How Far?

For your “brick wall” ancestor, do you know (or have any idea) how far they lived from:

• the county seat?
• the nearest church of their denomination?
• the nearest place they could get supplies or transact necessary business?
• the nearest “big city?”
• their nearest neighbor?
• the cemetery?
• the location where the nearest newspaper was published?
• a major river?

The list here is not exclusive. If you’ve got no idea of the answers to these questions, determining those answers may help you solve your problem.

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