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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 Rural Hill (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 Rural Hill. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Rural Hill is located in Wilson 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 Wilson County: Cannon, Davidson, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner & Trousdale.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Rural Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rural Hill.

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 Rural Hill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Pugh Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Steele Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Suggs Creek Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Jenkins Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Boner Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Morrow Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Goodman Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Dobson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Tilgham Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Slave Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Perry Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
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    • Arnold Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Bigg Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Sperry Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Rural Hill had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Couchville
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Couchville is located in Davidson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couchville
  • Dodoburg ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Dodoburg is located in Wilson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodoburg
  • Mount View
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Mount View is located in Davidson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount View
  • Brooklin
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Brooklin is located in Davidson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklin
  • La Vergne
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Mount Juliet
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Kimbro
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Kimbro is located in Davidson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimbro
  • Vesta
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Vesta is located in Wilson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesta
  • Silver Springs
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Silver Springs is located in Wilson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Springs
  • Beckwith
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hermitage
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Una
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Una is located in Davidson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Una
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    • Green Hill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Green Hill is located in Wilson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hill
    • Wilkerson ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Wilkerson is located in Davidson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilkerson
    • Antioch
      (8 miles [12.9 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 Rural Hill. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rural Hill.

Newspapers Published in Rural Hill ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rural Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rural Hill, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rural Hill.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Rural Hill:

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 Rural Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rural Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.