Do you know of Bessie ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bessie. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Bessie.
Our sources for Bessie (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Bessie other than they indicate that Bessie would be found somewhere in Dickenson County, Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1903 and closed in 1922.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Bessie ...
We found ten communities that share the name Bessie.
Within Virginia, the name Bessie is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Georgia
- Wilkes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bessie [Wilkes County].
- Illinois
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bessie [Franklin County].
- North Carolina
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bessie [Jackson County].
- Oklahoma
- Washita County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Bessie [Washita County].
- Tennessee
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bessie [Lake County].
- Texas
- Gaines County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bessie [Gaines County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bessie ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bessie:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Dickenson County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Dickenson County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |