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 Sheffield (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 Sheffield. 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 Sheffield ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sheffield.
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.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sheffield covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sheffield, with the one closest to Sheffield listed first.
- Ft. Hill Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Hill Memorial Park
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Hill Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Beulah Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beulah Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beulah Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Forest Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Hill Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Forest Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Spring Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spring Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #52246 <2>
- Gilliam Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gilliam Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gilliam Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Candler Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Candler Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Candler Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Burford Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Burford Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Burford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Falwell Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Falwell Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Falwell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- White Rock Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Rock Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Rock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Presbyterian Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Presbyterian Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Presbyterian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Lynchburg Baptist Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lynchburg Baptist Cemetery
- Old City Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old City Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old City Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Lynchburg.
- The Old City Cemetery has also been known as:
- Confederate Cemetery
- Methodist Cemetery
- Old Lynchburg City Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1970115 <2>
- Continue List (165 more) ...
- Reynolds Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reynolds Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Reynolds Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Dodson Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dodson Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dodson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Falwell Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Falwell Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Falwell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Reynolds Cemetery
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.<3>
While we didn't find Sheffield in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sheffield.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sheffield, with the one closest to Sheffield listed first.
- Lawyers
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south) - Bocock
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east) - Forest
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest
- Forest is located in Bedford County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Forest <5>
- Bedford Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bedford Springs. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bedford Springs
- Bedford Springs is located in Campbell County
- Boonsboro
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boonsboro
- Boonsboro is located in Bedford County
- Yellow Branch
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yellow Branch have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Branch
- Yellow Branch is located in Campbell County
- Rustburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rustburg
- Rustburg is located in Campbell County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rustburg <5>
- Coffee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest) - Mount Athos ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Athos have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Athos
- Mount Athos is located in Campbell County
- Joshua Falls
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Joshua Falls. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joshua Falls
- Joshua Falls is located in Amherst County
- Abert
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north) - Perrowville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Perrowville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perrowville
- Perrowville is located in Bedford County
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Bellevue
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west) - Salt Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salt Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek
- Salt Creek is located in Amherst County
- Evington
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bellevue
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sheffield. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sheffield.
Newspapers Published in Sheffield ...
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 100 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sheffield.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sheffield, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sheffield.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Sheffield:
- Websites specific to Virginia
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the Library of Virginia
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Virginia
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Virginia
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Virginia
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Virginia
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Virginia
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Sheffield. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Sheffield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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- Sheffield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sheffield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3674, Longitude: -79.1909 In this case, the coordinates for Sheffield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |