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Fayette County, Indiana
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Location of Indiana in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	December 28, 1818
County Seat	Connersville
Courthouse
Address	Fayette County Courthouse 401 N Central Ave; PO Box 607 Connersville, IN 47331-0607 Ph. 765.825.1813

County Courthouse

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Fayette County Courthouse
401 N Central Ave; PO Box 607
Connersville, IN 47331-0607
Ph. 765.825.1813

Clerk Circuit Court has marriage, probate, divorce and court
records from 1819 and naturalization records from 1924. ^[1]

History

The county is named after Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834).^[2]

Barrows, Frederick Irving, History of Fayette County, Indiana :(Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen) her people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families, 977.2623 H2b FHLCollection INTERNET ARCHIVE web site

Parent County

1818--Fayette County was created 28 December 1818 from Wayne and Franklin Counties.
County seat: Connersville ^[3]

• Franklin
• Henry
• Rush
• Union
• Wayne

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

Resources

Cemeteries

Census

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

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

Church

Court

Directories

• Directory of Businesses in Fayette County, Indiana (1858) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Land

Local Histories

• Every Name Index to History of Fayette County, Indiana.  Every Name Index compiled by Cathy L. O'Connor, 2007; original text by Frederic Irving Barrows, Editor-in-Chief, 1917; reproduction by Unigraphic, Inc., 1973.  EveryNameIndex.com

• Biographical and Genealogical History of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties, Indiana. (Indianapolis, Ind: Frederic Luther Co, 1980).977.26 H2b  977.26 H2b v. 2 FHL US/CAN Book FHL Collection  other libraries    vol. 1 INTERNET ARCHIVE
  

Maps

Military

Civil War

Civil War service men from Fayette 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 Fayette County

• 2nd Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company L
• 3rd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery,
• 5th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry (90th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers), Company C
• 9th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company E
• 9th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company C
• 11th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized I, and K
• 16th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company E, and Reorganized Company A
• 20th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company C
• 36th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company H
• 91st Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company I
• 104th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company K
• 111th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies C, and L
• 124th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company A
• 139th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (100 days, 1864), Company F
• 144th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company K
• 147th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company I
• 148th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company H
• 28th US Colored Troops, Addition Recruits for Colored Troops
  

Civil War Book

Barrows, Frederick Irving, Chapter 10, "Military Annals," History of Fayette County, Indiana :(Indianapolis, Ind. : B.F. Bowen),  page 301-323, 977.2623 H2b FHLCollection Iniernet Archive 

Newspapers

Probate

School Records

• Students of Bentonville, Fayette County, Indiana (1925) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)
• Teachers of Bentonville, Fayette County, Indiana (1925) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Taxation

Vital Records

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

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

• Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992  - FamilySearch
  

• Indiana Marriage, 1811-1959  - FamilySearch
  

• Indiana, Death Index, 1882-1920 - FamilySearch

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers 

Web Sites

• EveryNameIndex.com   Free online genealogy indexes for those big old county histories.
• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog
• Fayette County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Elkhart County, Indiana 212 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ "Fayette County, Indiana," Wikipedia.
3. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).