My apologies for taking so long to answer this. Between school delays,
closings, and fire, our world has been a bit out of schedule.
Melinda and I went through many of the stack of books at Pearson School. A
visit required one of the Auditor's staff to go and "sit" with us. It was
always cold when I went, the lighting wasn't great and there was no way to
organize what we looked at so they just stayed in the wall-to-wall stacks.
They covered the gymnasium, the stage area and a few small rooms behind the
stage that were probably offices. There was one classroom filled with
transfer books. I believe these transfer books (real estate) had been in
the courthouse vault that was next to (west of) the Clerk's vault.
The other stacks in the gym area ...
Most stacks were waist high. There was enough room to walk between the
stacks, but not enough room to make new stacks or organize.
I remember seeing several books that described the sale/lease/rent of the
lands in section 16 of each congressional township. Interesting because
they had the first names of people back in the 1820-30s.
I remember books of legal dockets.
I remember books that assessors had recorded exact descriptions of each
persons property. There were many of these books. At one point, I tried to
group these by townships. I think the earliest was in the 1850s. First
names included here also.
Tax duplicates.
Arrest records.
Monies loaned.
Lists of fines due the county as demanded by the Justice's of the Peace in
the individual townships.
Many of the books are not thick enough to have spines. The ones that do
have spines often had the labels torn off (because of age and wear).
Hopefully Melinda can remember some of the other types of books. None
belonged to the Clerk's Office. They were all Assessor's, Treasurer's and
Auditor's. I believe some of these books were put in the dungeon room at
Shelby Manor.
As soon as we can get a storage area approved by the county, we can
inventory these books and move them. I am thinking that if we wrap them in
brown paper, we could write the name of the book on the paper. The
different offices can then review the list and "claim" the books they need.
The ones they don't have to keep, we can photograph. The ones they do need
will be the nightmare. The State is saying they must be microfilmed, but
the State is also saying that they are afraid to microfilm them until they
are treated.
P
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From: <CCarnivale(a)aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 11:37 AM
Subject: [INSHELBY] One more Mildew question
Phyllis, Melinda, Barbara, and anybody else who might know.
Do you know what those records are? Probate, Ct mins, land records, etc.?
Could they possibly be among the one the LDS mirofilmed eons ago?
Hope the snow has not overpowered you'all up there!
Carleen
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