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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 Tumbling (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 Tumbling. 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 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.

Tumbling 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 Tumbling. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tumbling:

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

Cemeteries Near Tumbling ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tumbling.

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

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

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

  • Tumbling Creek Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Butler Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • El Bethel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Old El Bethel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • El Bethel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Tyson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Campbell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Union Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Roney Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Crawley Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Lawrence Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
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    • Glisson Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Page Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Miller Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)

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 Tumbling in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tumbling.

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

  • Como
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Como is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Como
  • Gleason
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • McKenzie
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Pillowville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Pillowville is located in Weakley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pillowville
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,625 people
  • Dresden
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Hico
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Osage
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Osage is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osage
  • Cottage Grove
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Palmersville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Palmersville is located in Weakley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmersville
  • Christmasville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Christmasville is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christmasville
  • Haglerville ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Haglerville is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haglerville
  • Paris
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
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    • Mixie
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Mixie is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mixie
    • Whitlock
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Carnsville ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Carnsville is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnsville

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

Newspapers Published in Tumbling ...

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 77 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tumbling.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tumbling, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tumbling.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Tumbling:

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 Tumbling, 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- Tumbling) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.