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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 Sasakwa (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 Sasakwa. 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.

Sasakwa is located in Seminole 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 Seminole County: Hughes, Okfuskee, Pontotoc & Pottawatomie.

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

  • Seminole County     (The home county of Sasakwa)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sasakwa, with the one closest to Sasakwa listed first.
    • Konawa
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Wewoka
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Lima
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Lima is located in Seminole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lima
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 51 people
    • Bowlegs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Seminole
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Cromwell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Coal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sasakwa, with the one closest to Sasakwa listed first.
    • Tupelo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Centrahoma
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Garvin County
  • Hughes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sasakwa, with the one closest to Sasakwa listed first.
    • Spaulding
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Spaulding is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spaulding
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 171 people
    • Atwood
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Holdenville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Citra
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Calvin
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Gerty
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Gerty is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerty
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
    • Yeager
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Yeager is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 73 people
    • Horntown
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Horntown is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horntown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
    • Non
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Stuart
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Lamar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Wetumka
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • McClain County
    • Byars
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Okfuskee County
  • Pittsburg County
    • Ashland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Pontotoc County
  • Pottawatomie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sasakwa, with the one closest to Sasakwa listed first.
    • Sacred Heart
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Maud
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Saint Louis
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Asher
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Asher is located in Pottawatomie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asher
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 418 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Asher <1>
    • Earlsboro
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Wanette
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Brooksville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Brooksville is located in Pottawatomie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooksville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
    • Macomb
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Macomb is located in Pottawatomie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macomb
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 33 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Macomb <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Sasakwa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sasakwa.

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

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

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

  • Harjo Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Davis Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Harjo Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Saktehke Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Harjo Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Milly Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Fox Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Burgess Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Crossroads Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Cully Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Old Mission Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Morgan Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (177 more) ...
    • Greenleaf Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Tiger Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Harjo Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 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.<2>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Sasakwa ...

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 89 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sasakwa.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Sasakwa. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Sasakwa and those printed in the larger area surrounding Sasakwa.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Sasakwa.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Sasakwa:

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>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 Sasakwa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sasakwa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.