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 Holswade Addition (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 Holswade Addition. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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.
Holswade Addition is located in Roane 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 Roane County : Calhoun , Clay , Jackson , Kanawha & Wirt .
Below are the counties that are near Holswade Addition. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Holswade Addition:
Roane County (The home county of Holswade Addition)
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Spencer (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Triplett (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Triplett is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triplett Graux (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Graux is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graux Millard (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Millard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millard Rushville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Rushville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville Zona (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Reedy (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Reedy is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedy Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
Roxalana (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Roxalana is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxalana Flint Town (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Flint Town is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Town Looneyville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Walton (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Woodyard ‑ Historic(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Woodyard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodyard Braxton County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Elmira (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Elmira is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmira Sleith ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Sleith is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleith Progress ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Progress is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progress Wilsie (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Wilsie is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsie Clem (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Clem is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clem Frametown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Frametown is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frametown Chapel (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Chapel is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Rockton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Rockton is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockton Strange Creek (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Strange Creek is located in Braxton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strange Creek Calhoun County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Pink (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Pink is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pink Rocksdale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Rocksdale is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocksdale Beech (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Beech is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Hur (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Hur is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hur Arnoldsburg (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Arnoldsburg is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnoldsburg Orma (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Orma is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orma Gomez ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Gomez is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gomez Big Bend (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Big Bend is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bend Oka (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Oka is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oka Russet (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Russet is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russet Grantsville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Staten (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Staten is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Staten Clay County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Lydia (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Lydia is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lydia Porter (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Porter is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Procious (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Procious is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Procious Dink (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Dink is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dink Valley Fork (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Valley Fork is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Fork Bomont (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Bomont is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomont Gould (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Gould is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould Spread (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Spread is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Elkhurst (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Elkhurst is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst Ira (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Ira is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ira Clay (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Harrison (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Harrison is located in Clay County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison Gilmer County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Stumptown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Stumptown is located in Gilmer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stumptown Shock (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Shock is located in Gilmer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shock Normantown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
De Kalb (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
De Kalb is located in Gilmer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Kalb Cedarville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Cedarville is located in Gilmer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarville Glenville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Newberne (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Newberne is located in Gilmer County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newberne Jackson County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Liverpool (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Liverpool is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liverpool Aplin ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Aplin is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aplin Hereford (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Hereford is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hereford Garfield (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Garfield is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield Meadowdale (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Meadowdale is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowdale Fletcher (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Fletcher is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Kentuck (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Kentuck is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentuck Statts Mills (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Statts Mills is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statts Mills Odaville (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Odaville is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odaville Kenna (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Romance (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Romance is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romance Fairplain (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Fairplain is located in Jackson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairplain Kanawha County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Island Branch (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Island Branch is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Branch Wellford (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Wellford is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellford Clendenin (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Reamer (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Reamer is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reamer Falling Rock (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Falling Rock is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Rock Aarons (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Aarons is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aarons Youngs Bottom (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Youngs Bottom is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngs Bottom Sissonville (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Wills (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Wills is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wills Legg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Legg is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legg Apgah ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Apgah is located in Kanawha County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apgah Elkview (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Mason County
Baden (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Baden is located in Mason County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baden Putnam County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Liberty (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Liberty is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Sigman (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Sigman is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sigman Paradise (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Paradise is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Ritchie County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Oxbow (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Oxbow is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxbow Cisco (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Cisco is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cisco Smithville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Smithville is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithville Rusk (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Rusk is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rusk Burnt House (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Burnt House is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt House Cantwell (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Cantwell is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantwell Petroleum (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Petroleum is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petroleum Cokeleys (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Cokeleys is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokeleys Lawford (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Lawford is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawford Cairo (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Slab (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Slab is located in Ritchie County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Wirt County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Lucile (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Lucile is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucile Creston (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Creston is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston Burning Springs (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Burning Springs is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Springs Peewee (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Peewee is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peewee Palestine (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Palestine is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palestine Elizabeth (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Windy (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Windy is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windy Newark (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Newark is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark Greencastle (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Greencastle is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greencastle Freeport (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Freeport is located in Wirt County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeport Wood County
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Leachtown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Leachtown is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leachtown Slate (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Slate is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mineral Acres (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Mineral Acres is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Acres Mineral Wells (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Kanawha (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Kanawha is located in Wood County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawha Meigs County (OH)
The following are listed by their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Portland (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Spiller (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Spiller is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spiller Plants (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Plants is located in Meigs County (OH) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plants
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Holswade Addition, see our County-by-County Page for Holswade Addition .
Cemeteries Near Holswade Addition ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Holswade Addition.
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 Holswade Addition - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Holswade Addition covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Spencer Memorial Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Eventide Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Wright Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
McKown Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Bower Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Ward Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Millerville Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Miller Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Carpenter Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Wilson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Triplett Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Tanner Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (776 more) ...
Craig Hill Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Weaver Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Galahoe 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 Holswade Addition in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Holswade Addition.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Holswade Addition, with the one closest to Holswade Addition listed first.
Spencer (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Schilling (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Schilling is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schilling Speed (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Speed is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speed Walnut Grove (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Walnut Grove is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove Triplett (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Triplett is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triplett Reedyville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Reedyville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedyville Millard (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Millard is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millard Clarence (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Clarence is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarence Gandeeville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Gandeeville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gandeeville Buffalolick ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Buffalolick is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalolick Peniel (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Peniel is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peniel Zona (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Zona is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zona Continue List (17 more) ...
Pink (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Pink is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pink Rocksdale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Rocksdale is located in Calhoun County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocksdale Countsville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Countsville is located in Roane County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countsville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Holswade Addition. See our List of 1890's Communities around Holswade Addition .
Newspapers Published in Holswade Addition ...
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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Holswade Addition.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Holswade Addition, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Holswade Addition.
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 Holswade Addition:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Roane County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Braxton County Calhoun County Clay County Gilmer County Jackson County Kanawha County Mason County Putnam County Ritchie County Wirt County Wood County Meigs County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Holswade Addition. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Roane County: https://www.roanewv.com/
The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 Holswade Addition, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Holswade Addition) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.