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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 Flewellyn (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 Flewellyn. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Flewellyn is located in Robertson 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 Robertson County: Logan (KY), Simpson (KY), Todd (KY), Cheatham, Davidson, Montgomery & Sumner.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Flewellyn ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Flewellyn.

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

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

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

  • Adams Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Lipscomb Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Murphy Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • St. Michaels Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • James Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Murphey Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Farmer Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Billy Cothron Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Browing Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Murphey Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Black Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Green Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (806 more) ...
    • Crockett Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Fisher Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Crockett Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 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.<3>

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

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

  • Kinneys
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Kinneys is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinneys
  • Turnersville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Turnersville is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnersville
  • Coopertown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Coopertown is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopertown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,612 people
  • Cedar Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Springfield
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Pleasant View
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Crunk
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Crunk is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crunk
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,406 people
  • Holmansville ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Holmansville is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmansville
  • Barren Plain
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Thomasville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Thomasville is located in Cheatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomasville
  • Pinnacle
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Pinnacle is located in Cheatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinnacle
  • Forts ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Forts is located in Robertson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forts
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Hoffasville ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Hoffasville is located in Cheatham County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffasville
    • Westeria ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Westeria is located in Cheatham County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westeria
    • Ridgepost ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Ridgepost is located in Davidson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgepost
      • Estimated population in 2014: 1,732 people

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

Newspapers Published in Flewellyn ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Flewellyn.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Flewellyn, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Flewellyn.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Flewellyn:

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 Flewellyn, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Flewellyn) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.