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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 Anark (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 Anark. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Anark is located in Carroll County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carroll County: Benton, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson, Henry, Madison & Weakley.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Anark ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Anark.

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

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

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

  • Sellers Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Blair Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Bar Springs Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Davis Chapel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Black Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jamison Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Palmer Shelter Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Stanford Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Liberty Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Rosser Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Enochs Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
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    • Tucker Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Antioch Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Palestine Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Clarksburg
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Clarksburg is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksburg
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 376 people
  • Leach
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Leach is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leach
  • Dollar
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Dollar is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dollar
  • Buena Vista
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Huntingdon
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Farmville ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Farmville is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmville
  • Maple Creek ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Maple Creek is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Creek
  • Spain ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Spain is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spain
  • Rosser
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Rosser is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosser
  • Morgan ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Morgan is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan
  • Hollow Rock
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • McLemoresville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
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    • Cedar Grove
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • McHaney ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • McHaney is located in Henderson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McHaney
    • Atkins ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Atkins is located in Henderson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkins
      • Estimated population in 2014: 13,664 people

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

Newspapers Published in Anark ...

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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Anark.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Anark, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Anark.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Anark:

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>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.
<3>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 Anark, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Anark) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.