A visit to the Adkins Family Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Adkins Family Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Adkins Family Cemetery (FG ID #2454122)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Adkins Family Cemetery ...
The Adkins Family Cemetery is located in Summers County<2>.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
We've listed the following cemeteries alphabetically:
- Beechnut Cemetery
- Bennett Cemetery
- Bragg Cemetery
- The Bragg Cemetery is located in Summers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bragg Cemetery
- Goodson Cemetery
- The Goodson Cemetery is located in Raleigh County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodson Cemetery
- Greenbrier Cemetery
- The Greenbrier Cemetery is located in Summers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenbrier Cemetery
- Hall Family Cemetery
- Hicks - Swell Mtn. Cemetery
- Hilltop Cemetery
- The Hilltop Cemetery is located in Summers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop Cemetery
- Huffman Cemetery
- The Huffman Cemetery is located in Summers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffman Cemetery
- Lilly - Crews Cemetery
- Meadows Cemetery
- The Meadows Cemetery is located in Raleigh County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows Cemetery
- Meadows Family Cemetery
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery
- Plumley Cemetery
- The Plumley Cemetery is located in Raleigh County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plumley Cemetery
- Restwood Cemetery
- The Restwood Cemetery is located in Summers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Restwood Cemetery
- Richmond Cemetery
- The Richmond Cemetery is located in Summers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Cemetery
- St. Colmans Cemetery
- The St. Colmans Cemetery is located in Raleigh County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Colmans Cemetery
- Snider Cemetery
- The Snider Cemetery is located in Summers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snider Cemetery
- Upland Memorial Cemetery
- William Kidwell Cemetery
- Williams Cemetery
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 26 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Adkins Family Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically:
- Abraham
- Bargers Springs
- Beaver
- Bellepoint
- Brooklin
- Buck
- Clifftop
- Daniels
- Forest Hill
- Grandview
- Hilldale
- Hinton
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Jumping Branch
- Lowell
- Meadow Bridge
- Meadow Bridge is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Bridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 344 people
- New Richmond ‑ Historic
- Nimitz
- Packs Ferry
- Packs Ferry is located in Summers County
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- Pipestem
- Prince
- Quinnimont
- Royal ‑ Historic
- Sandstone
- Shady Spring
- Talcott
- True
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Adkins Family Cemetery. The following communities are located in Summers County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Adkins Family Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Adkins Family Cemetery:
- Pages specific to West Virginia:
- Pages specific to Summers County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Adkins Family Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #2454122
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of West Virginia's counties, including Summers, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <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 from Point A (ie- Adkins Family Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
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