fewell Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Nashoba Y ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nashoba Y.

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

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 Nashoba Y:

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- Nashoba Y) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.