PUTNAM COUNTY, Indiana
*First created in 1822.
*County seat: Greencastle.
Located in central Indiana.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include:
Bailey, Bainbridge, Barnard,
Belle Union, Blakesburg,
Brick Chapel, Broad
Park, Brunerstown, Cagles Mill, Carpentersville,
Cary, Clinton Falls,
Cloverdale, Cradick
Corner, Edgewood Lake, Fern, Fillmore, Fincastle,
Fox Ridge, Greencastle,
Groveland, Hamricks
Station P.O., Hirt Corner, Jenkinsville, Limedale,
Malta Station P.O., Manhattan, Morton,
Mount Meridian, New
Maysville, Oakalla Station, Pleasant Gardens, Portland
Mills, Putnamville, Raab Crossroads, Raccoon,
Reelsville, Roachdale,
Russellville, Vivalia,
and Westland.
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Surrounding Counties:
N = Montgomery
County, IN ENE = Hendricks
County, IN
W = Parke
County, IN PUTNAM COUNTY ESE =
Morgan
County, IN
SW = Clay
County, IN S = Owen County, IN
PUTNAM COUNTY, INDIANA
Established in 1822; County seat is Greencastle.
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of Putnam County, Indiana.
- Putnam County Convention and
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- 1895 Map of Putnam County, Indiana,
by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net
- 1875
Map of Putnam County, Indiana, from Higgins Belden & Co. (see citation)
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ARCHIVES
& LIBRARIES for Further Research
103 East Poplar Street - Greencastle,
IN 46135 Phone: (765) 653-2755.
"...Cyril Johnson Room offers genealogists and historians access to the
Putnam County Historical Society materials and many other collections..."
- Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library
(Carnegie)
- 100 East Washington Street - Roachdale, IN
46172-0399
Phone: (765) 522-1491
- Putnam County Indiana
Archives - includes biographies, military pension files, portions
of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more. For
example:
- The Pleasant Hill
Cemetery, "read" by Emory Brattain, May 30, 1966.
- Friends Cemetery,
located in Sect. 35, Twp. 13 R 5W on the George Rissler Farm, this
cemetery is no longer in existence. The list was abstracted from the
"Putnam County History - Indiana Sesquicentennial 1966 -pg. 392.
Burial dates from 1851 to 1879.
COUNTY
GOVERNMENT &
Vital Records
Contacts to obtain many
documents and cerified copies:
Putnam
County, Indiana Government Web Pages
Courthouse: 1 Court House Square - Fourth Floor
- Greencastle, IN 46135-1502 Phone: (317) 653-5210.
1 Court House Square St #
30 - Greencastle, IN 46135
Phone: (765) 653-5315.
- Mailing address: P. O. Box 546 - Greencastle, IN 46135
County Clerk: Phone: (765) 653-2649.
- Putnam County
Recorder (For Land Records)
1 Court House Square St # 25 - Greencastle, IN 46135 Phone: (765) 653-5613.
Putnam County Communities
Clinton Township communities
include: Clinton Falls, Morton and Portland Mills.
- Putnam
County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension
files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and
more.
Cloverdale
Township
communities include: Cloverdale.
Floyd
Township
communities include: Groveland.
· Putnam County
Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files,
portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
· Clear
Creek Cemetery, information was gathered and transcribed by Joanna and
Sarah Kimbler, contributed to genweb archives by Sharon Bryant - located at the
corner of 525N and Heritage Drive
in Groveland, Putnam County Indiana.
· The
Palestine Baptist Church and Cemetery, contributed by Sharon Bryant -
located three miles east of Bainbridge and one-half mile south.
Franklin Township communities include:
Carpentersville, Fincastle, Raccoon and Roachdale.
- Putnam
County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files,
portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
- Roachdale-Franklin Township Library (Carnegie)
- 100 East Washington Street - Roachdale, IN
46172-0399
Phone: (765) 522-1491
Greencastle Township communities
include: Edgewood Lake, Fox Ridge, Greencastle (the county seat) and
Limedale.
