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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 Hyman (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 Hyman. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Hyman is located in Mitchell 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 Mitchell County: Borden, Coke, Fisher, Howard, Nolan, Scurry & Sterling.

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

  • Mitchell County     (The home county of Hyman)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hyman, with the one closest to Hyman listed first.
    • Spade
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Spade is located in Mitchell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spade
    • Iatan
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Iatan is located in Mitchell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatan
    • Westbrook
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cuthbert ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Cuthbert is located in Mitchell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
    • Colorado City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Buford
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Buford is located in Mitchell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
    • Loraine
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Coke County
    • Silver ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Glasscock County
  • Howard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hyman, with the one closest to Hyman listed first.
    • Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Otis Chalk is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
    • Ross City ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Ross City is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross City
    • Forsan
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Coahoma
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Ziler
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Ziler is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
    • Big Spring
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Webb Village
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Webb Village is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
    • Fairview
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Fairview is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
  • Sterling County
    • Sterling City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Hyman ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hyman.

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

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

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

  • Lolanthe Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Spade Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Coahoma Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coahoma Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Coahoma Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Coahoma.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1090378 <2>
  • Iatan Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Westbrook Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Trinity Memorial Park
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Handley Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Cemetery of the Sands
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Mitchell County Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • McKenzie Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Colorado City Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Vincent Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Montvale Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)

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

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

  • Iatan
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Iatan is located in Mitchell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatan
  • Westbrook
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Big Spring
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Sterling City
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Cuthbert ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Cuthbert is located in Mitchell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
  • Silver ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Garden City
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Morita
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Morita is located in Howard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita

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

Newspapers Published in Hyman ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hyman.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hyman, 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 Hyman.

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 Hyman:

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 Hyman, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hyman) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.