MARTIN COUNTY, Indiana
*First created in 1820.
*County seat: Shoals.
Located in southern Indiana.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Blankenship, Bramble,
Burns City, Cale,
Crane, Dover Hill,
Hindostan Falls, Huffs,
Indian Springs, Ironton,
Lacy, Loogootee, Mountain Springs P.O., Mt.
Olive, Natchez, Pleasant
Valley, Quarry, Rusk,
Scenic Hill, Shoals,
South Martin, Trinity
Springs, Whitfield, Willow
Valley, Windom, and Yenne.
The town of Roland
is situated at the Lost River Township,
Martin county and French
Lick Township,
Orange county line.
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Surrounding Counties:
N = Green
County, IN
W = Daviess
County, IN MARTIN COUNTY
NE = Lawrence
County, IN
S = Dubois
County, IN SE = Orange County,
IN
· Interactive Present
day Map
of Martin County, Indiana.
· INDOT: Map of Martin County,
Indiana
· 1895 Map of Martin County, Indiana,
by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net
· 1875 Map of Martin
County, Indiana, from Higgins Belden & Co. ( see
citation )
· INGenWeb for Martin County Genealogy
by Michael L Tedrow.
· GenWeb Archives for Martin
County, Indiana
P. O. Box 45 -
Shoals, IN 47581.
505 High Street -
Shoals, IN 47581 E-mail: <nbaker@dmrtc.net>.
· Martin County History and
Pioneer Families, online by Ronald Branson of countyhistory.com!
· Martin
County Tourism
· History and
Legends
· Use the query form, at USGS,
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feature. This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there
may be errors.
· The Political Graveyard,
for Martin County,
Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site
about U.S.
political history, politicians and cemeteries.
· Hoosier
National Forest - See Map -
The Hoosier National Forest extends into the eastern Martin County
townships.
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1880
Census Index, by familysearch.org
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1820 Indiana
Census Index, by Lori!
· Martin County, Indiana
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· Martin
County, Indiana Chamber of Commerce
123 Cooper Street
Loogootee, IN 47553
(812)295-4093
· History
of Martin County
· Loogootee Public
Library
J. F. K. Avenue - Loogootee,
IN 47553
Phone: (812) 295-3713.
· Shoals Public Library
Fourth and High Streets - P. O. Box 909 - Hwy. 50 East - Shoals,
IN 47581 Phone: (812) 247-3838.
- Martin County
Courthouse (For Marriage, Divorce & Probate Records)
- 111 Main St. (Annex) - Shoals, IN
47581
- County Recorder
(For Land Records, such as Deeds and Land Transfers)
- P.O. Box 147 -
Shoals, IN Phone: (812) 247-2420.
- County Clerk
(for marriage records)
- (mailing address)
P.O. Box 120 - Shoals, IN 47581 Phone: (812) 247-3651.
- Information and picture
· Martin County Health Department
(For Birth & Death Certificates from ca. 1882)
· P.O. Box 716 - Shoals, IN 47581-0239
Phone: (812) 247-3303.
Martin County Communities
Baker Township
encompasses a large portion of the Crane
Naval Weapons
Center in addition to a small corner
of the Hoosier National Forest.
The Crane Naval
Weapons Center
extends into Baker, Brown
and McCameron Townships,
of Martin county, and the southern edge of Greene County.
Though the area is now within the Crane
Navel Weapons
Center, Mountain
Springs P.O., an historical post office, was located near Sulphur Creek, in
Baker Township.
Cemeteries include:
Bridges Cemetery - Latitude: 384911N; Longitude:
0864626W
located in near the Mitcheltree
Township border, in southern Baker Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Bridges Cemetery - Latitude: 385233N; Longitude:
0864332W
located in Baker
Township, within the
present Crane Naval Base.
Brock Cemetery
- Latitude: 385124N; Longitude: 0864722W
located in western Baker Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Chandler Cemetery - Latitude: 385059N; Longitude:
0864447W
located in central Baker Township, within the present
Crane Naval Base.
Dogtrot Cemetery - Latitude: 385326N; Longitude:
0864413W
located in Baker
Township, within the
present Crane Naval Base.
Jackson Cemetery - Latitude: 385322N; Longitude:
0864401W
located in Baker
Township, within the
present Crane Naval Base.
Mountain Spring Cemetery
- Latitude: 385144N; Longitude: 0864434W
located in central Baker Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
- Latitude: 385214N; Longitude: 0864628W
located in western Baker Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Rector Cemetery - Latitude: 385315N; Longitude:
0864222W
located in Baker
Township, within the
present Crane Naval Base.
