What's New in 2024

WHAT WAS NEW 2018 -- ENJOY :)

WHAT WAS NEW 2019

WHAT WAS NEW 2020

WHAT WAS NEW 2021

WHAT WAS NEW 2022

WHAT WAS NEW 2023

WHAT WAS NEW 2024

GOALS FOR 2024 --

At least 500 obits -- (but there'll be more :)

More War info on soldiers; units, etc (Note marking it done as we've added a lot but always use more ESPECIALLY the Korean War

Work on the schools, churches and business sections - see above note - always use more :)

Add at least 20 pictures of people, places or things from the county. - thanks so very, very much to Mary Lou

Add at least 30 News items

Continue working on birth records

** ADDED THIS MONTH - MAY 2024 **

OBITUARIES __93__TOTAL obits for May 2024 = 93-- For the YTD 476 -- TOTAL obituaries on the site 8,652

Added: : Names: A -- B - C -Chapman (Hugh); Cawley (Belle - added to this one) -D -Dean (Russell - added to); Denman (Ella - added to); Detro (Lorean -- added to) E -Evans (Ellen; Mae; Thomas)- -F -- Fisk (Infant); Folck (Keith - WWII) - G - Gibson (Isaac - added to ; Grissom (Julia Hanifen - murdered) -; H -Hall (George W); Hackleman (Lillian Stewart); Hawkins (Myrtle Marquis); Hill (George W); Hovermale (Paul) -; I -- Irvine (Ona Hartley) - J -- Johnson (Lovie Marshall); Johnston (James A; Myra); Jackson - child; Jones; Esther Snider - K --Kalff (Cordelia); Kelly (Margaret x2); L -Linley (Nona); Lynch (Dr MJ); -M--Marshall (Eldon; Martha); Martin (Donald - WWII; Paul M; Henry B Harry"; Sydney Ellen);Mark (Wiley Foster)'' Mann (Hugo; Merle Franklin, Raymond); Marquis (Alexander - CW); Mahoney (Edward; Harriet; Mary); Miller (Mary Steele); Malayer (Claude Matthew); Moler (Lucy) . Mc --McCammack, Henry - Civil War N -Neal (Raymond "Gaumey"); Noe (Elma Mark); Norman (Jack); Norris (Celia Hedges) - O-- Owens (James x2)- P Patrick (Eunol); Peffley (inf of Clyde); Pickel (Wilmer); Poole (William Clyde) S -- Sage (Maggie); Schade (Ruth Stutsman); Sechman (Edgar); Siddons (Thelma Stone);Smith (Rutha?); SUtton (Roscoe); Stewart (Carl; Hulda Wright; Flossie Mann; Harold; Glen John); Steirwalt (Irvin); Stevenson (Frank); Steele (Lawrence Maurice - Wm. J - WWI - KIA) - ; T -- Turman (Solon x4) ; W --Walters (James R x2); Weaver (Anna Simpson - added; James R x 3 - Civil War); Wood (William); Whitaker (Frances); Williams (Bernice Mann). XYZ --

Births (WPA) Updating has started, we are slowly adding new names and corrections by checking other records so please be patient. NUMBERS Added or Corrected = 482 (YTD = 2,512 ; To Date = 16, 734 ): Brattain; Patrick; Patterson; Patton; Payton; Peyton; Paxton; Payne; Pearce; Pierce; Pearcy; Pearson; Person; Pierson; Person; Peck; Peffley; Pence; Perkins; Perry; Terry; Thayer; Parr; Phillips; Pickel; Mace; Maze; Mager; Macy; May; Magill; McGill; Madden; Matkins; Maddox; Mahan; Mahoney; Malayer; Malan; Maloney; Malone; Mangus; Mann; Mannan; Mauker; Mattox; Myers; Marxh; Marcum; Ozment; Marion; Mark; Marquis; Marshall; Martin;

CEMETERIES: (ytd= 1 ) ADDED>

Photo Added: ytd = 31 = Added:

