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 Edmonson (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 Edmonson. 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 and hospitals 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.
Edmonson is located in Hale 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 Hale County: Castro, Crosby, Floyd, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock & Swisher.
Below are the counties that are near Edmonson. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Edmonson:
- Hale County (The home county of Edmonson)
- The following are listed by their distance from Edmonson, with the one closest to Edmonson listed first.
- Plainview
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Seth Ward
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Seth Ward is located in Hale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seth Ward
- Hale City ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Hale City is located in Hale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
- Hale Center
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Cotton Center
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Cotton Center is located in Hale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Center
- Abernathy
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Castro County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edmonson, with the one closest to Edmonson listed first.
- Hart
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Nazareth
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Dimmitt
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Floyd County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edmonson, with the one closest to Edmonson listed first.
- Aiken
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Lockney
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Sterley ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Sterley is located in Floyd County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterley
- Lamb County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edmonson, with the one closest to Edmonson listed first.
- Olton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hart Camp ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Hart Camp is located in Lamb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart Camp
- Springlake
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Fieldton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Spade
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Spade is located in Lamb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spade
- Earth
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Swisher County
- The following are listed by their distance from Edmonson, with the one closest to Edmonson listed first.
- Kress
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Claytonville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Claytonville is located in Swisher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
- Tulia
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Edmonson, see our County-by-County Page for Edmonson.
Cemeteries Near Edmonson ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Edmonson.
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 Edmonson - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Edmonson covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Edmonson, with the one closest to Edmonson listed first.
- Halfway Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Kress Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Olton Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- IOOF Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Plainview Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Plainview Memorial Park
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Hale Center Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale Center Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Hale Center Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Hale Center.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4017 <2>
- Wright Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Hart Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Center Plains Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Rose Hill Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill Cemetery
- The Rose Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rose Cemetery
- Tulia Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6456 <2>
- Holy Family Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Springlake Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Earth Memorial Perpetual Care Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Memorial Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
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 Edmonson in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Edmonson.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Edmonson, with the one closest to Edmonson listed first.
- Plainview
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hale City ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Hale City is located in Hale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
- Tulia
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Lockney
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Edmonson. See our List of 1890's Communities around Edmonson.
Newspapers Published in Edmonson ...
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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Edmonson.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Edmonson, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Edmonson.
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 Edmonson:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Hale County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Castro County
- Floyd County
- Lamb County
- Swisher County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
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> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Edmonson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Edmonson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |