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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 Rule (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 Rule. 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.

Rule is located in Haskell 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 Haskell County: Baylor, Jones, King, Knox, Shackelford, Stonewall & Throckmorton.

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

  • Haskell County     (The home county of Rule)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rule, with the one closest to Rule listed first.
    • Jud ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Jud is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jud
    • Sagerton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Haskell
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Rochester
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Plainview
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Plainview is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
    • O'Brien
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Weinert
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Stamford
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Fisher County
    • Hamlin
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Jones County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rule, with the one closest to Rule listed first.
    • Tuxedo
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Tuxedo is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuxedo
    • Avoca
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Radium
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Radium is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radium
    • Anson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Funston
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Funston is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
    • Lueders
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Knox County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rule, with the one closest to Rule listed first.
    • Knox City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Munday
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Benjamin
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Goree
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Stonewall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rule, with the one closest to Rule listed first.
    • Old Glory
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Flat Top
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Flat Top is located in Stonewall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Top
    • Aspermont
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Double Mountain
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Double Mountain is located in Stonewall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Mountain

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

Cemeteries Near Rule ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rule.

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

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

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

  • Rule Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Pinkerton Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Hooker Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Old Glory Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Willow Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Idella Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Rochester Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Rayner Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • 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.
  • Capron Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Stamford Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Howard Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (25 more) ...
    • Roberts Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Knox City Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 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 Rule in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rule.

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

  • Haskell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Aspermont
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Hitson
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Hitson is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitson
  • Neinda
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Neinda is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda
  • Benjamin
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Anson
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Goree
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Rule ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rule.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Rule. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Rule and those printed in the larger area surrounding Rule.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4> of Rule.

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 Rule:

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 '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- Rule) 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 Rule, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.