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Welcome, to the newly revised
Montgomery County, Indiana Genweb Site
!!! Something New!!! To help facilitate moving between projects, I have added what I call the "Get Around Links" You will find their menu tab, just below the "Home Page ~ Tab", in the pull down menu by clicking the three bars in the left column. There is also a link to them at the top of each sections main page. I suggest that you open them in their own browser tab for easier access. These links will make it easier to move more directly between the sub-sites. I hope you enjoy them and have FUN, Happy Genealogy Days!!! Have Fun, Jim
I have tried hard to give the Genealogists of Montgomery County something to be proud of. If you discover a problem, let Karen know. Everyday I am learning something new about this procedure. Please be patient, Thanks, Jim!
NOTE: I and many others have spent about 25 plus years (from its inception) on this project -- PLEASE GIVE CREDIT if you use our work! I've found hundreds of obituaries FROM THIS SITE on findagrave and many personal genealogy sites - I know the obituaries etc. came from here but I don't see any credit. PLEASE GIVE CREDIT!!!! Here is the citation you should use & thanks so much in advance :)
Citation: The Indiana (INGenWeb Project), Copyright ©1996-2019 (and beyond), Montgomery County GenWeb site http://www.ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ - thanks soooo much - Karen Bazzani Zach
My name is Karen Bazzani Zach and I am your Coordinator for Montgomery County. My hubby is constantly helping me as well - thanks, Jim Z :) . Your Indiana State Coordinator is Lena Harper . Her assistant state coordinator is: Jim Cox
Below we have a self playing slide show. By placing the cursor below the "Control Bar" you will see a description of the photo. There is an icon "[ ]" on the right side of the "Control Bar" that by clicking on it the slide show will enlarge to "Full Screen". You can then move forward or backward, at your own pace, by clicking on the right or left arrows. Then there are full screen controls in the upper right hand corner. Please enjoy!
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Montgomery County, Indiana is rich with history and owns many interesting sites, including the Old Jail Museum (with one of the only workable rotating cells); the Lane Place (home of Henry S. Lane, Senator and personal friend to President Lincoln); Lew Wallace Study (author of the book, Ben Hur); DAR house (owned by the Elston family until the Dorothy Q Chapter, DAR purchased it); and Wabash College (an all-male Liberal Arts School with less than 1,000 students dating back to 1832).
Townships include Brown (with towns of Browns Valley and Waveland); Clark (Ladoga); Coal Creek (New Richmond, Wingate and Elmdale); Franklin (Darlington, Shannondale); Madison (Linden and Kirkpatrick); Ripley (Alamo, Yountsville); Scott (Parkersburg, New Market); Sugar Creek (Bowers); Union (Crawfordsville; Whitesville); Walnut (New Ross, Mace); Wayne (Waynetown). Crawfordsville, the County seat, is a third-class city with a full time mayor, a seven-member council and a clerk-treasurer. The city is located just off Interstate 74, about 45 miles West of Indianapolis.
Note: There has been a group of folks who have found (can you believe this?) over 500 towns to date (7-1-2023 ) - click on towns on the left column to read about not only those above but many, many more.Thanks so much to Suzie, Dellie & Jerry for the majority of them -- It's truly amazing!
In Honor and Memory of our past INGenWeb State Coordinators : Thanks for your dedication - here are Betty's remembrances of how Indiana began :) Loved that lady!
1996 - 1998 - Betty Sellers
1998 - 2000 - Fred Finkbiner
2000 - 2002 - Patrick Hays
2003 - 2004 - Gene Andert
2004 - 2011 - Debra Behler
2011 - 2012 - Katy Hestand
2012 - 2016 - Denise Wells
2016 - 2017 - John Peck
2017- -------- Lena Carlson Harper
(and thanks to Judi Burns (Greene Co Coordinator) for the INGenWeb history lesson :) I've seen 'em all come/go. Some were great (like Betty, & Fred), others good, a couple not so much :) Current one, Lena is awesome so hopefully, we're back on a great road again! Overall, though, they tried and kept us going as one of the ONLY FREE genealogy sites. ENJOY
Destination Indiana (Montgomery County link)
***Submission notification*** -
Effective November 21, 2012 -- Anyone submitting an obituary, picture, letter, biography ... for this site SHOULD note that the person being submitted (the obituary is about that person, in other words) SHOULD have been born, lived, or died in Montgomery County (sorry, but the site is getting sooo huge, I think this is necessary - THANKS MUCHES)- kbz
I want to take this space to THANK MY WONDERFUL TYPISTS
*****
Barbara
Beth
Betty
Cathy
Chris -
Christi
Cheryl
Debbie
Debby M.
