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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 Live Oak (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 Live Oak. 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 southeast 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 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.

Live Oak is located in Concho 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 Concho County: Coleman, McCulloch, Menard, Runnels, Schleicher & Tom Green.

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

  • Concho County     (The home county of Live Oak)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Live Oak, with the one closest to Live Oak listed first.
    • Eden
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Eden is located in Concho County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,339 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eden <1>
    • Eola
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Millersview
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Paint Rock
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Lowake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • McCulloch County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Live Oak, with the one closest to Live Oak listed first.
    • Melvin
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Salt Gap ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Salt Gap is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Gap
    • Doole ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Doole is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doole
    • Pear Valley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Calf Creek ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Calf Creek is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calf Creek
  • Menard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Live Oak, with the one closest to Live Oak listed first.
    • Menard
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Fort McKavett ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Hext
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Tom Green County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Live Oak, with the one closest to Live Oak listed first.
    • Vancourt
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Mereta
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Veribest
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Veribest is located in Tom Green County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Veribest

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

Cemeteries Near Live Oak ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Live Oak.

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 Live Oak - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Live Oak Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Live Oak Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Live Oak Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> to the southwest of Eden.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4881 <3>
  • Eden Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Eden Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<2> to the north of Eden.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3369 <3>
  • Waddell Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Sudduth Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sudduth Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sudduth Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the east of Eden.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7127 <3>
  • Denis Family Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Loveless Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loveless Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Loveless Cemetery is located 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the southeast of Eden.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4953 <3>
  • Ellis Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Rest Haven Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Pioneer Rest Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Opp Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Melvin Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Millersview Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...

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

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

  • Eden
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Eden is located in Concho County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,339 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eden <1>
  • Fort McKavett ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Paint Rock
    (25 miles [40.2 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 Live Oak. See our List of 1890's Communities around Live Oak.

Newspapers Published in Live Oak ...

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 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Live Oak.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Live Oak, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Live Oak.

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 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 Live Oak:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Live Oak) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Live Oak, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.