PHOTOGRAPHERS Added - (ytd= )

TOWNS - 114 to date Added: Dunbar Hill

Biographies 24 _ Added (YTD =42= total = 1,362 to date): Names: Blaydes; Cuthbirth; Cyrus; Cunningham x2; Cyrus; Carver; Durham ; Dills; Harris; Marshall; Modlin; Randel; New; Leatherman; Stroube x 2; Torr; Wampler; Vermilion;

Businesses 7 items Added (YTD = 62 ): Added these business items - Kroger; Lane's Rstaurant; Kerr Photography; H Curry & Son - tractors; Swaim - Radd spark plugs; JW Bilbo (Physician); George Hoffman - lock & gunsmith

Census ___ added -

Churches items __ -- (YTD = 62 )>>

DEATH RECORDS: Added (YTD=1 ):

News 13 Added (YTD =35): Gray (Charles; William Gayner murdered Wm. Counts); Alpheus Morris - 50th anniv); Clarissa Norman - accident shot by nephew); Payton (Ella - died of abortion?); Helper (Hepler? Louise - declared insane); Gorham (Doug - fire)

Marriages _12___ Added (YTD =12 - TD = 857): Names: Allen (BF & Angie Horn); Jones (Viola - Lizzie Vestal); Grimes (Betty - Lawrence Verplant); Laughlin (Flora Turman - Edward Laughlin); Mahoney (Maurice - Genevieve Gillespie); Scott (Sherman and Mary Wyatt)

Divorces 7 (YTD= 7): Added: Craver (Sallie vs William); Grimes (Lydia-Lawrence); McAlinden (Olive-Charles); Patterson (Lucy - William); Rightsell (Mary - John); Townsend (Murray - Novella); Truesdale (Lucille - Jewel)

Military Added ( )

Revolutionary War =____Added two lists of those buried here
War of 1812 =____

Mexican War ___ __

Civil War =_2_ =YTD 4 - Alexander Marquis; Col. James R. Weaver

WW I = __1_ -YTD - 9 - William J. Steele - KIA

WW II = _2_ YTD - 10 - Donald Hubert Martin; Keith Folck
Korea _1__ - YTD - 13==

LAND =

LINKS Added (YTD= ):

Schools ___ ( YTD = 12 ): Added:

Land Transfers

Will, Abstracts, Estates: Added (YTD = ) =

** ADDED THIS MONTH - APRIL 2024 **

OBITUARIES __95__Added: : Names: A --Ader (Martha Sweet); Albright (Melvin); Allen (Henry); Alspaugh (Letha) B - Ball (Rachel); Baldon (John; Millie); Ballard (Walter); Baldwin (Carroll); Balay (John E); Brothers (Belle, Amanda, Cyrena, Merrill); C - Carmichael (Robert); Caldwell (Elbert); Clark (Edna); Clift (Abigail); Cox (Edna); Crosby (Byron, Jobe and Donald Anderson - WWII) -- D - E -- Edwards (Daily; Robert; Sarah); Elmore (Henry) -F --Ferrand (Carl); Farmer (Flora, Florence; Franklin (Victoria); G -Galey (James, Julia); Goff (Charles, James H); -; H - Harbison (John Howard); Harmon (Thomas Henry); Hamilton (Edward); Hedrick (Zella); Hester (Nora) Hill (Alberta; Alexander; Andrew; Harold V); -; I -- J -- K --) L -Lang (Anna Steele); Lucas (Clovie Peffley); Lydick (Catherine Hicks; Joseph Morton) - M--Mace (Gladys, James H); Michael (Bertha); Miller (Daniel Boone; Dorothy); Mitchell (Charles) . Mc -- N -Newell (George); Newgent (Ed) - O O'Dell (Wilma); Ooley (Clarence)- P -Parker (Charles; Roscoe; Ruth); Payne (Caleb, John); Page (Jesse Elza); Parish (Artie); Peck (Eugene, Leonard); Perkins (Cecil; Pearl Archer); Pfeiffer (Charlotte); Pierson (Ralph) S -- Shannon (Geroge); Shillings (George); Siddons (Sarah); Small (George); Sprinkle (John); Sturm (Oscar); Summers (Ben Franklin; John x3); T - Terry (Herbert - KOREA - KIA -- Tucker (WW - Dr); Templeman (Richard Paul); Thomas (Elzaephus - Elza); Taylor (Franklin); Thomas (Elbert) W -- Wells (Florence); Wethington (James D); White (Gilbert); XYZ -- Young (Oscar); Yant (Ella, Isaac, John)

