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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 Cee Vee (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 Cee Vee. 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 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.

Cee Vee is located in Cottle County.

To see how the shape of Texas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cottle County: Childress, Dickens, Foard, Hall, Hardeman, King & Motley.

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

  • Cottle County     (The home county of Cee Vee)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cee Vee, with the one closest to Cee Vee listed first.
    • Narcisso
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Narcisso is located in Cottle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narcisso
    • Paducah
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Baker
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Baker is located in Cottle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
    • Chalk
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Childress County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cee Vee, with the one closest to Cee Vee listed first.
    • Tell
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Carey
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Childress
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Kirkland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Hall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cee Vee, with the one closest to Cee Vee listed first.
    • Hulver
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Hulver is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hulver
    • Estelline
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Newlin
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Newlin is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlin
    • Turkey
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • King County
  • Motley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cee Vee, with the one closest to Cee Vee listed first.
    • Matador
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Russellville ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Russellville is located in Motley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russellville

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

Cemeteries Near Cee Vee ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cee Vee.

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 Cee Vee - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Haven of Rest Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haven of Rest Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Haven of Rest Cemetery is located 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> to the northwest of Paducah.
    • The Haven of Rest Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cee Vee Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4118 <3>
  • Dunlap Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Tell Methodist Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Tell Baptist Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Garden of Memories
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden of Memories
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Garden of Memories is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Paducah.
    • The Garden of Memories has also been known as:
    • Garden of Memories Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3755 <3>
  • Carey Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Swearingen Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Buck Creek Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Creek Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Buck Creek Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southwest of Paducah.
    • The Buck Creek Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Harmony Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1462984 <3>
  • Childress Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Hutchins Family Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hutchins Family Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hutchins Family Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the south of Estelline.
  • Hulver Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Estelline Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...

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

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

  • Paducah
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Carey
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Childress
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Hulver
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Hulver is located in Hall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hulver
  • Kirkland
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Matador
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Newlin
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Newlin is located in Hall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlin

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

Newspapers Published in Cee Vee ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cee Vee.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cee Vee, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cee Vee.

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 either 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 Cee Vee:

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