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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 Busy Corner (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 Busy Corner. 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 Busy Corner ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Busy Corner: Busy Cor. (or less commonly used: Busy Crn.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Busy Corner. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Busy Corner.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Busy Corner is located in Coffee 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 Coffee County: Bedford, Cannon, Franklin, Grundy, Moore, Rutherford & Warren.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Busy Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Busy Corner.

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 Busy Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Hurricane Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Tomes Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Cummingham Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Trail Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Williams Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Lynch Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Bly Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Hodge Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • New Redden Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Old Redden Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Hickerson Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (1506 more) ...
    • Minerva Lusk Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Granny Hickerson Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Farrar Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)

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.<2>

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

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

  • Noah
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Noah is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noah
  • Teal ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Teal is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teal
  • Manchester
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Holly ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Holly is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly
  • Cortner
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Normandy
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Belmont
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Fairfield
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Fairfield is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield
  • Haley
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Beechgrove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Gossburg
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Summitville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Summitville is located in Coffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summitville
  • Continue List   (22 more) ...
    • Wartrace
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Naola ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Naola is located in Coffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naola
    • Hollow Springs
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Hollow Springs is located in Cannon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollow Springs
      • Estimated population in 2014: 706 people

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

Newspapers Published in Busy Corner ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Busy Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Busy Corner, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Busy Corner.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Busy Corner:

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>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 Busy Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Busy Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.