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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 Brownsville (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 Brownsville. 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 and doctors 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.

Brownsville is located in Marlboro County.

To see how the shape of South Carolina's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Marlboro County: Anson (NC), Richmond (NC), Robeson (NC), Scotland (NC), Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon & Florence.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Brownsville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brownsville.

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 Brownsville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Bethesda Southern Methodist Church Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethesda Southern Methodist Church Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethesda Southern Methodist Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Brownsville Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brownsville Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brownsville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Catfish Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Catfish Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Catfish Creek Baptist Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. George Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. George Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. George Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Parnassus Graveyard
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Parnassus Graveyard
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Parnassus Graveyard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bethea Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethea Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethea Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bethel Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethel Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ramsey Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ramsey Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ramsey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Alford Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alford Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Haselden Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haselden Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Haselden Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Mace Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mace Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mace Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Sweat Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sweat Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sweat Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Lane Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lane Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lane Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Dothan Methodist Church Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dothan Methodist Church Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dothan Methodist Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Rogers Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rogers Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rogers Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Brownsville had a population of 25 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Brownsville ...

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 75 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brownsville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Brownsville, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Brownsville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Brownsville:

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

The official website for Marlboro County: www.marlborocounty.sc.gov/

The official website for State of South Carolina: https://sc.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>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 Brownsville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>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- Brownsville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brownsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.3925, Longitude: -79.5923    









 

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