Roberts Cemetery - Latitude: 385412N; Longitude:
0864433W
located in Baker
Township, near the Martin
and Greene counties boundary, within the present Crane Naval Base.
Uno-Paton Cemetery - Latitude: 385106N; Longitude:
0864353W
located in central Baker Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Wagner Cemetery
- Latitude: 385120N; Longitude: 0864132W
located in eastern Baker Township,
near the Martin and Lawrence counties' boundary, which is within the present
Crane Naval Base.
Brown
Township
communities include: Bramble. The Crane
Naval Weapons
Center extends into Baker, Brown and McCameron Townships,
of Martin county, and the southern edge of Greene County.
Cemeteries include:
Boggs Creek
Cemetery - Latitude:
384745N; Longitude: 0865025W
located in Brown
Township, which is within
the present Crane Naval Base.
Henry Cemetery
- Latitude: 384655N; Longitude: 0864956W
located in central Brown Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Little Hickory Ridge Cemetery
- Latitude: 384717N; Longitude: 0864741W - located west-southwest of Indian
Springs, near the Brown and Mitcheltree
Townships boundary,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Saint Joseph Cemetery - Latitude: 384625N; Longitude:
0865301W -
located northeast of Loogootee, near Bramble, in Brown Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
West Union
Cemetery - Latitude:
384517N; Longitude: 0864913W -
located in central Brown Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Williams Cemetery - Latitude: 384832N; Longitude:
0865255W -
located southeast of Burns
City, in northwestern Brown Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Center
Township communities include:
Dover Hill, Hindostan Falls and Pleasant
Valley.
Cemeteries include:
Hall Cemetery
- Latitude: 383923N; Longitude: 0864931W -
located southwest of Shoals, in Center Township.
McBrides Cemetery - Latitude: 384353N; Longitude: 0864634W -
located near the E. Fork of White River, north of Shoals,
and east of Dover Hill, in Center Township.
Sholts Cemetery
- Latitude: 383820N; Longitude: 0864952W -
located southwest of Shoals, in Center Township.
Halbert
Township communities include:
Ironton, Lacy, Natchez, Shoals and Willow Valley.
The Hoosier National Forest
extends into the eastern Martin
County townships (See
Map
).
Cemeteries include:
Acre Cemetery
- Latitude: 383811N; Longitude: 0864419W -
located southeast of Shoals, in Halbert Township.
Baxter Cemetery
- Latitude: 384003N; Longitude: 0864310W -
located east of Shoals, in Halbert Township.
Elliott Cemetery - Latitude: 384020N; Longitude: 0864128W
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located east of Shoals, in Halbert
Township, near the Lawrence county border.
Hawkins Cemetery - Latitude: 383615N; Longitude: 0864328W
-
located southwest of Natchez,
in southern Halbert Township, near the Lost River Township boundary.
Pridemore
Cemetery - ? Do you know the location? Is it known
by another name? Please e-mail Ann
Union Cemetery
- Latitude: 383843N; Longitude: 0864131W -
located southeast of Shoals, in Halbert
Township, near the Lawrence county border.
Lost River Township
communities include: Rusk, Windom and Yenne. The town of Roland is situated at the Lost
River Township,
Martin county and French
Lick Township,
Orange county line. The Hoosier
National Forest extends into the eastern Martin County
townships (See Map ).
Cemeteries include:
Anderson Cemetery - Latitude: 383411N; Longitude:
0864320W -
located west of West Baden Springs, in northeast Lost River
Township.
Cornel Cemetery
- Latitude: 383318N; Longitude: 0864423W -
located west of French Lick, and east of Rusk, in Lost River
Township.
Emmons Ridge
Cemetery - Latitude:
383223N; Longitude: 0864205W -
located west of French Lick, in southeastern Lost River
Township.
Green Cemetery
- Latitude: 383358N; Longitude: 0864954W -
located in western Lost River Township.
Jones Cemetery
- Latitude: 383236N; Longitude: 0864448W -
located in south central Lost River Township.
Simmons Cemetery - Latitude: 383149N; Longitude:
0864643W -
located in southern Lost
River Township,
near the Dubois County line.
Walker Cemetery
- Latitude: 383444N; Longitude: 0864512W -
located near Rusk, in northern Lost River Township.
McCameron
Township communities include: Burns City
and Crane. McCameron Township also encompasses a large portion of the
Crane Naval Weapons Center, which also extends into Baker
and Brown Townships, of Martin county, and the
southern edge of Greene County. A cemetery
by the name of Blankenship appears in McCameron Township.
