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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 Bride (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 Bride. 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.

Bride is located in Tipton 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 Tipton County: Crittenden (AR), Mississippi (AR), Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale & Shelby.

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

  • Tipton County     (The home county of Bride)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bride, with the one closest to Bride listed first.
    • Garland
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Garland is located in Tipton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 300 people
    • Walnut Grove
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Walnut Grove is located in Tipton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
    • Covington
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Burlison
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Detroit
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Gilt Edge
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Brighton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Mount Carmel
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Mount Carmel is located in Tipton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carmel
      • Estimated population in 2014: 5,453 people
    • Gift
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Gift is located in Tipton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gift
      • Estimated population in 2014: 378 people
    • Clopton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Clopton is located in Tipton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clopton
      • Estimated population in 2014: 9,889 people
    • Randolph
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Idaville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Crockett County
  • Dyer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bride, with the one closest to Bride listed first.
    • Unionville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bruceville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Bruceville is located in Dyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruceville
      • Estimated population in 2014: 1,453 people
  • Fayette County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bride, with the one closest to Bride listed first.
    • Braden
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Gallaway
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Hickory Withe
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Hickory Withe is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Withe
    • Oakland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Feathers Chapel
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Feathers Chapel is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Feathers Chapel
      • Estimated population in 2014: 7,102 people
  • Hancock County
  • Haywood County
  • Lauderdale County
  • Shelby County
  • Mississippi County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bride, with the one closest to Bride listed first.
    • Luxora
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Luxora is located in Mississippi County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,007 people
    • Osceola
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Driver
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Driver is located in Mississippi County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Driver
    • Wilson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Wilson is located in Mississippi County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 803 people
    • Burdette
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Marie
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Marie is located in Mississippi County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marie
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 70 people
    • Barfield
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Victoria
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Victoria is located in Mississippi County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victoria
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
    • Keiser
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Keiser is located in Mississippi County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keiser
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 663 people
    • Armorel
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Armorel is located in Mississippi County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armorel
    • Bassett
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Bardstown
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Bride ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bride.

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

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

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

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 in 1895, Bride had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Garland
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Garland is located in Tipton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 300 people
  • Burlison
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Mack
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Mack is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mack
  • Fort Pillow
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Covington
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Detroit
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Gilt Edge
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Rialto
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Rialto is located in Tipton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rialto
  • Brighton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Glimp
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Glimp is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glimp
  • Fulton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Tabernacle
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Tabernacle is located in Tipton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tabernacle
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Bride ...

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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bride.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bride, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bride.

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 Bride:

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>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- Bride) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Bride, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.