Marshall County, IndianaEdit This Page

From FamilySearch Wiki

United States Indiana Marshall County

	Indiana Online Records

Adopt-a-wiki page
	This page adopted by: Indiana Genealogical Society who welcome you to contribute.
Adopt a page today

County Courthouse

Marshall County Courthouse
211 W Madison Street
Plymouth, IN 46563-1762
Phone: 219.936.8922

County Healt Department has birth,
death and burial reocrds from 1882.
County Clerk has marriage, divorce,
probate and court records from 1836.
County Recorder has land records. ^[1]

History

Parent County

1835--Marshall County was created 7 February 1835 from St. Joseph and Elkhart Counties.
County seat: Plymouth ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Elkhart
• Fulton
• Kosciusko
• Pulaski
• St. Joseph
• Starke

Resources

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries for Marshall County   Linkpendium
• Cemetery - Marshall County Cemeteries with locations and driving directions - sorted Alphabetically INGenWeb
• Cemetery - Marshall County Cemeteries with locations and driving directions - sorted by Township  INGenWeb

Census

For tips on accessing Marshall County, Indiana census records online, see: Indiana Census.

• Index to Defective, Dependent & Delinquent Census for Marshall County, Indiana (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Church

Court

Directories

• Directory of Businesses in Marshall County, Indiana (1858) (members only database, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Land

Local Histories

• Histories of Marchall County  Likpendium

• McDonald, Daniel. A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana. (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1908.)  977.288 H2m FHL US/CAN Book FHL Collection   other libraries   Vol. 2   INTERNET ARCHIVE
  

• Ellsworth, Spencer. Records of the Olden Time, or, Fifty Years on the Prairies Embracing ... the Organization of the Counties of Putnam and Marshall, Incidents and Reminiscences Connected Therewith, Biographies of Citizens, Portraits and Illustrations. (La Crosse, Wis: Brookhaven Press (a division of NMT Corp.), 2003.)  other libraries   INTERNET ARCHIVE
  

• Brant & Fuller. History of Indiana Containing a History of Indiana and Biographical Sketches of Governors and Other Leading Men. Also a Statement of the Growth and Prosperity of Marshall County, Together with a Personal and Family History of Many of Its Citizens. (Madison, Wisc: Brant, Fuller, 1890.)   other libraries   Vol.1  INTERNET ARCHIVE   vol. 2 INTERNET ARCHIVE
  

• Every Name Index to P. H. S. 1876-1976 Centennial Edition  Every Name Index by Cathy L. O'Connor, 2011; original text by Plymouth High School Centennial Annual Committee.  EveryNameIndex.com

Maps

• Maps and Gazetteers linkpendium

Military

• Military Records and Histories Linkpendium
  

• Indiana State Digital Achives for Civil War can be searched by soldier's name (accessed 1 May 2011)
  
• Veterans in Marshall County (1913) ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)
• Residents of Marshall County Who Served in the Spanish-American War ($, Indiana Genealogical Society)

Civil War

Civil War service men from Marshall 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 Marshall County.

• 9th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reoriganized Company B
• 12th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company E, and H
• 12th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reoriganized Company A
• 13th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, Company K
• 17th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company F
• 20th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company C, and Reorganized Company D
• 20th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery
• 29th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company I, and K
• 30th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Reorganized Company E
• 73rd Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Companies D, and F
• 124th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company I
• 128th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company I
• 138th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (100 days, 1864), Company E
• 151st Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company I
• 155th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Company H, and I
• 28th US Colored Troops, Addition Recruits for Colored Troops

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

• Indiana State Digital Achives for Death, E-Publication, Instiution, Military, Misc Historical, Naturalization Records can be searched by person name (accessed 26 May 2011)
  

• Indiana Marriages, 1802-1892 - Ancestry.con $
  

• Indiana Marriages, 1780-1992  - FamilySearch
  

• Indiana Marriage, 1811-1959  - FamilySearch
  

• Indiana, Death Index, 1882-1920 - FamilySearch

Societies and Libraries 

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.
• Marshall County, Indiana Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
• EveryNameIndex.com   Free online genealogy indexes for those big old county histories.

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Marshall County, Indiana 214 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).