Dellie
Gayla
Ginny
Glynnis
Jack * (Jack has been absolutely amazing)
Jerry
John - John did much work on the WWI Vets
Kelly
Kim H. - Current typist - super help
Lena
Melissa
Roselyn
S. (thanks sooo sooo much)
Sara Mc
Teresa
Tom H.
Vickie
Walt * (Walt typed a humongous bunch)
*****
** PLEASE let me know if I left anyone out because these guys & gals are
SUPER and I want to make sure they get a BIG THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!! ***
T H I S - W E E K' S - F E A T U R E D - P H O T O -
Mace Basketball Boys
Our guess is sometime in the 1930s or 40s. Sorry "No Names", if you know any or when pleas let us know!
Photo thanks to Bill Boone
(thanks to mzayat.com for the cute gif)IF YOU HAVE ANY PICS OF ANY OF THE TOWNS / BUILDINGS / AREAS / CHURCHES/ BUSINESSES/PEOPLE, please send them my way :) for this page and to archive in the photos section !! Love to share our history! kbz
ADDITIONS
CHECK - Check out the 2024 additions
2024 Goals -- wish us luck :) ALL COMPLETE -- YES and it's only the first of August - YES
1 – 500-800 obituaries - 500 down but going for the 800 :) THIS IS COMPLETE
2 – At least 25 photos -- COMPLETE
3 – Add more bibles, marriages, military, churches, schools … quite a bit of school (over 800 items) & military - several churches and marriages - love to get more bibles but COMPLETE as we can get it !!!
4 – Add more newspaper clippings ... added 50 so guess I can count this one :) COMPLETE - but will still work on it of course
5 – Add at least 5 Who’s Who .. yep, NEED to get this done then we accomplished our goals - I'm working on two - will finish before end of year -COMPLETE
NOVEMBER 2024 --Additions to Montgomery County INGenWeb
Obituaries: _210 = 1238 YTD - November ACCOMPLISHED our 500-800 goal = 30,953 total -- Dain (Grace); Damewood (Thoas); Davis (Stephen Morton - added) Davison (Mary Alice); Dazey (John E; Verna (added). Delp (Dorothy_; Deeter (Ida; Nellie; Elizabeth); Deck (Samuel); Dettbenner (Albert, Augusta); Denman (Ella); Dewey (Catherine; Lizzie; Detchon (John T). Downs (Tommy); Donahue (Bridget x 2; Dowell (Darold WWII); Maude; Thomas Erasmus. Dunbar (Alpha x 2); Duncan Helen; Alexander); Dunn (Matilda added); Dunkle (William). Fay (James Marion); Fishero (Jesse); Foxworthy (Minnie); Ferrell (Fred; Willie - WWI). Fenters (Mark O - added several); Farley (Earl); Fertich (William); Fields (Everett); Fenters Oran B x 3 and Ruth). Flannigan, George - added. Foster (Garrett). Furr (Cora added); Freeman (David, Mary 1887); Fullenwider (Moses) Fruits (Earl).
Britton (Jon Rodney); Crowder (Elijah); Crocker (Caroliine); Dude (James D); Dwiggins (Sherman); Elmore (Roscoe; Ellis (Howard x3); Ebrite (Amos x 2); Earl - child of Howard; Ewell (Wardlaw added 2); Erwin (Marie; Malcolm); Epperson (Hal); Faulkner (Estella); Faust (Martha Stewart); Florey (Homer Quiggle); Frazier (Gertrude); Furr (Elizabeth Fletcher x2); Gentry (Martha Ann); Graves (Warren); Grenard (Carrie Westfall; Clarence); Gosnell (Ida May); Hoffhaus (Lucille Kerr); Howard (Herman); Lane (William Darwin); Lang (Edward Glenn added); Landis (Bob G x 2; Mildred); Layne (Abraham x2); Meadows (Blanche Ruby Hatt Palmer); Morgan (Louise Duncan); Myers (John Raymond; Hazel Purnell); McAlister (Minnie); McBride (Effie Wilhite); McClure (Charles E); McCollum (James W; Samuel Tilden); McKnight (Hannah Sheaffer); Parks (James A); Paxton (Bertha Irene Delp); Walden (Wesley); Wade (Isaac Ferris - added); Wayne - WWI Andrew Jackson x2); Warrick (Emma added); Wade (Jennie Booe - added to); Walter (George Edward); Walters (Wilda); Warren (Elmira); Warner (Ethel); Watts (Henry Everett); Wantland (Charles x2); Whitaker (Charles Lawson); White (Charles Wesley); Whitham (Glenn Howard); Williams (Herman, Thomas J); Wilkerson (William McKinley (x3); Wilhelm (Lula Coram; Mary); Wilbeer (Adelaine x3); Wilson (Etta Hightower; Susan Scott; Williamson (Erasmus x3 added); Wills (Opal "Cappie"; Wray (Ethel Mae; Mary Buchanan); Wolever (Louise); Wollery (Leland); Woody (John Milton); Woodard (Pearl x 2); Wood (Harold - WWI)
