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 Wilburton (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 Wilburton. 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 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.
Wilburton is located in Latimer County and is the County Seat.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sans Bois. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wilburton.
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 Wilburton covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wilburton, with the one closest to Wilburton listed first.
Sacred Heart Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sacred Heart Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Masonic Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
To give a relative sense of its location, the Lutie Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located between<4> the communities of Wilburton and Panola. The cemetery lies 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the west of Panola.
To give a relative sense of its location, the Riddle Family Cemetery is located between<4> the communities of Wilburton and Panola. The cemetery lies 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the west of Panola.
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brown's Prairie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gowen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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 Wilburton. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wilburton.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Wilburton ...
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 74 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wilburton.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Wilburton. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Wilburton and those printed in the larger area surrounding Wilburton.
An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5> of Wilburton.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Wilburton:
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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.
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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.
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To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Wilburton and Panola. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Wilburton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wilburton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9189, Longitude: -95.3097
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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.