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 Fairs Crossroads (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 Fairs Crossroads. 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.
Name Variations for Fairs Crossroads ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Fairs Crossroads: Fairs Xrds.
- While the name of this community is Fairs Crossroads, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Fairs Crossroads may originally have been Fair's Crossroads.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Fairs Crossroads might be written as Fair Crossroads.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 hospitals and 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.
Fairs Crossroads is located in Abbeville County.
To see how the shape of South Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Abbeville County: Elbert (GA), Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens & McCormick.
Below are the counties that are near Fairs Crossroads. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fairs Crossroads:
- Abbeville County (The home county of Fairs Crossroads)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Due West
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Level Land
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Level Land is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Level Land
- Antreville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Antreville is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antreville
- Abbeville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Donalds
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Monterey ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Monterey is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey
- Lake Secession
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Lake Secession is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Secession
- Honea Path
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Ware Shoals
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Cana ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Cana is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cana
- Latimer
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Latimer is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimer
- Lowndesville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Calhoun Falls
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Anderson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Iva
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Iva is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iva
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Iva <2>
- Deans
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Deans is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deans
- Starr
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Belton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Homeland Park
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Homeland Park is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homeland Park
- Anderson
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Caldwell Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Caldwell Village is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caldwell Village
- Anderson Village
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Anderson Village is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson Village
- Holland Store
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Holland Store is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland Store
- Holland Store has also been known as:
- Hollands
- Williamston
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Centerville Terrace Estates
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Centerville
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Centerville is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Northlake
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Northlake is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northlake
- Greenville County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Lickville
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Lickville is located in Greenville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lickville
- Fork Shoals
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Fork Shoals is located in Greenville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fork Shoals
- Greenwood County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Hodges
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Cokesbury
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Cokesbury is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokesbury
- Greenwood Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Greenwood Village is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood Village
- Promised Land
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Promised Land is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Promised Land
- Verdery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Verdery is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdery
- Greenwood
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Grendel Village
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Grendel Village is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grendel Village
- Panola Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Panola Village is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panola Village
- Mathews Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Mathews Village is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mathews Village
- Coronaca
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Coronaca is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coronaca
- Bradley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Fairforest
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Fairforest is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairforest
- Troy
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Laurens County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Mount Gallagher
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Mount Gallagher is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Gallagher
- Princeton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Princeton is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princeton
- Collins Lakeside Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Ekom
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Ekom is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ekom
- Waterloo
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Simpson ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Simpson is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simpson
- Cold Point
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Cold Point is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Point
- Cross Hill
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Green Pond
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Green Pond is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Pond
- Lisbon ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Lisbon is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisbon
- Mountville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Anglers Haven
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Anglers Haven is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anglers Haven
- Gray Court
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- McCormick County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Mount Carmel
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Willington
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Willington is located in McCormick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willington
- McCormick
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Liberty Hill
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Liberty Hill is located in McCormick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Hill
- Elbert County (GA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Bowman Ferry
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Bowman Ferry is located in Elbert County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowman Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 808 people
- Edinburg ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Edinburg is located in Elbert County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburg
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,396 people
- Harmony
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Harmony is located in Elbert County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
- Silk Mills
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Silk Mills is located in Elbert County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silk Mills
- Estimated population in 2019: 277 people
- Centerville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Centerville is located in Elbert County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Elberton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Goss
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Goss is located in Elbert County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goss
- Dewy Rose
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Hart County (GA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Dooleys Ferry
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Dooleys Ferry is located in Hart County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dooleys Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 136 people
- Cooleys Ferry
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Cooleys Ferry is located in Hart County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooleys Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 529 people
- Crawfords Ferry
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Crawfords Ferry is located in Hart County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawfords Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 473 people
- Hartwell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Reed Creek
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Reed Creek is located in Hart County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed Creek
- Lincoln County (GA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Hesters Ferry
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Hesters Ferry is located in Lincoln County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesters Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 911 people
- Lisbon ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Lisbon is located in Lincoln County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisbon
- Midway
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Midway is located in Lincoln County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Goshen
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Goshen is located in Lincoln County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fairs Crossroads, see our County-by-County Page for Fairs Crossroads.
Cemeteries Near Fairs Crossroads ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fairs Crossroads.
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 Fairs Crossroads - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fairs Crossroads covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Little Mountain Presbyterian Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Mountain Presbyterian Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Little Mountain Presbyterian Church Cemetery is located between<3> the communities of Antreville and Abbeville. The cemetery lies 4 miles [6.4 km]<4> to the southeast of Antreville.
- The Little Mountain Presbyterian Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Little Mountain Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #70540 <5>
- Bethlehem Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Ashley Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Little River Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Gilgal Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Old Gilgal Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Due West Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Due West Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Old Zion Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Upper Long Cane Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Shiloh Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Duncan Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Continue List (292 more) ...
- Melrose Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hobson Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Aiken Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
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.<6>
While we didn't find Fairs Crossroads in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fairs Crossroads.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fairs Crossroads, with the one closest to Fairs Crossroads listed first.
- Dover ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Dover is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
- Due West
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Level Land
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Level Land is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Level Land
- Antreville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Antreville is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antreville
- Darraugh
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Darraugh is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darraugh
- Donalds
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Monterey ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Monterey is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey
- Watts
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Watts is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watts
- Hodges
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Storeville ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Storeville is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Storeville
- Honea Path
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Lowndesville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Latimer
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Latimer is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimer
- Cana ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Cana is located in Abbeville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cana
- Iva
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Iva is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iva
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Iva <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fairs Crossroads. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fairs Crossroads.
Newspapers Published in Fairs Crossroads ...
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 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fairs Crossroads.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fairs Crossroads, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fairs Crossroads.
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 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 Fairs Crossroads:
- Websites specific to South Carolina
- Pages specific to Abbeville County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Anderson County
- Greenville County
- Greenwood County
- Laurens County
- McCormick County
- Elbert County
- Hart County
- Lincoln County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for South Carolina
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Antreville and Abbeville. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <4> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fairs Crossroads) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Fairs Crossroads, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |