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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 Withers Park (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 Withers Park. 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 Withers Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Withers Park.

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 Withers Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Withers Park, with the one closest to Withers Park listed first.

  • Stokesland Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Schoolfield Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Danville Memorial Gardens
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Moss Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
    • The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Mt. View Cemetery
  • Mt. View Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Hickory Grove UMC Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Freedmens Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Danville National Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Green Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Grove Street Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
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    • Leemont Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Cunningham Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Scearce Gammon Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)

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.<1>

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

These communities are listed based on their distance from Withers Park, with the one closest to Withers Park listed first.

  • Pelham
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Pelham is located in Caswell County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelham
  • Gatewood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Gatewood is located in Caswell County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gatewood
  • Vandola
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Vandola is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vandola
  • Buford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Buford is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
  • Bachelors Hall
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Bachelors Hall is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bachelors Hall
  • Mayfield
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Mayfield is located in Rockingham County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayfield
  • Mount Cross
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Mount Cross is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Cross
  • Blackwell
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Blackwell is located in Caswell County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackwell
  • Oak Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Oak Hill is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hill
  • Ruffin
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Purley
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Purley is located in Caswell County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purley
  • Brosville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Brosville is located in Pittsylvania County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brosville
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Allison
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Allison is located in Caswell County (NC)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison
    • Blanch
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Vance
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Vance is located in Pittsylvania County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vance

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

Newspapers Published in Withers Park ...

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 76 newspapers that have been published in the area around Withers Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Withers Park, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Withers Park.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Withers Park:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Withers Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Withers Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.