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 Farmers Valley (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 Farmers Valley. 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 Farmers Valley ...
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.
- A typical abbreviation for Farmers Valley: Farmers Vly. (or less commonly used: Farmers Vally. or Farmers Vlly.)
- While the name of this community is Farmers Valley, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Farmers Valley may originally have been Farmer's Valley.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Farmers Valley might be written as Farmer Valley.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Farmers Valley. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Farmers Valley.
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 southwest 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 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.
Farmers Valley is located in Wilbarger 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 Wilbarger County: Jackson (OK), Tillman (OK), Baylor, Foard, Hardeman & Wichita.
Below are the counties that are near Farmers Valley. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Farmers Valley:
- Wilbarger County (The home county of Farmers Valley)
- The following are listed by their distance from Farmers Valley, with the one closest to Farmers Valley listed first.
- Tolbert ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Tolbert is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolbert
- Lockett
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lockett is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockett
- Vernon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- White City
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- White City is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
- Odell
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Fargo
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Fargo is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fargo
- Oklaunion
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Elliott
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Elliott is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliott
- Harrold
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Foard County
- The following are listed by their distance from Farmers Valley, with the one closest to Farmers Valley listed first.
- Rayland
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Rayland is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rayland
- Thalia
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Thalia is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thalia
- Margaret
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Margaret is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margaret
- Crowell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Foard City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Foard City is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foard City
- Hardeman County
- The following are listed by their distance from Farmers Valley, with the one closest to Farmers Valley listed first.
- Chillicothe
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Medicine Mound ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Medicine Mound is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Mound
- Quanah
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Goodlett
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jackson County (OK)
- The following are listed by their distance from Farmers Valley, with the one closest to Farmers Valley listed first.
- Elmer
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Hess
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Hess is located in Jackson County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hess
- Eldorado
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Olustee
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Humphreys
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Humphreys is located in Jackson County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humphreys
- Tillman County (OK)
- The following are listed by their distance from Farmers Valley, with the one closest to Farmers Valley listed first.
- Davidson
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Frederick
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Tipton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Farmers Valley, see our County-by-County Page for Farmers Valley.
Cemeteries Near Farmers Valley ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Farmers Valley.
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 Farmers Valley - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Farmers Valley covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Farmers Valley, with the one closest to Farmers Valley listed first.
- Tolbert Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolbert Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Tolbert Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> to the northwest of Vernon.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2219180 <4>
- Big Valley Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Lockett Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wilbarger Memorial Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilbarger Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Wilbarger Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the northeast of Lockett.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7632 <4>
- Chillicothe Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Zion Lutheran Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Margaret Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Fargo Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Fargo Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fargo Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Fargo Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the north of Vernon.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1987342 <4>
- Thalia Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Eastview Memorial Park
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastview Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Eastview Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Vernon.
- The Eastview Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Eastview Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #157339 <4>
- Bell Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bell Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the northeast of Odell.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2318 <4>
- Continue List (24 more) ...
- Boggy Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Memorial Park
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Carmel Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
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.<5>
While we didn't find Farmers Valley in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Farmers Valley.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Farmers Valley, with the one closest to Farmers Valley listed first.
- Tolbert ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Tolbert is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolbert
- Chillicothe
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Rayland
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Rayland is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rayland
- Vernon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Thalia
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Thalia is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thalia
- Doans
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Doans is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doans
- Oklaunion
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Quanah
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Crowell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Eldorado
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Hess
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Hess is located in Jackson County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hess
- Harrold
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Vivian
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Vivian is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Farmers Valley. See our List of 1890's Communities around Farmers Valley.
Newspapers Published in Farmers Valley ...
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 57 newspapers that have been published in the area around Farmers Valley.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Farmers Valley, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Farmers Valley.
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 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 Farmers Valley:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Wilbarger County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Foard County
- Hardeman County
- Jackson County
- Tillman County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
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> | 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- Farmers Valley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Farmers Valley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |