Emery County, Utah Genealogy

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County Courthouse
Emery County Courthouse P.O. Box 629 Castle Dale, UT 84513-0629 Phone: 435-381-2139 FAX: 435-381-5183

History
Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com: accessed 3 March 2010), "Emery County, Utah."

Parent County

 * 1880--Emery County was created 12 February 1880 from Sanpete and Sevier Counties.

County seat: Castle Dale

Populated Places

 * Cities: Castle Dale | Cleveland | Elmo | Emery | Ferron | Green River | Huntington | Lawrence | Molen | Moore | Orangeville

Ghost Towns

 * Cities: Connellsville | Desert Lake | Mohrland | Victor | Wilsonville | Woodside |

Neighboring Counties
Carbon | Grand | San Juan | Sanpete | Sevier | Uintah

Cemeteries
Castle Dale City Cemetery 750 North Center Street Castle Dale, Utah 84513

Clawson Cemetery Highway 10 (5 miles south of Clawson) Clawson, Utah 84516

Cleveland Town Cemetery 300 North 600 East Cleveland, Utah 84518

Elmo Cemetery 200 South 500 East Elmo, Utah 84521

Emery Town Cemetery 75 South Center Street Emery, Utah 84522

Ferron City Cemetery 300 East 200 North (Cemetery Road) Ferron, Utah 84523

Green River Cemetery Green River, Utah 84525

Huntington City Cemetery 400 West 575 North Huntington, Utah 84528

Lawrence Cemetery Cemetery Road Lawrence, Utah 84528

Molen Cemetery Molen Road Ferron, Utah 84523

Muddy Creek Cemetery Emery, Utah 84513

Orangeville Cemetery 1300 West Cemetery Road Orangeville, Utah 84537

Ridge Cemetery Utah 84513

Tucker Family Cemetery Airport Road Utah

Victor Cemetery Utah 84513

Wilsonville Cemetery

Woodside Cemetery Woodside, Utah

The Emery County Cemetery Information page on the Emery County Website contains links to burial information and maps for the following cemeteries: Castle Dale, Clawson, Cleveland, Desert Lake, Elgin, Elmo, Emery, Ferron, Green River Pioneer, Huntington, Lawrence, Molen, Muddy Creek, Old Emery, Orangeville, Ridge, Tucker Family, Victor, Wilsonville, and Woodside.

Find A Grave.com has burial information for the following Emery County cemeteries: Castle Dale, Clawson, Cleveland,Crandall Canyon Mine, Elmo, Emery, Ferron, Green River, Huntington, Lawrence, Molen, Muddy Creek, Old Emery, Orangeville, Ridge, Victor, and Woodside.

The Utah Burial Search database on the Utah State History Website contains burial information for the following Emery County cemeteries: Castle Dale, Clawson, Cleveland, Desert Lake, Elmo, Emery, Ferron, Green River, Huntington, Lawrence, Molen, Muddy Creek, Orangeville, Ridge, Tucker Family, Victor, Wilsonville, and Woodside.

Census

 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records

Castle Dale | Clawson | Cleveland | Elmo | Emery | Ferron | Green River | Huntington  Huntington 1 | Huntington 2 | Lawrence | Mohrland | Molen | Orangeville | Rochester      Victor

Local Histories
Allen Kent Powell, ed., Emery County: Reflections on Its Past and Future (Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State Historical Society, 1979).

Edward A. Geary, A History of Emery County (Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Historical Society, 1981).

Emery County Historical Society, Emery County, 1880-1980 ([Castle Dale, Utah]: Emery County Historical Society, 1981).

History of Sanpete and Emery Counties Utah: With Sketches of Cities, Towns and Villages, Chronology of Important Events, Records of Indian Wars, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens(Ogden, Utah: W.H. Lever, 1898).

Stella McElprang, comp.,Castle Valley: A History of Emery County ([Utah]:Emery County Company of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1949).

Newspapers

 * One major resouce for newspapers throughout Utah is the University of Utah's Utah Digital Newspapers project "with more than 600,000 pages of digitized Utah historical newspapers." Two newspapers from Emery County are included in this digital project, the Emery County Progess and Green River Journal. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research.


 * The Emery County Progress is a weekly newspaper published every Tuesday. The paper has been published since 1900. In 1957, the name of the newspaper was changed to the Emery County Progress Leader after merging with the Green River Leader. In 1977, the newspaper resumed the name Emery County Progress. The online edition of the paper is free to the general public. The Website's archives currently date back to the year 2001.

Vital Records
Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 - are available online at Family Search Record Search Pilot. Utah requires a death certificate before a burial is completed. A death certificate may contain information as to the name of the deceased, date of death, and place of death, as well as the age, birthdate, parents, gender, marital status, spouse and place of residence.

Emery County Marriage Licenses, 1888 - Current are available online at Emery County Online Services. The database is fully searchable and contains digital images of the actual marriage license. A marriage license may contain information such as the name of the bride and groom, their ages, residence, date and place of marriage, and names of parent or guardian, witnesses, and marriage officiator.

Societies and Libraries
Emery County Library 115 North 100 East Castle Dale, Utah 84513-9999 Phone: 435-381-2554 Fax:

Family History Centers
Castle Dale, Utah 560 E Highway 29 Castle Dale, Emery, Utah, United States Phone: 435-381-2899 Hours: M, 10am-2pm; T-Th 9am-9pm Ferron, Utah 35 W 200 N (Hwy 10) Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States Phone: 435-384-3288 Hours: M-Th 10am-3pm; Tues. 7pm-9pm; Sat or other by appt. Green River, Utah 101 North Clark St Green River, Emery, Utah, United States Phone: 435-564-3582 Hours: Call for appt. Huntington, Utah 240 N Main St Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States Phone: 435-687-9090 Hours: M 10am-4pm; T 10am-1pm, 6pm-9pm; W 10am-1pm Th 6pm-9pm

Web Sites

 * The Emery County UT GenWeb Project, a member of The UTGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project


 * Family History Library Catalog