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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 Talihina (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 Talihina. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Talihina is located in Le Flore County.

To see how the shape of Oklahoma's counties 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 Talihina. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Talihina:

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

Cemeteries Near Talihina ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Talihina.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Talihina Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Talihina Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Talihina Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • McIntosh Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McIntosh Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McIntosh Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Armstrong Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Armstrong Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Armstrong Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Albion Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Albion Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Albion Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Peachland Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Noah Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Noah Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Noah Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Heath Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Heath Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Heath Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Myers Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Myers Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Myers Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bohannon Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bohannon Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bohannon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Potts Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Laura Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Le Flore Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
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    • Salonia Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salonia Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salonia Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Kiamichi Pioneer Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kiamichi Pioneer Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kiamichi Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Rock Creek Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rock Creek Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rock Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Talihina ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Talihina.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Talihina. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Talihina and those printed in the larger area surrounding Talihina.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5> of Talihina.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Talihina:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Talihina. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/

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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Talihina) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Talihina. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7524, Longitude: -95.0430    









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 29 Apr 2025