TOTAL obits for April 2024 = 95 -- For the YTD 383 -- TOTAL obituaries on the site 8,559

Births (WPA) Updating has started, we are slowly adding new names and corrections by checking other records so please be patient. NUMBERS Added or Corrected = (YTD = 2,030 ; To Date = 16, 242):

CEMETERIES: (ytd= 1 ) ADDED>

Photo Added: ytd = 31 = Added:

PHOTOGRAPHERS Added - (ytd= )

TOWNS 1 - 114 to date Added: Dunbar Hill

Biographies 14 _ Added (YTD =18= total = 1,350 to date): Names: Akers (Virginia; Henry); Canter (JD); Fosher (John); Hurst (Martin); Lucas (JH); Moser (Wm); Pickett (Charles; David); Pursell (Bazil); Sellers (John Crawford; John L); Wallace (Elijah; John W); Weik (Louis + photo)

News 15 Added (YTD =22):Thomas, Fred - Bugged Buggy man; Census - 1880 old folks); Commercial Travelers (too many in Greencastle); Mule Case - Oral Myers; Poor Farm 1880 report

Marriages __6__ Added (YTD = - TD = 845): Names: Cowgill (marr Happ); Fox (marr Wood); Galey (marr Hazlett)

Divorces (YTD= ): Added:

WW II = __4_ YTD - 8 - Crosby (Donald); White (Glenn); Phillips (Russell); Perkins (Cecil);

Korea _1__ - YTD - 13==Herbert Terry (if ANYONE has a GOOD obit for him please oh please send it to us - we have 3 but none are good ones :(

Sorry, we are a bit late this month - major computer problems :)

** ADDED THIS MONTH - MARCH 2024 **

OBITUARIES 151 + 73 _44__Added: : Names: A -- B -C -- D -- G --; H -; I -- J -- K --) L -- M-- . Mc -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -Rice, James A; Richardson, Jesse - CW; Nellye Riggs- S -Sappenfield (Geroge E; Mary Medaris; William)); Sanders (Nancy); Sanford (George B); Shakes (Mrs Eli - added 2); Silvey (Gladys Sutherlin); Skaggs (Burse); Spurgeon (Tullis); Steele (Lonie; Edward H); Steeg (David B); Stites (Roscoe, Ross); Sutherlin (Ed, William R); Sublett (David Gerald); Sublette (Leon); Summers (Gale, Anna, WF, Ralph - added, Thadeus); Staley, Albert V; Stanley (Woodrow); Stone (Donald, Andrew, Claude, Henry - WWII); Stokes (Royce); Stetsman (Jesse); Stoner (Russell); Strange (Charles E); Sweeney (Robert - WWI); Sweet, James (WWII and Thomas C);Sutherlin (Lucille) -T -- iU -V -. W - - X-Y- Z -- TOTAL obits for March 214 YTD 288 -- TOTAL obituaries on the site 8, 453

Births (WPA) Updating has started, we are slowly adding new names and corrections by checking other records so please be patient. NUMBERS Added or Corrected = 371 (YTD = 1,030 ; To Date ): Sprinkle; Swaim; Swartz; Sweeney;Sweet; Swift; Swinford; Sanford; Swope; Stites; Staats; Stiles; Stokes; Stone; Stoner; Storm; Strain; Strange; Stringer; Strother; Stultz; Sturgeon; Stutsman; Sublett; Sudranski; Sullivan; Summers; Parker; Parkhurst; Parish; Paris; Parrish; Park; Parks; Parsley; Pace; Page;

