Crawford County, Ohio Genealogy

United States Ohio Crawford County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Delaware, Seneca, Sandusky, and Marion Counties 12 February 1820.
 * County Seat: Bucyrus
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Seneca and Huron (north)·Richland (east)·Marion and Morrow (south)·Wyandot (west)

Boundary Changes

 * 1835: Six miles on the western side was added from the Wyndot Indian Reservation.


 * 1842: The last of the Wyandot Reservation was purchased and added to the county.


 * 1845: Wyandot County was formed from an 18-mile strip from western Crawford County. A 4-by-20-mile strip was added on the eastern side from Richland County. A 2-by-16-mile strip was added on the south from Marion County.


 * 1848: A 1-by-7-mile strip on the county's southeast was given to Morrow County at that county's formation. This finalized the boundaries of Crawford County.

See an interactive map of Crawford County boundary changes.

Cemeteries
Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

Catholic

 * 1796–2004 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection includes images of parish registers recording the events of baptism, first communion, confirmation, marriage, and death in the Diocese of Toledo (Ohio), Roman Catholic Church. These records are accessed by browsing the images by county. In addition to traditional parish registers, this collection includes miscellaneous cemetery records, Books of the Elect, Professions of Faith, Sick Call registers, etc.

Military

 * Civil War Civil War servicemen from Crawford 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 Crawford County.


 * - 1st Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery (a battery is like a company in an artillery regiment)

Newspapers
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Ohio, Crawford County Obituaries (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Courthouse
Crawford County Courthouse 112 E Mansfield Street Bucyrus, OH 44820 Phone: 419.562.2766 City and County Health Department has birth and death records from 1908; Probate Judge has birth and death records 1867-1908, marriage and probate records from 1831; County recorder has land records; Clerk Court has divorce and court records from 1834

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Clear Fork Ohio Family History Center (Galion)

Death

 * Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch. Records include such information as birthdate 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; and occupation of deceased.

Populated Places

 * Bucyrus
 * Galion
 * Crestline
 * New Washington
 * Leesville
 * Oceola
 * New Winchester
 * Tiro
 * North Robinson
 * Sulphur Springs
 * Broken Sword
 * Chatfield
 * Lykens

Townships (Current) [[Image:Downloaded633961178614216871 crawford townships tn.gif|frame|right|508x526px]]

 * Auburn
 * Bucyrus
 * Chatfield
 * Cranberry
 * Dallas
 * Holmes
 * Jackson
 * Jefferson
 * Liberty
 * Lykens
 * Polk
 * Sandusky
 * Texas
 * Tod
 * Vernon
 * Whetstone