Though the area is now within the Crane
Navel Weapons
Center, it is likely the town of that
name was historically located in/near the cemetery's location, at the McCameron
and Brown Townships line. Huffs appears to
have been situated just east of Blankenship. (See 1895 Map)
Cemeteries include:
Blankenship Cemetery - Latitude: 385006N; Longitude:
0864856W -
appears to be located in McCameron Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Carr Cemetery
- Latitude: 385028N; Longitude: 0864909W -
located in McCameron
Township, which is within
the present Crane Naval Base.
Holt Cemetery
- Latitude: 385034N; Longitude: 0865221W -
located in western McCameron Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Ledgerwood Cemetery - Latitude: 385330N; Longitude:
0865330W -
located near Crane, in northwestern McCameron Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Salem Cemetery - Latitude: 385209N; Longitude:
0865000W -
located south of Greenwood
Lake, in central McCameron Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Waggoner Cemetery - Latitude: 385224N; Longitude:
0864842W -
located southeast of Greenwood
Lake, in central McCameron Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Mitcheltree Township communities
include: Cale, Indian Springs, Mt.
Olive and Trinity
Springs. A portion of Mitcheltree
Township is presently
within the Crane Naval Base.
Cemeteries include:
Clarke Cemetery
- Latitude: 384410N; Longitude: 0864301W -
located in southeastern Mitcheltree Township.
Perry Township communities include:
Loogootee, Scenic Hill and Whitfield.
Cemeteries include:
Brook Cemetery - Latitude: 383859N; Longitude: 0865340W -
located southeast of Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Goodwill Cemetery - Latitude: 384118N; Longitude:
0865457W -
located in Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Houghton Cemetery - Latitude: 383903N; Longitude:
0865351W -
located southeast of Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Love Cemetery
- Latitude: 384224N; Longitude: 0865308W -
located northeast of Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Saint Johns Cemetery - Latitude: 384107N; Longitude:
0865431W -
located at Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Woods Cemetery
- Latitude: 384259N; Longitude: 0865451W -
located north of Loogootee, east of W. Boggs Lake, off Hwy.
231, in Perry Township.
Rutherford
Township
communities include: South Martin.
Cemeteries include:
Holtsglaw Cemetery - Latitude: 383556N; Longitude:
0865131W -
located south of Haw Creek, in northern Rutherford Township.
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Martin
County Cemeteries
Acre Cemetery
- Latitude: 383811N; Longitude: 0864419W -
located southeast of Shoals, in Halbert Township.
Anderson Cemetery - Latitude: 383411N; Longitude:
0864320W -
located west of West Baden Springs, in northeast Lost River
Township.
Baxter Cemetery - Latitude: 384003N; Longitude:
0864310W -
located east of Shoals, in Halbert Township.
Blankenship Cemetery - Latitude: 385006N; Longitude:
0864856W -
appears to be located in McCameron Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Boggs Creek
Cemetery - Latitude: 384745N;
Longitude: 0865025W -
located in Brown
Township, which is
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Bridges Cemetery - Latitude: 384911N; Longitude:
0864626W -
located in near the Mitcheltree
Township border, in southern Baker Township, which is within the present
Crane Naval Base.
Bridges Cemetery - Latitude: 385233N; Longitude:
0864332W -
located in Baker
Township, within the
present Crane Naval Base.
Brock Cemetery
- Latitude: 385124N; Longitude: 0864722W -
located in western Baker Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Brook Cemetery - Latitude: 383859N; Longitude: 0865340W
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located southeast of Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Carr Cemetery
- Latitude: 385028N; Longitude: 0864909W -
located in McCameron
Township, which is
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Chandler Cemetery - Latitude: 385059N; Longitude:
0864447W -
located in central Baker Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Clarke Cemetery - Latitude: 384410N; Longitude:
0864301W -
located in southeastern Mitcheltree Township.
Cornel Cemetery - Latitude: 383318N; Longitude:
0864423W -
located west of French Lick, and east of Rusk, in Lost River
Township.
Dogtrot Cemetery - Latitude: 385326N; Longitude:
0864413W -
located in Baker
Township, within the
present Crane Naval Base.
Elliott Cemetery - Latitude: 384020N; Longitude:
0864128W -
located east of Shoals, in Halbert
Township, near the Lawrence county border.
Emmons Ridge Cemetery
- Latitude: 383223N; Longitude: 0864205W -
located west of French Lick, in southeastern Lost River
Township.