103 East Poplar Street - Greencastle, IN
46135 Phone: (765)
653-2755.
"...Cyril Johnson Room offers genealogists and historians access to the
Putnam County Historical Society materials and many other collections..."
Jackson
Township
communities include: Barnard and New Maysville.
Jefferson
Township communities include:
Belle Union and Broad
Park. Mt. Meridian
is located at the Marion and Jefferson townships border.
Madison Township communities include: Brunerstown,
Oakalla Station and Vivalia. Keytsville and Vivalia are situated at the Parke and
Putnam county line.
Putnam
County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension files,
portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and more.
Including full or partial gravestone inscriptions from the following Madison
Township cemeteries:
Carpenter
Cemetery
Cole Cemetery
Hill Cemetery
Long Branch
Cemetery
Oakalla
Cemetery
Pleasant
Hill Cemetery
Morlan Cemetery
Tucker Cemetery
Marion
Township
communities include: Fillmore. Mt. Meridian
is located at the Marion and Jefferson
townships border. Malta
Station Post Office (historical) was located near the northeastern corner of
Fillmore.
- Putnam
County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension
files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and
more.
- Fillmore
Cemetery, contributed by Sharon Bryant, from the files of the
late Virginia Brann of Greencastle, IN.
- Mt.
Carmel Cemetery, contributed by Ray Allen Nichols - located 1 1/2
Mi. S.W. of Fillmore,
Indiana, NW 1/4 S W 1/4,
Sec. 16-14-3.
- Old
Union Cemetery, contributed by Sharon Bryant - The cemetery is
presently described as "pt of the East half of the Northwest quarter
of Sec. 5, T14, R3W and is two miles northwest of Fillmore, Indiana...The
Trustees of Fillmore Christian Church are the caretakers of this
property..."
- Fillmore United Methodist
Church
Monroe Township communities include:
Bainbridge, Brick Chapel and Cary.
- Putnam
County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension
files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and
more.
- McCorkle-Hillis
Cemetery, contributed by Sharon Bryant - possibly the same as the
Piercy Cemetery, located north and east
of Bainbridge, southeast of the ABC corner (Akers, Balch and Curran).
Russell
Township
communities include: Blakesburg and Russellville.
Russellville is located in the northwestern corner of Russell township, and
Putnam county. Blakesburg is near the southeastern corner of Russell
township, west of Fincastle (see
map).
- Putnam
County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension
files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and
more.
Warren Township communities include:
Cradick Corner, Jenkinsville, Putnamville and Westland.
- See map
for the location of Westland - situated east of Putnamville.
Cradick Corner is located, on Hwy. 231, north of Cloverdale.
Jenkinsville is located, on Hwy. 243, just north of the I-70 intersection.
Washington Township
communities include: Cagles Mill, Hirt Corner, Manhattan, Pleasant
Gardens, Raab Crossroads, and Reelsville. Hirt Corner is situated at the
southwestern corner of Putnam county, at the Clay county
border (see
map). Hamricks Station Post Office (historical) was located east of
the Houck Bridge, and northwest of Putnamville (see
map).
- Putnam
County Indiana Archives - includes biographies, military pension
files, portions of the 1850-1920 marriage index, cemetery abstractions and
more.
- Lower
Boone Cemetery, researched and listed by Grace Cohn and Martha
Williams, both of Reelsville on Sept. 19, 1980. Transcribed with
permission by Grace Cohn. Mrs. Williams is deceased..
Putnam County, Indiana
Cemeteries :
Note: The following is a list of cemeteries in Putnam
county, Indiana. It is possible there may be others which are not
included below - especially such private cemeteries as family plots.
