Paulding County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Paulding County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Shelby, Darke, Williams, and Wood Counties in 1820 (1839).
 * County Seat: Paulding
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Defiance (north)·Van Wert (south)·Putnam (east)· Allen County, Indiana (west)

Ohio Digital Collections

Parent County
1820--Paulding County was created 12 February 1820 from Darke County. County seat: Paulding

Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Paulding County boundary changes.

Neighboring Counties

 * Allen County, Indiana
 * Defiance
 * Putnam
 * Van Wert

Cemeteries

 * Kingery Cemetery, Brown BillionGraves

Military

 * Civil War Civil War service men from Paulding 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 Paulding County.


 * - 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company I

Vital Records
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.

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.