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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 Parkers Crossroads (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 Parkers Crossroads. 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 Parkers Crossroads ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

Another variation: Parker Crossroads.

  • A typical abbreviation for Parkers Crossroads: Parkers Xrds.
  • While the name of this city is Parkers Crossroads, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Parkers Crossroads may originally have been Parker's Crossroads.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Parkers Crossroads might be written as Parker Crossroads.

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

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Parkers Crossroads is located in Henderson 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 Henderson County: Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Hardin & Madison.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Parkers Crossroads ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Parkers Crossroads.

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 Parkers Crossroads - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Marlin Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Kizer Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Carnell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Pearson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Flake Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Lewis Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Rush Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Cain Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Dameron Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Wilson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • White Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (621 more) ...
    • Boswell Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Rhodes Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Coffman 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.<4>

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

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

  • Clarksburg
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Clarksburg is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksburg
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 376 people
  • Farmville ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Farmville is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmville
  • Bargerton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bargerton is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bargerton
  • Spain ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Spain is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spain
  • Atkins ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Atkins is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkins
    • Estimated population in 2014: 13,664 people
  • Alberton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Alberton is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alberton
  • Morgan ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Morgan is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan
  • Juno
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Juno is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juno
  • Lexington
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Poplar Springs
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Poplar Springs is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Springs
  • Maple Creek ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Maple Creek is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Creek
  • Hinson Springs
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Hinson Springs is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinson Springs
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Leach
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Leach is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leach
    • Dollar
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Dollar is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dollar
    • Cedar Grove
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Parkers Crossroads ...

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 Parkers Crossroads.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Parkers Crossroads, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Parkers Crossroads.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Parkers Crossroads:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Parkers Crossroads, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Parkers Crossroads) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.