Bainbridge
Cemetery - Latitude:
394535N; Longitude: 0864741W
Bakesburg
Cemetery - Latitude:
394827N; Longitude: 0865439W
Biddle Cemetery - Latitude: 394910N;
Longitude: 0864236W
Boone Cemetery - Latitude: 393309N;
Longitude: 0865913W
Boone-Hutcheson
Cemetery - Latitude:
393513N; Longitude: 0865550W
Carmel Cemetery - Latitude: 393906N;
Longitude: 0864530W
Clear Creek Cemetery
- Latitude: 394403N; Longitude: 0864227W
Coffman Cemetery - Latitude: 394725N;
Longitude: 0864604W
Doe Creek Cemetery
- Latitude: 393002N; Longitude: 0865027W
Fillmore
Cemetery - Latitude:
394027N; Longitude: 0864528W
Flatwoods
Cemetery - Latitude:
393713N; Longitude: 0864806W
Forest Hill Cemetery
- Latitude: 393741N; Longitude: 0865126W
Forgey Cemetery - Latitude: 394924N; Longitude: 0865834W
Girton Cemetery - Latitude: 393346N;
Longitude: 0870722W
Grable Cemetery - Latitude: 392927N;
Longitude: 0865716W
Greeley Cemetery - Latitude: 392838N;
Longitude: 0865742W
Grider Cemetery - Latitude: 395049N;
Longitude: 0865333W
Groveland
Cemetery - Latitude:
394537N; Longitude: 0864343W
Hartman Cemetery - Latitude: 394704N;
Longitude: 0865202W
Hebron Cemetery - Latitude: 395019N;
Longitude: 0865752W
La Follett
Cemetery - Latitude:
395139N; Longitude: 0865449W
Landes Cemetery - Latitude: 394957N;
Longitude: 0865523W
Liberty Cemetery - Latitude: 393908N;
Longitude: 0864302W
Little Walnut
Cemetery - Latitude:
394139N; Longitude: 0865716W
Matkin Cemetery - Latitude: 393023N;
Longitude: 0865738W
Manhattan Cemetry - Latitude: 393332N;
Longitude: 0865542W
See an aerial
image or topographical map of the location of Manhattan, Indiana
(John Walden reported this cemetery and it's
coordinates, by his gps as: N39 33.536 W086
55.700. Thank you John!)
Mill Creek Cemetery
- Latitude: 393439N; Longitude: 0864245W
Mount Pleasant
Cemetery - Latitude:
394122N; Longitude: 0865004W
New Providence
Cemetery - Latitude:
393354N; Longitude: 0864508W
Nicolas Cemetery - Latitude: 395146N;
Longitude: 0865538W
Old Bethel Cemetery
- Latitude: 393502N; Longitude: 0864953W
Old Union Cemetery
- Latitude: 394054N; Longitude: 0864624W
Peffley Cemetery - Latitude: 394941N;
Longitude: 0865546W
Pickle Cemetery - Latitude: 394757N;
Longitude: 0865336W
Pisgah Cemetery - Latitude: 394805N;
Longitude: 0870021W
Randel Cemetery - Latitude: 394441N;
Longitude: 0864902W
Roachdale
Cemetery - Latitude:
395053N; Longitude: 0864641W
Salem Cemetery - Latitude: 393054N;
Longitude: 0865316W
Skillman
Cemetery - Latitude: 395038N;
Longitude: 0865443W
Sutherlin
Cemetery - Latitude:
394826N; Longitude: 0865649W
Wesley Chapel Cemetery
- Latitude: 394330N; Longitude: 0864555W
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PROFESSIONAL HISTORICAL GENEALOGY
RESEARCH
Ann McRoden
Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsite, and with the vast resources of the Allen County Public Library, holding
one of the largest genealogical collections in North America. Search the
Library's online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for a
location or topic.
Copyright 1998, 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002-2009, by Ann Mensch. All Rights Reserved.
Printed resources for this page include:
- Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer.
First Edition, Second Printing. Yarmouth, Maine:
Delorme. 1998.
- School and Library Atlas
of the World. Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore, Illinois:
School and Library Publishing Company. 1982.
- New
Sectional Township
Map of Indiana.
Chicago, Illinois : Higgins Belden & Co.,
1875.
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