What's New
I will try to keep this page up to let you know what new goodies I've added since my last update. No promises, Sometimes I just get into the "zone" and just start adding stuff. By the time I'm finished, I have no idea where all of it is. :-). The best judge of what is new or not is to check the date at the bottom of each page you visit. It should have the date that page was last updated.
- Added a photo of the old Rome School ca. early 1900s
- Added a list of deaths from Cholera extracted from 1850s Adams County newspapers
- Added a scan of a Bible "Death Records" page for the Grooms/Tomlin Family Donated by Debra Fischer.
- Added a photo of the Licking Fork UB church dedication
- Added a photo of the old Settlement School house that Will Rogers attended. It was the only segregated school in Adams County during the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s.
- Added a photo of the old Presbyterian church in Manchester. 1897.
- Added a comtemporary photo of the West Union United Presbyterian Church
- Added a photo of Pooder Hardymon's Gas Station West Union
- Added a new family page for the Swanger family.
- Added a new family page for the Grooms family.
- Added new names to the Surname page.
- Created a new Military records page and added Unit Roster for COMPANY I, 91ST OHIO VOLUNTARY INFANTRY**
- Added more marriages from the 1826 editions of the Village Register Newspaper, West Union, Adams County, Ohio. Transcribed by by Martha Richards
- Added Death Notices from 1826 Village Register Newspapers. Transcribed by by Martha Richards
- Robert Carl
- Mr. John Stephenson
- Miss Margaret Markland
- Mr. George Dillener
- Mr. Moses M'Fadden
- Mr. Joseph Bailess
- Mr. Robert L. Anderson
- Miss M'Cullough
- James Russell
- Mrs. Andrew Ellison
- Mr. Frederick Braugher
- Miss Sarah Guthrie
- Mr. Robert Ralsten
- Mr. Andrew M'Clyman
- Mrs. T.D. Davis
- Mrs. Kincaid, consort of Col. John Kincaid
- Created a page for misc. newspaper extractions manly public notices, estate sales/auctions, etc.
- Added another page for marriages and updated the links to the other marriage pages.
- Added more transcriptions from the Village Register Newspaper, West Union. Submitted by Martha Richards
- Added a new Mathany Family index page
- Created a new Death Notices page
- Added a lot of new marriage and death entries transcribed from 1820s issues of the Village Register, West Union. Ohio, by Martha Richards
- Added a third Marriage page
- Added quite a few new entires to the Newspaper Clippings page
- Added seven new marriage records from the Village Register, West Union, 1823.
- Moved this page to a new server.
- I'm starting to add transcriptions of early Adams, Co., OH newspapers. Martha Richards is doing the transcriptions. Thanks Martha for your hard work!
- Added five marriage announcements from the Village Register, West Union, 1823.
- Added a photo of a possible hog butchering ca. 1920s. Contributed by Lisa Williams.
- Added several new names to the surname page. The newest are at the bottom.
- Added a few new links to the links page
- Added two new lookup sources to the lookup page.
- Added a Maddox Family Page
- Added a Johnson Family Page
- Added a transcript to the cemetery page of the 24 graves in the Naylor, also known as Reed Cemetery, on Gift Ridge.
- Created an Obituary page and added one obit.
- Added a new Kelley Family page
- Added the Collings Cemetery It is mentioned in the Evan Stivers Book on Adams Co. OH. and is located under the water tower in West Union. Many
Collings and a few other families buried there. I do not have any other information on this cemetery at this time.
Added Clark Blake to the surname page. He is researching the Grooms and Blake families.