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 Woodlawn (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 Woodlawn. 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.
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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 south 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.
Woodlawn is located in Grays Harbor County.
To see how the shape of Washington's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Grays Harbor County: Jefferson, Lewis, Mason, Pacific & Thurston.
Below are the counties that are near Woodlawn. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Woodlawn:
- Grays Harbor County (The home county of Woodlawn)
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodlawn, with the one closest to Woodlawn listed first.
- Hoquiam
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- North Aberdeen
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- North Aberdeen is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Aberdeen
- Aberdeen
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Grays Harbor City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Grays Harbor City is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays Harbor City
- South Aberdeen
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- South Aberdeen is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Aberdeen
- Junction City
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Junction City is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction City
- Cosmopolis
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Gray Gables
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Gray Gables is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Gables
- Aberdeen Gardens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Aberdeen Gardens is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Gardens
- Markham
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Markham is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markham
- Central Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Central Park is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Park
- Ocosta
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Ocosta is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocosta
- Mason County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodlawn, with the one closest to Woodlawn listed first.
- Deckerville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Deckerville is located in Mason County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deckerville
- Matlock
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Matlock is located in Mason County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matlock
- Pacific County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodlawn, with the one closest to Woodlawn listed first.
- Tokeland
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Raymond
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- South Bend
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Bay Center
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Menlo
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Menlo is located in Pacific County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menlo
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Woodlawn, see our County-by-County Page for Woodlawn.
Cemeteries Near Woodlawn ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Woodlawn.
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 Woodlawn - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Woodlawn covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Woodlawn, with the one closest to Woodlawn listed first.
- Sunset Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Fern Hill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Forest Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Wynooche Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Elma Catholic Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Masonic Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Turnow Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Washington Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Oddfellow Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Giesy Family Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Giesy Family Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Giesy Family Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the northwest of Menlo.
- The Giesy Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kiel Colony Cemetery
- Willie Keil Gravesite
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #641574 <2>
- Sharon Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Fern Hill Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- McCleary Pythian Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 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.<4>
While we didn't find Woodlawn in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Woodlawn.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Woodlawn, with the one closest to Woodlawn listed first.
- Hoquiam
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Aberdeen
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- South Aberdeen
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- South Aberdeen is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Aberdeen
- Cosmopolis
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Aberdeen Junction
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Aberdeen Junction is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Junction
- Markham
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Markham is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markham
- Ocosta
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Ocosta is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocosta
- Artic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Artic is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artic
- Melbourne
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Melbourne is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melbourne
- Axford
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Axford is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Axford
- Montesano
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Humptulips
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Satsop
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Satsop is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satsop
- Elma
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Elma is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elma
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,378 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elma <1>
- South Bend
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Woodlawn. See our List of 1890's Communities around Woodlawn.
Newspapers Published in Woodlawn ...
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 86 newspapers that have been published in the area around Woodlawn.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Woodlawn, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Woodlawn.
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 Woodlawn:
- Websites specific to Washington
- Pages specific to Grays Harbor County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Mason County
- Pacific County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Washington
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> | 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> | 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- Woodlawn) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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 Woodlawn, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |