From: Ellen J Choate <echoate1(a)juno.com>
To: INORANGE-L-(a)rootsweb.com
Cc: INLAWREN-L-@rootsweb.com,INDIANA-L-(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:39:00 -0800
Subject: courthouse fires
Message-ID: <20010111.003904.-4122173.1.echoate1(a)juno.com>
I saw a question a couple of days ago on one of my Indiana lists, but I
deleted the message and I don't remember which list. Maybe someone else
can use this, too.
Someone had asked if there was a list of Indiana courthouses that had
burned. Well, I happened to run across one today while looking for
something else entirely!
This is from "The Manual for Indiana Genealogical Research" by Pat and
Ray Gooldy, copyright 1991, contained in the Ector Co.,TX library. They
say this may not be a comprehensive list, and refer one to the "Indiana
Source Book I" (IN Hist. Soc., 1977). The dates are in genealogical
notation; day-mo-yr--
Boone Co. 12-10-1856 Hancock 9-12-1940
Noble 25-1-1859
Brown 1873 Henry
1-2-1864(Morgan's Raid?) Parke 1-10-1833
Clay 30-11-1851 Jackson 1872? 1881?
(sic) Porter 27-2-1934
Daviess 1927 Johnson 12-12-1874
Spencer 3-9-1833
Dearborn 5-2-1826 Knox 24-1-1814
Sullivan 7-2-1850
DeKalb 1913 Madison 1-12-1880
Tipton 1857
Dubois 17-8-1839 Martin 27-4-1876
Union 2-2-1903
Franklin 22-2-1852 Miami 16-3-1843
Vermillion 19-1-1844
Gibson 1935 Morgan 31-3-1876
Wabash 14-4-1870
It must be noted that simply because a fire occurred in one of these
courthouses, it does not mean all prior records were damaged or
destroyed. Check 'em anyway!
Ellen