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 Clays Corner (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 Clays Corner. 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 Clays Corner ...
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.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Clays Corner: Clays Cor. (or less commonly used: Clays Crn.)
- While the name of this community is Clays Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Clays Corner may originally have been Clay's Corner.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Clays Corner might be written as Clay Corner.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Clays Corner. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Clays Corner.
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 doctors and hospitals 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.
Clays Corner is located in Nottoway County.
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 Nottoway County: Amelia, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Lunenburg & Prince Edward.
Below are the counties that are near Clays Corner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Clays Corner:
- Nottoway County (The home county of Clays Corner)
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Spainville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Spainville is located in Nottoway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spainville
- Blackstone
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Crewe
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Forkland ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Forkland is located in Nottoway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forkland
- Winnie
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Winnie is located in Nottoway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winnie
- Burkeville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Amelia County
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Earls
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Earls is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earls
- Ammon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Ammon is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammon
- Amelia Court House
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Paineville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Paineville is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paineville
- Rodophil
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Rodophil is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodophil
- Masons Corner
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Masons Corner is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masons Corner
- Lodore
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Lodore is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodore
- Brunswick County
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Jonesboro ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Jonesboro is located in Brunswick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesboro
- Alberta
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Alberta is located in Brunswick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alberta
- Population from the 2020 Census: 265 people
- Dolphin
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Dolphin is located in Brunswick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolphin
- Edgerton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Edgerton is located in Brunswick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgerton
- Lawrenceville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Callaville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Callaville is located in Brunswick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callaville
- Charlotte County
- Keysville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Chesterfield County
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Winterpock
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Winterpock is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterpock
- Coalboro ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Coalboro is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalboro
- Holly ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Holly is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly
- Otterdale
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Otterdale is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otterdale
- Fendley ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Fendley is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fendley
- Matoaca
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Matoaca is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoaca
- Midlothian
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Chesterfield Court House
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Bollinger Estates
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Bollinger Estates is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bollinger Estates
- Braebrook Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Braebrook Village is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braebrook Village
- Ettrick
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Robious
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Robious is located in Chesterfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robious
- Colonial Heights City
- Colonial Heights
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Cumberland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Cotton Town
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Cotton Town is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Town
- Clinton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Clinton is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
- Cumberland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Guinea Mills
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Guinea Mills is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guinea Mills
- Trents Mill
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Trents Mill is located in Cumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trents Mill
- Dinwiddie County
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Wilsons
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wilsons is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsons
- Hebron
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Hebron is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
- Darvills
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Darvills is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darvills
- Oldenplace ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Oldenplace is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oldenplace
- Borthwick ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Borthwick is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borthwick
- McKenney
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Sutherland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Addison
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Addison is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Addison
- Laird ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Laird is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
- Maitland Village
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Maitland Village is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maitland Village
- Grant Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Grant Village is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Village
- Waldemar ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Waldemar is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldemar
- Lunenburg County
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Kenbridge
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Dundas
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Dundas is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundas
- Nutbush
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Nutbush is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nutbush
- Victoria
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Lochleven
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Lochleven is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lochleven
- Lunenburg
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Lunenburg is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lunenburg
- Oral Oaks
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Oral Oaks is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oral Oaks
- Meherrin
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Meherrin is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meherrin
- Pleasant Grove
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Pleasant Grove is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
- Bagleys Mills
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bagleys Mills is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bagleys Mills
- Wattsboro
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Wattsboro is located in Lunenburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wattsboro
- Petersburg City
- Petersburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Powhatan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Pilkinton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Pilkinton is located in Powhatan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilkinton
- Dorset
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Dorset is located in Powhatan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorset
- Belona
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Belona is located in Powhatan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belona
- Huguenot
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Huguenot is located in Powhatan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huguenot
- Prince Edward County
- The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Green Bay
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Farmville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Blake Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Blake Village is located in Prince Edward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blake Village
- Hampden - Sydney
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Hampden - Sydney is located in Prince Edward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampden - Sydney
- Tuggle
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Tuggle is located in Prince Edward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuggle
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Clays Corner, see our County-by-County Page for Clays Corner.
Cemeteries Near Clays Corner ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clays Corner.
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 Clays Corner - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Clays Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Bethel United Bethodist Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Freeman Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Belfast Baptist Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Tucker Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Big Oak Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Towler Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Lunsalord Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Robinson Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Grace Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Oliver Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Gills Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Blendon Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blendon Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Blendon Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the southeast of Crewe.
- The Blendon Cemetery has also been known as:
- Dunn Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #49490 <3>
- Continue List (244 more) ...
- Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Rennie Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Salem Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
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 Clays Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Clays Corner.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
- Denaro
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Denaro is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denaro
- Earls
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Earls is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earls
- Wellville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Wellville is located in Nottoway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellville
- Wilsons
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wilsons is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsons
- Nottoway Court House
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Nottoway Court House is located in Nottoway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nottoway Court House
- Crewe
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Blackstone
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Hebron
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Hebron is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
- Mannboro
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Mannboro is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannboro
- Jetersville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Otterburn
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Otterburn is located in Amelia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otterburn
- Amelia Court House
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Jennings Ordinary
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Jennings Ordinary is located in Nottoway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennings Ordinary
- Darvills
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Darvills is located in Dinwiddie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darvills
- Winnie
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Winnie is located in Nottoway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winnie
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Clays Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Clays Corner.
Newspapers Published in Clays Corner ...
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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Clays Corner.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Clays Corner, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Clays Corner.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Clays Corner:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Pages specific to Nottoway County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Amelia County
- Brunswick County
- Charlotte County
- Chesterfield County
- Colonial Heights City
- Cumberland County
- Dinwiddie County
- Lunenburg County
- Petersburg City
- Powhatan County
- Prince Edward County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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- Clays Corner) 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 Clays Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |