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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 Bellevue Park (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 Bellevue Park. 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.

Cemeteries Near Bellevue Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bellevue Park.

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 Bellevue Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Harris Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Sherwood Burial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Loury Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • East Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Williams Memorial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Cedar Lawn Burial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Peters Creek Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • West Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Church Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairview Cemetery is located in Roanoke.
    • The Fairview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Fairview Cemetery
  • Jonathan Tosh Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
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    • Memorial Bridge Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Cain Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)

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.<2>

While we didn't find Bellevue Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bellevue Park.

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

  • Roanoke
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Cave Spring
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Cave Spring is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Spring
  • Hollins
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Poages Mill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Poages Mill is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poages Mill
  • Vinton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Cloverdale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Catawba
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Bonsack
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Bonsack is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonsack
  • Moomaw ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Moomaw is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moomaw
  • Leslie
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Leslie is located in Roanoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
  • Coyner Springs
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Coyner Springs is located in Botetourt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyner Springs
  • Daleville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
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    • Airpoint
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Airpoint is located in Roanoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airpoint
    • Naff
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Naff is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naff
    • Amsterdam
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Amsterdam is located in Botetourt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amsterdam

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

Newspapers Published in Bellevue Park ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bellevue Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bellevue Park, there are papers which were published within Less than 2 miles<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bellevue Park.

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 websites either 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 Bellevue Park:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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 Bellevue Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Bellevue Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.