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Guide to Whitley County Indiana genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Whitley County, Indiana
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Location of Indiana in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	February, 1835
County Seat	Columbia City
Courthouse
Address	Whitley County Courthouse 101 W Van Buren Street Columbia City, IN 46725 Phone: 219.248.3102 County Website
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Historical Facts

Parent County

1835--Whitley County was created 7 February 1835from ElkhartandAllen Counties.
County seat:Columbia City ^[1]

Boundary Changes

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Allen
• Huntington
• Kosciusko
• Noble
• Wabash

Record Loss

Whitley County, Indiana Resources

Bible Records

Biographies

Cemeteries

The Genealogy Center at Allen County Public Library (Indiana) has a number of on-line cemetery databases for Whitley County.

• Albright Evangelical Church Cemetery
• Bayless Cemetery
• Boggs Cemetery
• Burch-Ditton Cemetery
• Broxson Cemetery BillionGraves, spelled 'Broxon'
• Cleveland Cemetery
• Coesse Lutheran Cemetery
• Compton-Oak Grove Cemetery
• Concord (Concordia) Cemetery
• County Line Lutheran Cemetery
• Eberhard Cemetery
• Garrison Cemetery
• Grumlich Cemetery
• Hell's Half Acre Cemetery
• Hopkins Cemetery
• Jacob Hively Cemetery
• Jeffries Cemetery
• Kelsey Family Cemetery
• Mitchell Cemetery
• Nolt Cemetery
• Otis Miner Cemetery
• Ream-Bethel Cemetery
• Rousseau-Pence Cemetery
• St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery
• St. Peter Lutheran Church Cemetery
• Samuel Leaman Cemetery
• Samuel Miner Cemetery
• Scott Cemetery
• Scott Keister Cemetery
• Shank Cemetery
• South Park Cemetery
• Stough Cemetery
• Thompson Cemetery
• Universalist Church Cemetery
• Wigent-Taylor Cemetery

Other Cemetery Listings

• Genealogical Society of Whitley County Cemeteries List
• Find A Grave Whitley County Cemetery List
• Find A Grave Whitley County Cemetery Map
• Photos of Tombstones in Jefferies Cemetery, Smith Township (free, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Census Records

For tips on accessing Whitley County, Indiana census records online, see: Indiana Census.

• Index to Defective, Dependent & Delinquent Census for Whitley County, Indiana (1880) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Church Records

Court Records

Directories

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic and Religious Groups

Gazetteers

Genealogies

History

Local Histories

• Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, and Charles Blanchard. 1970.Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical, illustrated. (Evansville, Ind: Unigraphic, inc.) 977.27 H2g FHL US/CAN Book FHL COLLECTIONother library INTERNET ARCHIVE FamilySearch Books Online
  

• Gradeless, Donald E. 1979. Index, History of Whitley County Indiana, Weston A. Goodspeed Charles Blanchard.([s.l.]: Gradeless.) 977.275 H22i FHL US/CAN BookFHL Collectionother librariesINTERNET ARCHIVRGoogle books

Land and Property

Maps

• Simple Map of Townships of Whitley County
  
• David Rumsey Map of Whitley County 1876 Shows Townships

Migration

Military Records

War of 1812

• Civil War

Civil War service men from Whitley County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Whitley County.

• 4th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
• 12th Regiment,Indiana Cavalry, Company I
• 13th Regiment,Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company A
• 14th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
• 23rd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
• 30th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company C
• 74th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company B
• 88th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies E and K
• 100th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 152th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies C and I

Civil War Books

• "War History" Chapter 4 in Goodspeed, Weston Arthur, and Charles Blanchard. 1970.Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical, illustrated. (Evansville, Ind: Unigraphic, inc.) (page 76-97, Regiment ),977.27 H2g FHL US/CAN Book FHL COLLECTIONother library INTERNET ARCHIVEFamilySearch Books Online

World War I

World War II

Newspapers

Obituaries

Occupation

Periodicals

Probate Records

Public Records

Repositories

Archives

County Courthouse

Whitley County Courthouse
101 W Van Buren Street
Columbia City, IN 46725
Phone: 219.248.3102

County Clerk has marriage records from 1836
divorce and court records from 1853 and probate records.
County Health Department has birth and death records from 1882.
County Recorder has land records. ^[2]

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Libraries

Museums

Societies

See Web Sites below, Genealogical Society of Whitley County

School Records

• Students and Teachers of Columbia City High School (1929) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Taxation

Vital Records

• Indiana State Digital Archives for Death, E-Publication, Institution, Military, Misc Historical, Naturalization Records can be searched by person name (accessed 26 May 2011)
  

Birth Records

Marriage Records

• Indiana Marriages, 1802-1892 - Ancestry.con $
  

• Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992-FamilySearch
  

• Indiana Marriage, 1811-1959-FamilySearch
  

Death Records

• Indiana, Death Index, 1882-1920 -FamilySearch
  

Voter Registration

Whitley County, Indiana Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Whitley County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
• Genealogical Society of Whitley County
• INGenWeb Project Whitley County   (This is the USGenWeb project site for Whitley County)
• USGenWeb Archives Whitley County
  

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
2. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Whitley County, Indiana 218 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.

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