CEMETERIES: (ytd= 1 ) ADDED>

Photo Added: ytd = 31 = Added:

PHOTOGRAPHERS Added - (ytd= )

TOWNS 1 - 114 to date Added: Dunbar Hill

Biographies _ Added (YTD =4= total = 1,336 to date): Names:

Bibles ____ added - Sure need some :

Businesses 10 items Added (YTD = 55 ): Added these business items - Brawner Saddle Harness company; Vaught Saddle Harness Company; Tom Vancleave bought McIlvain Grocery - Wallace McIlvain sells grocery; Bauer, Will buys wagon shop; James Curtis buys wagon shop; Wilkinson, Allen Lumber Co; Russellville Meat Market - Hoover, WM Meat Market

Census ___ added -

Churches items __ -- (YTD = 62 )>>

DEATH RECORDS: Added (YTD=1 ):

News Added (YTD =7):

Marriages ____ Added (YTD = - TD = 839): Names:

Divorces (YTD= ): Added:

Military Added ( )

Revolutionary War =____Added two lists of those buried here

War of 1812 =____

Mexican War ___ __

Civil War =_1_ =YTD 2 -Jesse Richardson

WW I = _1__ -YTD - 8 - Robert Sweeney

WW II = __2_ YTD - 4 - Henry Arthur "Hank" Stone; James S. Sweet

Korea ___ - YTD - 12==

PIONEERS = __ _ -

LAND =

LINKS Added (YTD= ):

Schools ___ ( YTD = 12 ): Added:

Land Transfers

Will, Abstracts, Estates: Added (YTD = ) =

** ADDED THIS MONTH - FEBRUARY 2024 **

OBITUARIES _73__Added: (YTD ~ =151 total overall 8,165 to date) - note often a name will have 2-3 obituaries - I tally names): Names: A -Allen, Charles; Elbert; Sarah- B -Broadwater, Pearl; Brown, Estella C - Chadwick, Samuel - added; Caldwell, Elbert Eugene; Crane, Mayme Tankersley; Cummins, Emily Bowen - D --Donohue, DC; DOuglas, Hugh Martin; G --Grimes (Charley, Samantha Smith x3; Samuel G; H -Hamilton, Elba; Donald Lee added info; Lowell; Hillis, Fred Bascom x 3 articles; Will-; I -- J -- K --) L --Lasley, Charles - WWI - KIA; Dudley; Lockridge, Malissa) M--Michael, Emma Pearl; Meek, Myrtle McCammack; . Mc -- .McGaughey, Oliver; McCammack, Mary Elizabeth N -- O -- P -- Q -- R --Ronk, George WWII - POW - article and obit (died many years later) ; Rosenberg, Lucille S --Sanders, John H (died tb during WWI); Sheehan (Edwina Guy); Scott (Florence); Shaner, Charles; Sherrill, Elizabeth; Snider (Dewey; Gilbert; Perry (WWI - 1st KIA); Smithson, Ross Earl; Kenneth; Roy (WWI as is Kenneth); Nora Rogers; Sutherlin (Gerlad; Leonard Milford; Anna Rebecca Miles; Lou Verne Waller; Emery R; Richard; Madge; Clyde; Claud; Herbert L; Macel Glen; Oral Ralph; Smythe (George Virgil; Harold; Otto); Snmith, Alonzo Joseph; Robert; Swinford, Louisa x 3 iU -V -. W -Waller, carl; White; Ared F. - X-Y- Z --

