Marion County, Indiana Genealogy

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History


The county is named after "The Swamp Fox" Revolutionary War Brigadier General Francis Marion(c1732-1795).

Parent County
1821--Marion County was created 31 December 1821 from unorganized territory. County seat: Indianapolis

Neighboring Counties

 * Boone
 * Hamilton
 * Hancock
 * Hendricks
 * Johnson
 * Morgan
 * Shelby

Cemeteries

 * Marion County Cemeteries - USGenWeb


 * Cemeteries for Marion County - Linkpendium


 * Crown Hill Cemetery


 * LDS Cemetery Records


 * 1) Vol. 21 page 73 - Old Battleground Cemetery
 * 2) Vol. 21 page 84 - Huffman Cemetery, Washington Township

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Indianapolis
 * Indianapolis Dist
 * Indianapolis N.
 * Indianapolis S.

Funeral Homes
Jacobs Brothers Funeral Home (digitized records)

Local Histories

 * History of Marion County Linkpendium


 * SULGROVE, B. R. (1884). History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. (Philadelphia, L.H. Everts &amp; Co.) FHL US/CAN Film 934914 Item 1    other libraries  INTERNET ARCHIVE

Maps

 * Maps and Gazetteers - Linkpendium

Military

 * Military Record and Histories -  Linkpendium

Civil War

Civil War service men from Marion 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 Marion County.


 * 1st Regiment, Indiana Heavy Artillery, Companies B, L, and M
 * 1st Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company K
 * 3rd Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
 * 4th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company A
 * 5th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry (90th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers), Company M
 * 7th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Companies C, D, G, and H
 * 7th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company I
 * 8th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company H
 * 9th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Companies A, F, H, I, and L
 * 10th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company K
 * 11th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, B, E, H, K, and Reorganized Companies A, B, E, F, H, and K
 * 12th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company A
 * 13th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, H, and Reorganized Companies D, and E
 * 14th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
 * 16th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Companies F, I, and K
 * 19th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies D, and F
 * 20th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
 * 26th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies E, and I
 * 30th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company A
 * 35th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company A
 * 40th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company G
 * 47th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company G
 * 52nd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies B, K, and Reorganized Company E
 * 70th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, E, and F
 * 79th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, C, and F
 * 99th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company H
 * 100th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company K
 * 104th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, All of Companies A-H
 * 106th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company K
 * 107th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, All of Companies A-M
 * 110th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company B
 * 113th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, All of Companies A-I
 * 123rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company E
 * 124th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies C, and D
 * 132nd Regiment, Indiana Infantry (100 days, 1864), Company A, B, C, F, and K
 * 148th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies A, C, and G
 * 156th Regiment, Indiana Infantry Company A
 * 28th US Colored Troops, Companies A, B, C, E, G, and Addition Recruits for Colored Troops

Vital Records
Index to Marriage Record, Marion County was compiled by the Indiana Works Progress Administration in 1939. Vol. I = 1822-1855. Vol. II = 1856-1865. Vol. III = 1866-1870. Vol. IV = 1871-1875. Vol. V = 1876-1880. Vol. VI = 1881-1890. These volumes are available at the public library in Indianapolis and at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne.

Marion County, Indiana Early Marriages, 1822-1836 by Colleen Alice Ridlen, and Marriage Records, Marion County, Indiana, 1822-1843, compiled by the DAR are two additional indexes of the county's earliest marriages.

The Allen County Public Library has a 169-volume set of Marion County marriages for 1929 through June 1944 titled Marriage Records, Marion County, Indiana: Ministers' Returns for the Board of Health. An index to the 1929 and 1930 volumes of these records also is available at ACPL.

A searchable database of Marion County Marriages, 1925-2006 is available at the Marion County Circuit Court's website.

Societies and Libraries

 * Williams Creek |

Web Sites

 * The Marion County IN GenWeb Project, a member of The INGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * Marion County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Marion County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)