Tooele County, Utah Genealogy

United States Utah Tooele County

County Courthouse
Tooele County Courthouse 47 South Main Street Tooele, Ut 84074 Phone: 435-843-3140

County Clerk has birth and death records 1897-1905 and marriage records from 1887, Clerk District Court has divorce, probate and court records County Recorder has land records

Parent Counties
was created March 3, 1852 as an original county from Utah Territory lands.

Neighboring Counties
is surrounded by: Box Elder | Davis | Juab | Salt Lake | Utah | Weber | Nevada counties: Elko | White Pine

Biography

 * public libraries.

Cemeteries

 * public libraries.

Tooele county cemeteries at the Utah State Historical site

LDS Cemetery Records US Vol. 21 page 188 - Mercur Cemetery

USGenWeb Archives Tooele County, Utah gives names of individuals buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery from 1849 - 1867 and later removed to the New Cemetery.

USGenWeb Archives Tooele County, Utah provides information on the Woodmen of the World burials

Individual cemeteries

BillionGraves


 * Chief Green Jacket Grave, Vernon
 * Iosepa Cemetery*
 * Stockton Cemetery, Stockton
 * Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele

Note about Iosepa Cemetery* This cemetery is some distance from any town, and may have been associated with a settlement by the same name. It is in the next valley west of Tooele Valley, where most of today's popuation is. To reach it, you have to use Skull Valley Road or State Highway U-196. However, that number may not be on signs, as this road was assigned to get a number by the state legislature during a bitter legal dispute over a proposed nuclear waste repository somewhat further south of this cemetery's location in the early 2000s, and hence not even the freeway exit sign off I-80 may have this number on it.

Census

 * public libraries.

The 1850 [1851], 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of Tooele County are available online. For tips on accessing census records online, see Utah Census. If you're having trouble finding your ancestors in national indexes, try checking local indexes. Created by experts familiar with the area's families, these indexes are often transcribed more accurately than nationwide indexes.

See Utah Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book for more information about statewide printed indexes.


 * 1850 (1851)
 * 1856
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

USGenWeb Archives of Tooele County, Utahprovides the 1850 census records

Church History

 * public libraries.

Church Records

 * public libraries.

LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Benmore
 * Burmeister
 * Clover
 * Deep Creek
 * Erda
 * Grantsville
 * Grantsville 1
 * Grantsville 2
 * Iosepa
 * Lake Point
 * Lake View
 * Mercur
 * Ophir
 * St. John
 * Stockton
 * Tod Park
 * Tooele
 * Tooele 1
 * Tooele 2
 * Tooele 3
 * Tooele 4
 * Tooele 5
 * Tooele 6
 * Tooele 7
 * Tooele 8
 * Tooele 9
 * Tooele 10
 * Tooele N.
 * Tooele S.
 * Vernon
 * Wendover

Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Tooele County Wards and Branches can be found on film and are located at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the Family History Library Catalog at https://www.familysearch.org/. Or by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. (FHL book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507). These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.

Court Records

 * public libraries.

Directories

 * public libraries.

Emigration and Immigration

 * public libraries.

Guardianship

 * public libraries.

History
Interesting facts This county was originally spelled "Tuilla" and is still pronounced that way by locals.


 * public libraries.

Wendover Air Force Base, now closed, was the training base of the Enola Gay crew which dropped the first atomic weapon in 1945.

History Timeline
NOTE: Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Wikipedia for Tooele County.


 * 1849. Mormons established the first white settlement in the area.
 * 1850 January. Tooele County formed as one of six original counties in Deseret, later called Utah Territory
 * 1850's–1860's. Troubles between white settlers and Goshute Indians.
 * 1852. March 3 - Tooele County was created as an original county.
 * 1852. By this year, Grantsville, Batesville, and Pine Canyon (later called Lincoln) were settled by Mormons.
 * 1855. Richville named as county seat.
 * 1861. Territory of Nevada created, establishing the permanent western border of Tooele County.
 * 1861. County seat moved to Tooele City.
 * 1864. Gold, silver, lead, and zinc were discovered in Tooele County, spurring an influx of non-Mormons to the area.
 * Before 1874. The county courthouse was built.
 * 1874–1879. The Republic of Tooele was established by non-Mormon politicians. Only taxpayers were allowed to vote, and there were complaints of fraud. The recorder's office was even jeopardized!
 * 1876. Territorial legislature passed a bill requiring voter registration and women's suffrage. Tooele County and it's political problems earlier were likely the spur to this law.

A History of Tooele County available online at Marriott Library Digital Collections.

Land and Property

 * public libraries.

Migration
Early migration routes to and from for emigrant settlers included:


 * California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California
 * Mormon Trail 1846 to 1869 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah
 * Mormon Trail to Southern California 1847 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California
 * Central Overland Trail 1859-1869 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Carson City, Nevada (and usually on to northern California)

Military

 * public libraries.

Minorities - History

 * public libraries.

Native Races - Genealogy

 * public libraries.

Newspapers

 * Tooele County Chronicle and Tooele Transcript-Bulletin, covering 1947-1948 and 1894-1924 respectively are included.
 * Existing copies of newspapers
 * [[Toole County, Utah
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Obituaries

 * Newspapers of
 * Local Funeral Homes, Societies, Libraries, or in family records.
 * Obituaries of neighboring counties
 * Newspapers of major cities: Deseret News and/or The Salt Lake Tribune both in Salt Lake City

Officials and Employees

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Population

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Probate Records

 * public libraries.

Public Records

 * public libraries.

Courthouses
www.co.tooele.ut.us/ County Clerk, 47 South Main Tooele, UT 84074 Telephone: (435) 843-3140 Fax: (435) 882-7317

County seat: Tooele

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Grantsville Utah Family History Center
 * Tooele Valley Utah Family History Center
 * Wendover Utah Family History Center

Libraries

 * public libraries.

Taxation

 * public libraries.

Vital Records

 * public libraries.

Marriage

 * 1855-1929 - Western States Marriage Index. Includes Tooele County 1855-1929.

Death
Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed on the Familysearch.org/. 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. More infomation at Utah Death Certificates (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Utah State Burial Index for death before 1904

Tooele Genweb site has further information on Births, Marriages, Deaths record sources.