Births (WPA) Updating has started, we are slowly adding new names and corrections by checking other records so please be patient. NUMBERS Added or Corrected = 444 (YTD = 659 ; To Date 14,212 ): Smithson; Smock; Smythe; Snider; Snodgrass; Snyder; Soloman; Soots; Salsbery; Sutherlin; Sutherland; Spencer; Spurgeon; Sutherlin; Staton; Stanley; Stairwalt; Stierwalt; Staley; Staggs; Stwalley; Stalcup; Starr; Steeg; Steele; Steegmiller; Stevens; Stephens; Stephenson; Stevenson; Stewart; Steward; Steirwalt;

CEMETERIES: (ytd= 1 ) ADDED>

Photo 9 Added: ytd = 31 = Added: 2 images of Oliver Bryson and Matilda "McCullough" JOHNSON, 1 in front of their home ans another of their tombstone; 3 photos of Rissler, William E. and wife Susan "Boone"; Johnson, Matilda "McCullough" Johnson; Oliver Bryson Johnson; Tombstone of Levina "Myers" McCullough; Tombstone of William McCullough;

PHOTOGRAPHERS Added - (ytd= )

TOWNS - 114 to date Added:

Biographies 3_ Added (YTD =4= total = 1,336 to date): Names: Hillis, Fred; Kussner, Albert; Belles, Fred Leon - added info

Bibles __1__ added - Sure need some : Bible of Oliver Bryson and matilda "McCullough" JOHNSON showing Births and Marriages;

Businesses 19 items Added (YTD = 45 ): Added these drug stores: Allens; City; Cook's; Coan; Fleenors; Hathaway; Irwin; Jones; Kleists; Landes; Morrow; Mullins; Owl; Palace; Parton; Phoenix; Stevens; Oil - Fred Hillis; and Swiss Oil Company

Census ___ added -

Churches 4 items __ -- (YTD = 62 )>>Somerset -- article with a lot of history; Deer Creek 1928 article; Christ Church - Greencaslte - added; Brick Chapel - added to it

DEATH RECORDS: Added (YTD=1 ):

News 4 Added (YTD =7): Hixson, Robert - army Pursuit flight; Greencastle Masonic Temple cornerstone

Marriages __6__ Added (YTD = - TD = 839): Names: Frazier; Bryon; Ozment; x 3 Smith

Divorces (YTD= ): Added:

Military Added ( )

Revolutionary War =__2__Added two lists of those buried here
War of 1812 =____

Mexican War ___ __

Civil War =_1_ =YTD 1 - Edward Kerchevel - CW Pension and tombstone

WW I = __6_ -YTD - 7 - John H Sanders - died of tb while in WWI; Perry Snider - first KIA in WWI; Roy & Kenneth Smithson - vets ; list of KIA (died in action - article) added info on Perry Snider

WW II = __1__ YTD - 2 - Ronk, George (POW article & obit - died 2000+)
Korea __4_ - YTD - 12== Added Rex Terry info; added list of 7 KIA; added info on Billy Gilley x 3; Keyt, William

Schools _2__ ( YTD = 12 ): Added: 2 photos with names for Roadman/Rodman School;

** ADDED THIS MONTH - JANUARY 2024 **

OBITUARIES _78__Added: (YTD ~ =78 total overall 8,092 to date) - note often a name will have 2-3 obituaries - I tally names): Names: A -- B -Belles (Alfred); Boardman, Anna Eliza; Bonwell (S Sgt Arthur - KIA Korea; Beadle (Carrie Osborn); Bolton (Elva Smith); Bowman (Luther Jack); Booker (Elizabeth Miller); Brant (Wayne - may be the most impressive ever - this man was in three wars and Name twice -- WWII, Korea, Vietnam - Rest In Peace dear man); BUrnside (William H); Buddenbaum (Lewis); Bridges, Charles - Korean Vet); - D --Davies (Everett - KIA Korea); Dwigans (Thelma); Davis (Helen; Jessie); - E --E) F -Fulmer (Doris Shoemaker); French (Henry Allen - Korean Vet); G -- H --Hodshire (John William - KIA - Korea); Hutcheson (William Harrison); I --Ireland (John) J -- K --) L --) M--Miller (Curtis G - Korean Vet); . Mc -- . N -- O -- P -- Q -- R --Reynolds, Melvin (KIA - Korea) S --Siddons (Dallas Frederick); Simpson (Mildred Underwood); Shoemaker (Johnnie) - KIA Korea; Smith (Eugene Max - WWII Vet; Ray Donovan; Jewell Elmer; Pauline; Albert A; John L (WwII Navy Vet); Orlando; Olin Melson (died while in service in WWI); Donald Edward (WWII Vet); Ila; Hattie and Norman N) T --Tobin (Homer); Taylor, William E (KIA Korea); Tillotson (Jesse); Truesdale Harold (KIA Korea) U -V -. W - Woliung, John (KIA - 6 articles); White, Ared F; Wethington, Glenn - WWII Vet); Wettschurrack (Effie Wolf) - X-Y- Z --

