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 Bristol (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 Bristol. 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 Bristol ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bristol.
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 Bristol - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bristol covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bristol, with the one closest to Bristol listed first.
- East Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Susong Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Sharrett Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Citizens Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Moore Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Rust Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Shelby Hills Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Glenwood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Sproles Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Claymen Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Leonard Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Continue List (1619 more) ...
- Moore Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Harr Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Ordway Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
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 Bristol in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bristol.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bristol, with the one closest to Bristol listed first.
- Bristol
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Paperville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Paperville is located in Sullivan County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paperville
- Benhams
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Benhams is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benhams
- Ruthton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Ruthton is located in Sullivan County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthton
- Wallace
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Wallace is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
- Beidlemans ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Beidlemans is located in Sullivan County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beidlemans
- Holston Valley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Holston Valley is located in Sullivan County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holston Valley
- Ketron
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ketron is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ketron
- Fleenors
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Fleenors is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleenors
- Blountville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Sumpter ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Sumpter is located in Sullivan County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sumpter
- Bluff City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bluff City is located in Sullivan County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,672 people
- Former name for Bluff City:
- Zollicoffer
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bluff City <3>
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Ravens Nest
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Ravens Nest is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravens Nest
- Fishdam ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Fishdam is located in Sullivan County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishdam
- Mill Point
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Mill Point is located in Sullivan County (TN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Point
- Estimated population in 2014: 11,080 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bristol. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bristol.
Newspapers Published in Bristol ...
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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bristol.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bristol, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bristol.
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 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 Bristol:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
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 Bristol, 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 '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- Bristol) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |