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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 Hitson (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 Hitson. 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 and doctors 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.

Hitson is located in Fisher 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 Fisher County: Jones, Kent, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Stonewall & Taylor.

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

  • Fisher County     (The home county of Hitson)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hitson, with the one closest to Hitson listed first.
    • Hamlin
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • McCaulley
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • McCaulley is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCaulley
    • Royston
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Royston is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royston
    • Sylvester
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Roby
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Rotan
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Hobbs
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Hobbs is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
    • Capitola
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Capitola is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitola
    • Claytonville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Claytonville is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hitson, with the one closest to Hitson listed first.
    • Sagerton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Stamford
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Plainview
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Plainview is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
    • Rule
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Rule is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rule
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 611 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rule <1>
  • Jones County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hitson, with the one closest to Hitson listed first.
    • Radium
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Radium is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radium
    • Tuxedo
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Tuxedo is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuxedo
    • Anson
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Funston
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Funston is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
    • Avoca
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Stith
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Stith is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stith
    • Hawley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Stonewall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hitson, with the one closest to Hitson listed first.
    • Flat Top
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Flat Top is located in Stonewall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Top
    • Aspermont
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Old Glory
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Double Mountain
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Double Mountain is located in Stonewall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Mountain
  • Taylor County
    • Trent
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Hitson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hitson.

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

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

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

  • Afton Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • North Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • North Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Hamlin Memorial Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlin Memorial Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hamlin Memorial Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Hamlin.
    • The Hamlin Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
    • East Cemetery
    • Hamlin East Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3335 <2>
  • Fisher Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Dowell Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Rotan Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Roby Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Sylvester Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Johnson Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Rayner Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rayner Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Rayner Cemetery is located between<3> the communities of Flat Top and Old Glory.  The cemetery lies 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the southwest of Old Glory.
  • Continue List   (31 more) ...
    • Aspermont Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Anderson Chapel Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Sardis Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Hitson had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Neinda
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Neinda is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda
  • Fisher
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Fisher is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
  • Roby
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Aspermont
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Anson
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Double Mountain
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Double Mountain is located in Stonewall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Mountain
  • Hobbs
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Hobbs is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
  • Eskota
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Eskota is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eskota
  • Claytonville
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Claytonville is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
  • Trent
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Hitson ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hitson.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hitson, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hitson.

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 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 Hitson:

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>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Flat Top and Old Glory. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<4>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- Hitson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Hitson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.