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Phone: 260.563.2972
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Wabash County Resources

In-House Resources

These resources and additional ones can be found in the Online Catalog.
A link to the catalog is on the left hand side of the web page.

   Wabash County History
Atlas of Wabash County Indiana 1875
Biographical Memoirs of Wabash County Indiana 1902
History of Lagro: the town, the school, the community
In & Around Urbana by Mary Ann Mast
Faces & Places in Wabash County
Meet Mr. Wabash at Mid-Century
Manual of Wabash-Butler 1899
History of Wabash County Indiana 1884
History of Wabash County Indiana 1914
History of Wabash County Indiana 1976

   Indexes
Marriage Records of Wabash County, Indiana 1835 - 1957
Index to Indiana Federal Census, 1820, 1830, 1840
Wabash County Census, 1850,1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930
Index to records of the Indiana Soldiers & Sailors Children's Home in the Indiana state Archives (edited by Ruth Dorrel)

   Wabash County Obituaries
1955
1958
1958-2001 (excluding 2000)

   Wabash County Death Records
July 1939 to October 1949
1968 & early death records of Wabash County

   Wabash County Death Notices
May 1877-April 1894
1881-1893
Obituaries from the North Manchester News-Journal: 1998-2002
Wabash County burials from 1990-2004 by Ronald L. Woodward

   Wabash County Birth Records
Wabash County Birth Records of Dr. Robert LaSalle, Sr. 1871-1886
January 1882-December 1933
December 1886-August 1897
City-County 1896-1907
1928-1940

   Wabash County Cemetery Records
Cemeteries for Paw Paw and Pleasant Townships
Cemetery records for Chester Township
Fall Cemetery 1838-1971
Interments in Falls Cemetery, 1972-2004 by Ronald L. Woodward
Half-Acre (Paw Paw Christian) Church
Hopewell Cemetery
Lagro Township cemeteries
Liberty Township cemeteries
Matlock Cemetery Records, 1876-1981
Mississinewa Memorial Cemetery
Noble Township cemeteries
Paw Paw Township cemeteries
Pleasant Township cemeteries
Records relating to the Rodef Sholem Cemetery
Waltz Township cemeteries

   Wabash County Funeral Homes
Abstracts from Bender Funeral Home, North Manchester, Indiana
Abstracts from Jones Funeral Home, Wabash, Indiana
Abstracts from Hoover-Miner Chapel, Wabash, Indiana
Wire Funeral Home Records, Wabash, Indiana--1930 - 1959
Hunter Funeral Home Records, Lafontaine, Indiana
Grandstaff Funeral Home Records, Roann, Indiana--1932-1997
Delaughter Funeral Home Records, Wabash, Indiana 1968-1998

   Family Histories
240+ Volumes

   Wabash Area Directories:
Containing an alphabetical list of private citizen and business firms, street and avenue guide, city and county officials, churches, etc.
Wabash and North Manchester Directory - 1897-1898
Wabash and North Manchester Directory - 1901-1902
Wabash City Directory - 1904
The Standard Directory and Reference Book of Wabash County - 1907-1908
Wabash City and County Directory - 1910, 1912-13, 1914-15, 1918-19
Wabash City Directory - 1924, 1940, 1945, 1948, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963,1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, and 1997

   Plat Books

1949, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006

   Other Materials
Urbana Post Times
Wabash High School Alumni Directory 1872-2002
High School yearbooks
Wabash & Erie Canal, Notebook I : Allen & Huntington Counties by Thomas E. Castaldi
Wabash & Erie Canal, Notebook II : Cass, Carroll & Tippecanoe Counties by Thomas E. Castaldi
Wabash & Erie Canal, Notebook III : Wabash & Miami Counties by Thomas E. Castaldi
Early Wabash County Doctors & their medicinal herbs by Ronald L. Woodward
Retailers bonds of Wabash County, 1887-1892 by Ronald L. Woodward.
Collection of Wabash County Bible Records, rev. 2004, compiled by Ronald L. Woodward.
Watching Wabash Grow : businesses of 1881 by Ronald L. Woodward
Family Branches Newsletter of the Wabash County Genealogy Society, Volume IV
Atlas of Wabash County, Indiana, 1875 reprint

   Microfilm Resources

Wabash County Census: 1820, 1840 - 1930 (1890 excluded)
Wabash High School yearbooks, various years between 1915-1992
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
North Manchester Journal: May 1877 to April 1894
LaFontaine Herald: December 1931 to June 1933

   Wabash Newspapers
1846-Current
Upper Wabash Argus: July 1846 to June 1847
Sunday Morning Call: June 1892 to December 1893
Wabash Tribune: February 1865 to February 1867
Wabash Free Trader: July 1873 to April 1876
Wabash Weekly Gazette: June to March 1858
Wabash Weekly Courier: May 1876 to April 1887
Wabash Weekly Intelligencer: April 1854 to December 1864
Wabash Republican: March 1869 to July 1874
Wabash Daily Times-Star : November 1909 to December 1911
Wabash Plain Dealer & Times-Star: January 1926 to December 1936

   Wabash Plain Dealer
August 1859 to January 1865
January 1866 to March 1869
August 1874 to December 1888
February 1890 to December 1910
January 1912 to December 1925
January 1937-current

List of Oral History CDs

Cemetery Locations