Decatur County Look Ups
This is the latest list of lookup volunteers that I have, but it may or not be current. If your name appears here and you are no longer volunteering, please let me know and I'll promptly remove your name.Further volunteers are always welcome. If you have access to any Decatur County books or records and are willing to look up information for others, please let me know by using the email link found at the very bottom of the page. know.
Feel free to request a look-up from the following books and records. Please limit your request to one name per request. Please put DECATUR COUNTY LOOK-UP in the subject line of your request to insure the message is not overlooked or accidentally deleted. In the first line of your message please put the name of the book or records from which you are requesting a look-up. When you receive a lookup response, don't forget to thank your volunteer for their time.
Decatur County Publications and Records
| Atlas of Decatur County (JH Beers, 1882) (requested
names that appear in the WPA index are passed to Marian Dunlap
for reply) History of Decatur County by Lewis Harding (Bowen, 1915) Note: both volunteers have the WPA index of all names in early Decatur County histories. |
Cathy Haynes |
| Decatur County History (Decatur County Historical Society, 1984) | Louise Brock |
| Census Indices 1790-1870 | Lou Mozingo |
| Census Records 1820-1840, 1870-1920 | Amy Leineweber |
| Census Records 1850 | Kathy Ross |
| Census Records 1860 | Gail Shulmire |
| Deaths Feb 1882 - Dec 1899 (missing 22 Nov 1896 - 21 Oct 1899) | Cathy Haynes |
| Marriages 1851-1905 (see also Marriages before 1851) | Cathy Haynes |
| Early Landowners 1820-1835 (compiled by Maurice Holmes; see list of surnames first) | Phyllis Fleming |
| Cemetery Indexes and Records | Cathy Haynes |
| Court Records 1822-1848 (compiled by Maurice Holmes) | Marilyn Merritt |
| Will Records 1822-1906 (compiled by Maurice Holmes) | Phyllis Fleming |
| Enrolment of Soldiers, Their Widows and Orphans, of the Armies of the United States, residing in the State of Indiana, and Decatur County for the Year 1894 (request must specify township) | Cathy Haynes |
| 7th Indiana Infantry in Civil War | John Shuck |
| Memories of Westport's 3rd Fifty Years (1936-1986)
(George Cann, 1986) History of Westport, Indiana (George Cann, 1976) (see also online version) Story of Millhousen, 1834-1984 |
Lora Kalbli |
| History of St Omer (Bill Hurst, 1973) Centennial Sketches of the St Paul Neighborhood (Claude J Haymond, 1919) |
John Ballard |
Researchers in Decatur County
| Mary Kaeser will
photograph tombstones in Enochsburg Cemetery.
Sharon Mang will check courthouse records and library files in Greensburg and photograph tombstones. Russell Wilhoit, 328 North Jackson Street, Greensburg IN 47240, will check courthouse records, library files, obituaries, cemetery records and census records and will take pictures of tombstones. $5 per hour plus cost of transport and copying. |
Decatur County Family Records
Volunteer |
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| Apple, Ballard, Boyer, Colwell, Ensminger, Higgins, O'Byrne, Tindall | John Ballard |
| Arnold, Palmerton | Rochelle Riordan |
| Artmier, Christy, Eubanks, Schoettmer, Schroer, Schwering, Smothers, Snelling, Vogel | Cris West |
| Blick, Blickensdoerfer, Blickenstaff, Pleak, Pleakenstrauffer | Rolene Kiesling |
| Clark | Marilyn Merritt |
| Cobb, Dorsey | Dave Kennedy |
| Critser, Wood | Alana Bauman |
| Elder, Geiger, Gray, Haines, Montgomery, O'Hara, Pemberton, Reddington, Redington | Marion Frances van Tiger |
| Harding, Maynard | Shirley Maynard |
| Kendall | John Kendall |
| Leffler | Lora Leffler Short |
| Morris | Norman Morris |
| Mozingo | Kathy Ross |
| Nordmeyer. Wood | Charlotte Babicki |
| Potter | Katie Ferguson Jablonicky |
| Sharp | Ira Sharp "Tootie" Dennis |