Whitley County, Indiana Genealogy

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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

Parent County
1835--Whitley County was created 7 February 1835 from Elkhart and Allen Counties. County seat: Columbia City 

Neighboring Counties

 * Allen
 * Huntington
 * Kosciusko
 * Noble
 * Wabash

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

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

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  other library  INTERNET ARCHIVE


 * Gradeless, Donald E. 1979. Index, History of Whitley County Indiana, Weston A. Goodspeed &amp; Charles Blanchard. ([s.l.]: Gradeless.) 977.275 H22i FHL US/CAN Book    other libraries  INTERNET ARCHIVR  Google books

Maps

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

Military

 * 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, Reoganized 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  other library  INTERNET ARCHIVE

School Records

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

Vital Records

 * Indiana State Digital Achivesfor 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

See Web Sites below, Genealogical Society of Whitley County

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * 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
 * USGenWeb Archives Whitley County