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Meigs County, Ohio
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Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Meigs County Courthouse 100 W. 2nd St. Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 Meigs County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent Counties: Formed from Athens and Gallia Counties 21 January 1819.^[1]
• County Seat: Pomeroy
• Neighboring Counties: Meigs County, Ohio residents may also have records in ^[2]Athens (north) · Hocking (northwest) · Mason County, West Virginia (south) · Jackson County, West Virginia (southeast) · Vinton (west) · Gallia (southwest)  · Wood County, West Virginia (east)

Boundary Changes

See an interactive map of Meigs County boundary changes.

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Business Records and Commerce

Cemeteries

For a list of cemeteries in Meigs County, OH, click here.

Census

Church Records

Court Records

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

Land and Property

Maps

Military

Civil War

The following Civil War battle was fought in Meigs County.

• July 19, 1863 = Buffington Island, also known as St. Georges Creek^[3]

Map showing Civil War battles in Ohio.

- Civil War service men from Meigs 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 Meigs County.

- 116th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies B and G

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Meigs County Courthouse
100 E 2nd Street
Pomeroy, OH 45769
Phone: 740.992.5290

Probate Judge has birth, marriage, death and probate records;
Clerk Court has divorce and court records from 1819; County
Recorder has land rec^[1]

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Libraries

Museums

Societies

• Meigs County, Ohio Historical Society

Taxation

Vital Records

Birth

Marriage

Death

Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch. Records include such information as birth date of deceased, city, county, and state of death, name of spouse if married, names of parents, maiden name of mother, name of informant, if deceased was single, married, windowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county. USGenWeb Meigs County
• Family History Library Catalog

Places

Populated Places

Cities and towns:

Alfred | Antiquity | Apple Grove |   Bald Knobs  | Bashan |  Bradbury |  Bucks Mill | Burlingham |  Carpenter  |  Chester |  Danville  | Darwin  | Dexter  | Dorcas  |  Dyesville| East Letart  |  Eden | Five Points |  Flora |  Great Bend  | Hanesville  | Harrisonville | Hazael  | Hemlock Grove  | Hobson  | Hobson Junction  | Horner Hill  | Joppa |  Keno | Kingsbury  | Langsville  | Letart Falls  | Lima  | Lincoln Heights  | Long Bottom  | Meigs |Merritt  | Middleport  | Midway  | Minersville  | Mount Blanco  | Nease Settlement | Oldtown  | Flats  |  Pageville  | Pinegrove  | Plants  | Point Rock  | Pomeroy  | Portland |  Racine  | Reedsville  | Rock Springs  | Rolandus  | Rushville  | Rutland  | Salem Center Shade River  | Silver Run  | Snowville  | Spiller  | Success  | Sumner  | Syracuse  | Tuppers Plains  | Valley Ford  | Welsh  | Welshtown  | Wolfpen

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), [FHL book 973 D27e 2002].
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Meigs County, Ohio" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_County,_Ohio (accessed 10 May 2012).
3. ↑ Heritage Preservation Services, Civil War Battle Summaries by State, (accessed 9 August, 2012)