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United States Missouri Mercer County

	Missouri Online Records

County Courthouse

Mercer County Courthouse
802 E Main Street
Princeton, MO 64673
Phone: 660.748.34215 

County Clerk has birth records 1883-1894 and death records
1883-1891; Clerk Circuit Court has marriage, divorce, court
 land records; Circuit Court, division 2, has probate records^[1]

History

Parent County

1845--Mercer County was created 14 February 1845 from Grundy County. County seat: Princeton ^[2]

Boundary Changes

• See an interactive map of Mercer County border changes at N2Genealogy.

Record Loss

Places/Localities

• The State Historical Society of Missouri has information on historical Missouri place names for all 114 Missouri Counties.
  

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Decatur County, Iowa
• Grundy
• Harrison
• Putnam
• Sullivan
• Wayne County, Iowa

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

• Map of Mercer County townships (Histopolis)
  

• The University of Missouri Digital Library has digital copies of Missouri county plat books (ca. 1930) for all Missouri counties including Mercer County. The city of St. Louis is not included in this collection.
  

Military

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Births

Marriages

Deaths

• Missouri State Archives provides on-line access to Missouri Death Certificates more than 50 yrs old starting in 1910.
  

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.
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Mercer County, Missouri. Page 403 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).