From: Ellen J Choate <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected],[email protected] Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:39:00 -0800 Subject: courthouse fires Message-ID: <[email protected]> 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