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 Follett (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 Follett. 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 Follett ...
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.
Another variation: Follet.
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 southeast 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 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 east 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.
Follett is located in Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb County: Beaver (OK), Ellis (OK), Hemphill, Ochiltree & Roberts.
Below are the counties that are near Follett. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Follett:
- Lipscomb County (The home county of Follett)
- The following are listed by their distance from Follett, with the one closest to Follett listed first.
- Darrouzett
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Timms City ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Timms City is located in Lipscomb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timms City
- Lipscomb
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Higgins
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Booker
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Locust Grove
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Locust Grove is located in Lipscomb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
- Hemphill County
- Glazier
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Glazier is located in Hemphill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glazier
- Beaver County (OK)
- The following are listed by their distance from Follett, with the one closest to Follett listed first.
- Logan
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Logan is located in Beaver County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Slapout
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Slapout is located in Beaver County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slapout
- Gate
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Knowles
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Ellis County (OK)
- The following are listed by their distance from Follett, with the one closest to Follett listed first.
- Catesby
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Catesby is located in Ellis County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catesby
- Shattuck
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Gage
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Fargo
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Arnett
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Harper County (OK)
- The following are listed by their distance from Follett, with the one closest to Follett listed first.
- Laverne
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- May
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- May is located in Harper County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
- Population from the 2020 Census: 39 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for May <1>
- Rosston
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Follett, see our County-by-County Page for Follett.
Cemeteries Near Follett ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Follett.
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 Follett - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Follett covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Follett, with the one closest to Follett listed first.
- Fairmont Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Fairview Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Poplar Grove Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Kiowa Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Darrouzett Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Bickford Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Bickford Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Speermoore Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lipscomb Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Madison Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (33 more) ...
- Mountain View Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- View Point Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Lutheran Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutheran Cemetery
- The Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
- Christ Lutheran Cemetery
- St. Pauls Lutheran Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #98158 <2>
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>
While we didn't find Follett in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Follett.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Follett, with the one closest to Follett listed first.
- Logan
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Logan is located in Beaver County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Timms City ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Timms City is located in Lipscomb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timms City
- Lipscomb
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Clear Lake
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Clear Lake is located in Beaver County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Lake
- Higgins
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Elmwood
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Elmwood is located in Beaver County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood
- Gate
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Follett. See our List of 1890's Communities around Follett.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Follett ...
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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Follett.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Follett. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Follett and those printed in the larger area surrounding Follett.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Follett.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Follett:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Lipscomb County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Hemphill County
- Beaver County
- Ellis County
- Harper 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> | 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 Follett, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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- Follett) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |