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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 Martin (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 Martin. 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 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.

Martin is located in Weakley 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 Weakley County: Graves (KY), Carroll, Gibson, Henry & Obion.

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

  • Weakley County     (The home county of Martin)
  • Carroll County
  • Dyer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Martin, with the one closest to Martin listed first.
    • Trimble
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Trimble is located in Dyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trimble
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 602 people
    • Churchton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Churchton is located in Dyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Churchton
      • Estimated population in 2014: 6,752 people
    • Newbern
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Tatumville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Gibson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Martin, with the one closest to Martin listed first.
    • Four Points
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Rutherford
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bradford
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Tilghman
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Dyer
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Yorkville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Yorkville is located in Gibson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorkville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
    • Concord
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Whitway
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Trenton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Union Central
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Union Central is located in Gibson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Central
      • Estimated population in 2014: 3,574 people
    • Ledbetter
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Ledbetter is located in Gibson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledbetter
      • Estimated population in 2014: 29,427 people
    • Milan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Henry County
  • Obion County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Martin, with the one closest to Martin listed first.
    • McConnell
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Pierce Station
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • South Fulton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Rives
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Union City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Kenton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Englewood
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Englewood is located in Obion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
      • Estimated population in 2014: 1,532 people
    • Woodland Mills
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Woodland Mills is located in Obion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Mills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 358 people
    • Troy
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Troy is located in Obion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,328 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Troy <1>
    • Obion
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Obion is located in Obion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obion
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,043 people
    • Hornbeak
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Samburg
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Calloway County (KY)
  • Fulton County (KY)
  • Graves County (KY)
  • Hickman County (KY)

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

Cemeteries Near Martin ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Martin.

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

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

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

  • Yellow Fever Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Dibrell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • East Side Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Lynch Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Scott Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Williams Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Williams Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Wood Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Tidwell Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Baldridge Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Baldridge Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Obion Chapel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (691 more) ...
    • Parham Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Memorial Gardens Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Old Salem Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Martin had a population of 1,367 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Martin had a population of 10,567 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Martin ...

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 80 newspapers that have been published in the area around Martin.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Martin. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Martin and those printed in the larger area surrounding Martin.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3> of Martin.

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 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 Martin:

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