Help with place name please - Ohio- COMPLETED- THANK YOU.

[bevbee]

Can anyone help me with this place name from a letter written by my ancestor George Grindley, home to his family in Wales please?

He says his nephew lives in a place called **** Ohio. It looks like Heatly to me, but I can't find that place anywhere.

Any suggestions please?

Many thanks,

Bev.

[aghadowey]

It does look like Heatly but can't find that in my U.S. atlas, etc.
There is a place in Ohio called Heath (outside Newark and east of Columbus). Any idea where in Ohio it could be?

[Ohio Susan]

Heatley is a discontinued post office, open 1881 to 1892

Heatley, Gallia County, Ohio (later called BIDWELL)

Bidwell:
Named for an 1892 candidate for President of the U.S., John Bidwell. One source says it was originally called Heatley and changed to Bidwell around 1882

Name: Bidwell Post Office
Class: Post Office
History: Established as Heatley Post Office on 14 February 1881, name changed to Bidwell on 28 September 1892.
Citation: Gallagher, John S. and Alan H. Patera. The Post Offices of Ohio. Burtonsville, Maryland: The Depot, 1979. p98
Entry Date: 17-Aug-1992


http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn

maybe near the village of Raccoon in 1880

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=38.91861&lon=-82.29917

present day

Susan

[Ohio Susan]

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp

use
Lat: 38.9167  decimal degrees
Long: -82.2833  decimal degrees

If you zoom to +3 you will see there is a Heatley Rd in Bidwell

zoom out 4 from the bottom you can see the relationship to Cincinnati

Susan

[bevbee]

Thank you so much - that explains it then!

I wondered whether it could be Heath, but it didn't look like it in the letter which was written in 1890, so this ties it in perfectly.

Many thanks,

Bev.