Added these on 11-14-2024
D - Delaney, Lizzie; Derrick, Carrie; DeBruicker, Vincent; DeJehne June; Dellinger (June Sarver x2); Delp, Arbie and Stella; Denham (Robert x2); Dineen (John); Dickerson (Dorothy); Dice (Joseph T - 1967); Dinwiddie - Sarah Taylor? PLEASE HELP WITH THIS ONE if anyone knows her); Dinsmore (Francis Elmo);
S - Skinner (John Floyd x 2); Sloan (William F, Claude Albert); Smith (D. Puutnam; Putnam (different); Hannah P; Malinda; John W - Mexican & Civil War); Robert 1896 x 2; Mabel Bayless; Frances Shotts x 3; Lester; Vera Mitchell; Mertie). Spillman (Ira) -- added to); Sosbe (Donald Earl); Souders Richard); Aparger (Etta Slusser x 3; Ora Whitecotton); Songer Alice Hartman x2; Swank (Anna Elizabeth; Charlres Gale; Asbury 1920 added; William - 1900; Sutton (John Edmund x2); Sweeney (Orville "Jack)
Added (YTD = 2,082 ) :
Bibles ____ - Total 82 Bibles - (LOVE more):
Births -- added :
Blog -- ____ -- YTD ___:
BUSINESSES ____Added >> (Year To Date: 58--) Dog~n~Suds - Photo of owners and car-hop crew;
COURT RECORDS = TO INCLUDE:
Court Proceedings _ Added: __ Names :Deaths ___ Added: __ to date_ Names :Deeds___ Added: __ Names :Divorces _ _Added: YTD_9_ Names : (added_BryantInquests _ Added: __ Names :Land _ Added: __ Names :Law Suits - ____ Added -Marriages (includes announcements in newspapers) __Miscellaneous ____Naturalizations ___ Added: __ Names :Wills __ Added: __ Names :
Census ____ Updated:
CHURCHES Adding new Church Items HERE! 2 ( YTD = 8 <> TD = 115 ): Added -Photo of the Early Trinity ME Church of Crawfordsville with Parishioners about 1905; Trinity Sunday School Picnic 7 Aug 1908
Diaries --___ -
Digging Up Bones Mysteries _____ =
Letters ___ - (YTD = 10) Added:
Links -- __ Added - 1 YTD
Misc -- ____
MILITARY - (Causalities and Other Data)___Added - (ytd = 27 )
War of 1812 -__ -Spanish American War: _1_Mexican American - __1_John W. Smith - see aboveWorld War I = items added -_3_ - YTD : - Willie Ferrell; Andrew Jackson Waye; Wood (Harold)World War II =Items added _18_ YTD 43= Darold Dowell; Earl Farley; Donald Gott; Leo Grezesk; Charles Harmon; Okie Cline; Carrol Feather; Orville Geiger; draft article; Daniel Hillard; Jack Hudson; Dwight Hughes; Fred Jessup; Hubert Jones; Wm. P. Kane; Luher Irwin; Robert Wright; Richard Wilkinson; Charles Zaikovsky; and an article on CainKorean War = ___ YTD =2Viet Nam - ____ -YTD - 1
NEWS 25 -- Added - YTD - 131 - News 2 - Club - Annanias Club - LIARS - also under the liars lol - Wm. Welford; Fred Bandel; Ben Crane; Buck Brothers; Mit Scott; Harley Ornbaum. News 3 - Fires - 1909 Arson Fires - also linked to those who had them - Larsh, Snyder, Wedding (I hope); Doherty; Hodgkin; Lydick; Stout; Maxwell/ Misc Burgess, John - 5-legged calf; Fullen - sell 1st steers; Brewer Albert arrested or not by Marshall SNodgrass; Stanley x 2 Albert Adopted by JW Ramsey
Teachers Institute including the first one ever in MoCo
PHOTOS -- _2- Added (YTD =26 )
- Photos People: __2_ - Added: photo of Carlyle Scott in bio and James Wilson in Mexican-American War
- Photos Groups: - ;
- PHOTOS Places: ____ =
- Photographer information
STREETS -- Added ____YTD = 9 - - some new and some information
QUESTIONS - _____ -
REUNIONS - ____ ( YTD = 19) --
SHARED: ____ Sent articles/obits/info to these
RECEIVED: ____
Who's Who -- Mission accomplished -
Who's Who ____ -- Added -
Chautaqua
(thanks to Al Wolf for this awesome site - greatly appreciazted)
Hilary from the IN Div. of Hist Pres & Archaeology sent this recently - nifty