Goodwill Cemetery - Latitude: 384118N; Longitude:
0865457W -
located in Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Green Cemetery
- Latitude: 383358N; Longitude: 0864954W -
located in western Lost River
Township.
Hall Cemetery
- Latitude: 383923N; Longitude: 0864931W -
located southwest of Shoals, in Center Township.
Hawkins Cemetery - Latitude: 383615N; Longitude:
0864328W -
located southwest of Natchez,
in southern Halbert Township, near the Lost River
Township boundary.
Henry Cemetery
- Latitude: 384655N; Longitude: 0864956W -
located in central Brown Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Holt Cemetery
- Latitude: 385034N; Longitude: 0865221W -
located in western McCameron Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Holtsglaw Cemetery - Latitude: 383556N; Longitude:
0865131W -
located south of Haw Creek, in northern Rutherford Township.
Houghton Cemetery - Latitude: 383903N; Longitude:
0865351W -
located southeast of Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Jackson Cemetery - Latitude: 385322N; Longitude:
0864401W -
located in Baker
Township, within the
present Crane Naval Base.
Jones Cemetery
- Latitude: 383236N; Longitude: 0864448W -
located in south central Lost River
Township.
Ledgerwood Cemetery - Latitude: 385330N; Longitude:
0865330W -
located near Crane, in northwestern McCameron Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Little Hickory Ridge Cemetery
- Latitude: 384717N; Longitude: 0864741W -
located west-southwest of Indian Springs, near the Brown
and Mitcheltree
Townships boundary,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Love Cemetery
- Latitude: 384224N; Longitude: 0865308W -
located northeast of Loogootee, in Perry Township.
McBrides Cemetery - Latitude: 384353N; Longitude: 0864634W -
located near the E. Fork of White River, north of Shoals,
and east of Dover Hill, in Center Township.
Mountain Spring Cemetery
- Latitude: 385144N; Longitude: 0864434W -
located in central Baker Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
- Latitude: 385214N; Longitude: 0864628W -
located in western Baker Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Rector Cemetery - Latitude: 385315N; Longitude:
0864222W -
located in Baker
Township, within the
present Crane Naval Base.
Roberts Cemetery - Latitude: 385412N; Longitude:
0864433W -
located in Baker
Township, near the
Martin and Greene counties boundary, within the present Crane Naval Base.
Saint Johns Cemetery - Latitude: 384107N; Longitude:
0865431W -
located at Loogootee, in Perry Township.
Saint Joseph Cemetery - Latitude: 384625N; Longitude:
0865301W -
located northeast of Loogootee, near Bramble, in Brown Township, within the present Crane
Naval Base.
Salem Cemetery
- Latitude: 385209N; Longitude: 0865000W -
located south of Greenwood
Lake, in central McCameron Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Sholts Cemetery - Latitude: 383820N; Longitude:
0864952W -
located southwest of Shoals, in Center Township.
Simmons Cemetery - Latitude: 383149N; Longitude:
0864643W -
located in southern Lost
River Township,
near the Dubois
County line.
Union Cemetery
- Latitude: 383843N; Longitude: 0864131W -
located southeast of Shoals, in Halbert Township,
near the Lawrence
county border.
Uno-Paton Cemetery - Latitude: 385106N; Longitude:
0864353W -
located in central Baker Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Waggoner Cemetery - Latitude: 385224N; Longitude:
0864842W -
located southeast of Greenwood
Lake, in central McCameron Township,
which is within the present Crane Naval Base.
Wagner Cemetery - Latitude: 385120N; Longitude:
0864132W -
located in eastern Baker Township,
near the Martin and Lawrence counties' boundary, which is within the present Crane
Naval Base.
Walker Cemetery - Latitude: 383444N; Longitude:
0864512W -
located near Rusk, in northern Lost River
Township.
Wards Cemetery
- Latitude: 384826N; Longitude: 0864727W -
located northwest of Indian Springs, in Mitcheltree Township,
near the Brown Township boundary, and within the
present Crane Naval Base.
West Union
Cemetery - Latitude: 384517N;
Longitude: 0864913W -
located in central Brown Township,
within the present Crane Naval Base.
Williams Cemetery - Latitude: 384832N; Longitude:
0865255W -
located southeast of Burns
City, in northwestern Brown Township, within the present Crane
Naval Base.
Woods Cemetery
- Latitude: 384259N; Longitude: 0865451W -
located north of Loogootee, east of W. Boggs Lake, off
Hwy. 231, in Perry
Township.
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