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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 Charlotte Court House (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 Charlotte Court House. 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.

Name Variations for Charlotte Court House ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Another variation: Charlotte Courthouse.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 west contained birth and death records; the county to the north 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.

Charlotte Court House is located in Charlotte County and is the County Seat.

To see how the shape of Virginia's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Charlotte County: Appomattox, Campbell, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg & Prince Edward.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Charlotte Court House ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Charlotte Court House.

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 Charlotte Court House - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Union Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Martin Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Gillispie Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Cub Creek Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Mt. Ellis Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Ash Camp Memorial Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Spring Creek Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Friendship Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Douglas Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Lyle Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
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    • New Bethel Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Whites Chapel Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Oaks Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 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.<2>

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

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

  • Drakes Branch
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Mossingford
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Mossingford is located in Charlotte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mossingford
  • Rough Creek
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Saxe
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Keysville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • County Line Cross Roads
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Madisonville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Madisonville is located in Charlotte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madisonville
  • Ontario
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Ontario is located in Charlotte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ontario
  • Aspenwall
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Briery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Briery is located in Prince Edward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briery
  • Darlington Heights
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Randolph
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
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    • Baileyville ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Baileyville is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baileyville
    • Abell ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Abell is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abell
    • Fort Mitchell
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Mitchell is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Mitchell

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Charlotte Court House ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Charlotte Court House.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Charlotte Court House. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Charlotte Court House and those printed in the larger area surrounding Charlotte Court House.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 23 miles [37 km]<3> of Charlotte Court House.

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 Charlotte Court House:

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>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 Charlotte Court House, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Charlotte Court House) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.