Births (WPA) Updating has started, we are slowly adding new names and corrections by checking other records so please be patient. NUMBERS Added or Corrected = 215 (YTD = 215 ; To Date 13,768 ): Smith;

CEMETERIES: (ytd= 1 ) ADDED>

Photo 22 Added: ytd =22 = Added: Evertt Davies - KIA Korea; Rissler, Hiram and wife Nancy Irwin Rissler along with a sketch of their home;; 6 photos of William Jasper Johnson, which includes one with his wife Harriett "Hattie" Ann Rissler Johnson and another with friend Frank Farrow; 5 photos of Harriett "Hattie" Ann Rissler Johnson; 2 photos of William Jasper Johnson; Oliver Bryon Johnson and Matilda McCullough Johnson; William Jasper John, Moses "Mode" Rissler, and James Vorhees McCullough; 3 photos with Children of William and Harriett: Jessie Mae, Mary Frances, Myrtle, Alma, Roy, Lowell, Forrest, Earnet and Vernis.;

PHOTOGRAPHERS Added - (ytd= )

TOWNS - 114 to date Added:

Biographies 1_ Added (YTD =1 = total = 1,333 to date): Names: Johnston, James T - added 14 articles - he's really something

Bibles __ __ added - Sure need some :(

Businesses 26 items Added (YTD = 26 ): Bernie's Barber Shop; Allan Lumber; Horace Link; Bill's Campus Corner; Eitel Floral; Fleenor's Drug Store Moore Electric; University Book Store; White Cleaners; JC McCurry; The Hut; Greencastle Water Works; Welch's Confection; Weber Electric Shoe Repair (whatever that is); Oakley Stores; Timmons' Barber Shop; FC Schoeman, Jeweler; True-Hixon Lumber; McCammon Garage; Dr. Wm. McGaughey; JC PEnney; Lueteke's Bakery (sp - can't read my writing - sorry); Franklin Street Garage

Census ___ added -

Churches items today__ -- (YTD = 58 )>>

DEATH RECORDS: Added (YTD=1 ):

News 3 Added (YTD =3): Fires - Bainbridge Standard Oil Company; Bainbridge Saddle Club; Russellville - fairs & shows

Marriages ____ Added (YTD = - TD = 827): Names:

Divorces (YTD= ): Added:

Military Added ( )

Revolutionary War =____

War of 1812 =____

Mexican War ___ __

Civil War =__ =

WW I = __1_ - Smith, Olin Melson - died while in service WWI

WW II = _1___ Glenn Wethington - WWII Vet

Korea __8_ - YTD - 8== Added Woliung; Bonwell (Arthur - KIA); see Brant (oh, wow); Hodshire, John William (KIA - Korea); Reynolds, Melvin (KIA - Korea); Shoemaker (Johnnie - KIA); Truesdale (Harold) + photo; Taylor, William E - KIA)

PIONEERS = __ _ -

LAND =

LINKS Added (YTD= ):

Schools ___ ( YTD = 10 ): Added:

Land Transfers

Will, Abstracts, Estates: Added (YTD = ) =