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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 Bebee (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 Bebee. 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 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 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.

Bebee is located in Wetzel County.

To see how the shape of West 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 Wetzel County: Monroe (OH), Greene (PA), Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia & Tyler.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Bebee ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bebee.

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 Bebee - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Harland Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Fitzsimmons Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Apostolic Christian Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Cherry Grove Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Kiger Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Wileyville Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Kirkland Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Palmer Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Palmer Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • McKimmie Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Brock Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (676 more) ...
    • Dulaney Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Highland Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Mt. Zion Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)

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 Bebee in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bebee.

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

  • Halls Mills
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Halls Mills is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halls Mills
  • Newdale
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Newdale is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newdale
  • Green Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Green Hill is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hill
  • Wileyville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Wileyville is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wileyville
  • Andy ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Andy is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andy
  • West
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • West is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West
  • Marion
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Childs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Vernon
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Vernon is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon
  • Porters Falls
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Porters Falls is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porters Falls
  • Reader
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Reader is located in Wetzel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reader
  • Saint Joseph
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Saint Joseph is located in Marshall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Joseph
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Minnie
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Pine Grove
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Millsboro
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Millsboro is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millsboro

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

Newspapers Published in Bebee ...

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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bebee.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bebee, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bebee.

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 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 Bebee:

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 Bebee, 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' (or 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- Bebee) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.