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 Parsley (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 Parsley. 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 and doctors 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.
Parsley is located in Mingo 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 Mingo County : Martin (KY) , Pike (KY) , Buchanan (VA) , Lincoln , Logan , McDowell , Wayne & Wyoming .
Below are the counties that are near Parsley. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Parsley:
Mingo County (The home county of Parsley)
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Dingess (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Dingess is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dingess Myrtle (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Myrtle is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle Delbarton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Chattaroy (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Chattaroy is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chattaroy Greyeagle (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Greyeagle is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greyeagle Kermit (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Williamson (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Red Jacket (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Red Jacket is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Jacket Matewan (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Sprigg (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Sprigg is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprigg Musick (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Musick is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musick Blackberry City (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Blackberry City is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackberry City Pie (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Pie is located in Mingo County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pie Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Manila (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Manila is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila Havana (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Havana is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana Hewett (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Hewett is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hewett Clothier (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Clothier is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clothier Ottawa (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Ottawa is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa Jeffrey (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Jeffrey is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffrey Ramage (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Ramage is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramage Turtle Creek (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Turtle Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle Creek Greenview (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Greenview is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenview Low Gap (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Low Gap is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Low Gap Powell Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Powell Creek is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell Creek Secoal (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Secoal is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Secoal Washington Heights (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Washington Heights is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Heights Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Harts (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Wewanta (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Wewanta is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wewanta Spears ‑ Historic(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Spears is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears Kinder ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Kinder is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinder Palermo (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Palermo is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palermo Myra (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Myra is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myra Sheridan (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Sheridan is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Alkol (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Alkol is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alkol Yawkey (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Yawkey is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yawkey Sweetland (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Sweetland is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetland East ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
East is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Hamlin (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
West Hamlin (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
West Hamlin is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Hamlin Population from the 2020 Census: 689 people
Logan County
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Troy Town (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Troy Town is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy Town Whirlwind (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Whirlwind is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whirlwind Holden (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Holden is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holden Hedgeview (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Hedgeview is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedgeview Thompson Town (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Thompson Town is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson Town Whitman (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Logan (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Peach Creek (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Peach Creek is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Creek West Logan (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Wilkinson (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Mitchell Heights (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Mitchell Heights is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell Heights Population from the 2020 Census: 274 people
Switzer (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Switzer is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Switzer Omar (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
McDowell County
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Wyoming City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Wyoming City is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming City Panther (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Panther is located in McDowell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panther Wayne County
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Wilsondale (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Wilsondale is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsondale Stonecoal (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Stonecoal is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecoal Doane (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Doane is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doane Cove Gap (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Cove Gap is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Gap Dunlow (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Dunlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlow Kiahsville (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Kiahsville is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiahsville Nestlow (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Nestlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nestlow Effie (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Effie is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Effie East Lynn (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
East Lynn is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lynn Armilda (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Armilda is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armilda Echo (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Echo is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo Fort Gay (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Fort Gay is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Gay Population from the 2020 Census: 682 people
Mineral Springs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Mineral Springs is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Springs Wyoming County
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Cub City (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Cub City is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cub City Uno (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Uno is located in Wyoming County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uno Floyd County (KY)
Tram (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Tram is located in Floyd County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tram Johnson County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Whitehouse (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Whitehouse is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitehouse Butcher Hollow (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Butcher Hollow is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butcher Hollow Williamsport (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Williamsport is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsport Lowmansville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Lowmansville is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowmansville Meally (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Meally is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meally Nero (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Nero is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nero Thelma (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Thelma is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thelma Tutor Key (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Tutor Key is located in Johnson County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tutor Key Van Lear (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Lawrence County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Clifford (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Clifford is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifford Maynard ‑ Historic(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Maynard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard Peach Orchard (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Peach Orchard is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard Patrick (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Patrick is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patrick Richardson (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Richardson is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson Gallup ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Gallup is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup Ben Bow (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Ben Bow is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ben Bow Torchlight ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Torchlight is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torchlight Georges Creek (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Georges Creek is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georges Creek Ulysses ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Ulysses is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulysses Bumblebee ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Bumblebee is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bumblebee Walbridge ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Walbridge is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walbridge Charley (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Charley is located in Lawrence County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charley Martin County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Lovely (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Lovely is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovely Beauty (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Beauty is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beauty Hode (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Hode is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hode Pilgrim (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Pilgrim is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Warfield (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Inez (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Debord (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Tomahawk (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Tomahawk is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tomahawk Pike County (KY)
The following are listed by their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
South Williamson (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Toler (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Toler is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toler Buskirk (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Buskirk is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buskirk Forest Hills (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Forest Hills is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Hills Hardy (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Hardy is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardy Belfry (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
McCarr (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Canada (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Huddy (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Huddy is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huddy Stone (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Stone is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Sidney (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Freeburn (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Freeburn is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeburn McAndrews (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
McAndrews is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAndrews Buchanan County (VA)
Kelsa (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Kelsa is located in Buchanan County (VA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelsa
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Parsley, see our County-by-County Page for Parsley .
Cemeteries Near Parsley ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Parsley.
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 Parsley - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Parsley covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Newsome Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Wellman Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Gap Hollow Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Evans Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Evans Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Newsome Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Gilman Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Alexanders Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Damron Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Lackey Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Sturgell Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Marcum Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (899 more) ...
Hanna Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Hanna Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> Dingess . Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #78577 <3>
Harden Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Sturgell Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
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 Parsley in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Parsley.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Parsley, with the one closest to Parsley listed first.
Pilgrim (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Pilgrim is located in Martin County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Oilville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Oilville is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oilville Stonecoal (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Stonecoal is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonecoal Warfield (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Rural (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Rural is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rural Chapmanville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Fourteen ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Fourteen is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourteen Lake (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Lake is located in Logan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Dunlow (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Dunlow is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlow Cove Gap (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Cove Gap is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Gap Canada (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Kiahsville (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Kiahsville is located in Wayne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiahsville Continue List (13 more) ...
Inez (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Man (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Pinsonfork (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Pinsonfork is located in Pike County (KY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinsonfork
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Parsley. See our List of 1890's Communities around Parsley .
Newspapers Published in Parsley ...
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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Parsley.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Parsley, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Parsley.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Parsley:
Websites specific to West Virginia Pages specific to Mingo County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Lincoln County Logan County McDowell County Wayne County Wyoming County Floyd County Johnson County Lawrence County Martin County Pike County Buchanan County Cemetery Information and Directories for West Virginia Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Parsley. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
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. 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- Parsley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 . 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 Parsley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.