Muskingum County, Ohio Genealogy

Muskingum County, Ohio
Map
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Muskingum Co. Courthouse 401 Main St. Zanesville, Ohio 43702 Muskingum County Website

United States Ohio  Muskingum County 

Historical Facts

Beginning dates for major county records
Birth	Marriage	Death	Tax	Land	Probate
1867	1804	1867		1800	1804
*For earlier dates, try... Church | Obituaries | Cemeteries

• Parent Counties: Formed from Fairfield and Washington Counties 7 January 1804.
• County Seat: Zanesville
• Neighboring Counties: Muskingum County, Ohio Genealogy residents may also have records in Coshocton (north) · Morgan (south) · Licking (west) · Guernsey (east) · Perry (southwest) · Noble (southeast)

Boundary Changes

• A part of the county was returned to Fairfield County 1817.
• Parts set off to create Coshocton 1810, Guernsey 1810, Morgan 1817.

See an interactive map of Muskingum County boundary changes.

Resources

Biography

• Pioneers of Muskingum County, Ohio

Cemeteries

LDS Cemetery Records (rural or uncertain specific location)
Vol. 1, page 139 - South Adamsville

St. Nicholas Church Zanesville, Ohio.JPG

• Prospect United Methodist Church Cemetery, Dresden BillionGraves
• Sherrods Chapel Cemetery, Muskingum BillionGraves

Church Records

Roman Catholics

• The Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio Archives
  6616 Beechmont Avenue
  Cincinnati, OH 45230 Tel: 513-231-0810
  website: Archives Genealogy Research
  

• St. Nicholas Catholic Church
  925 E. Main St.
  Zanesville, OH 43701

Lutherans

• Records kept by Carl Louis Wagner, Lutheran minister, 1920-1965 Contains baptisms, confirmations, funerals and weddings in the following locations.
  • Brandywine and Sugar Grove, Pendleton County, West Virginia
  • Zanesville and Philo, Muskingum County, Ohio
  • Eagleport, Morgan County, Ohio
  • Lake Township, Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Dixon and Amboy, Lee County, Illinois
• Muskingum County OHGenWeb Project has additional information about various church groups and their records.

Baptists

• 105 South 6th Street
• Zanesville, Ohio 43701-3608
• Phone: (740) 452-1620

Methodists

On Prospect Church Road (County Road 99). Has cemetery beside it, see 'Cemeteries' below for link with Google map, headstone images.

Directories

Muskingum County, Ohio Online Historical Directories - identifies historical city, county, business and other directories available online on both free and pay-to-access websites.

Gazetteers

• United States Geographic Survey Place Names - GNIS for Muskingum County
  (may not always be present in alphabetic order on first try.)

History

Home of the "Y" Bridge which crosses the Muskingum and Licking Rivers. The Ohio government authorized the creation of Muskingum County on January 7, 1804 and the County of Muskingum was established on 1 March 1804. Muskingum County was named from the Delaware Indian word meaning “a town near the river”.

Maps

• 1866 Atlas of Muskingum County Ohio.

Military

• Civil War
  Civil War service men from Muskingum County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Muskingum County.

- 1st Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, Company B, also known as "Laughlin's Cavalry"

- 1st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company H, also known as the Zanesville Guards 

- 97th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Companies E, F, G, and K

Newspapers

• The Zanesville Times Recorder
  34 S. Fourth St.
  Zanesville, OH 43701
  Tel: (740) 452-4561
• Coshocton Tribune
  550 Main Street
  Coshocton, OH 43812
  Tel: (740) 622-1122

Online obituaries since 27 Dec 2001

• Muskingum County Libraries, Ohio State University Library, and the Ohio Historical Society are all resources for historical newspapers. Over the years Zanesville has had it's newspaper change names many times. This Historical Newspapers article lists the names of early newspapers for Adamsville, Dresden, New Concord, and Zanesville.

County Courthouse

Muskingum County Courthouse
401 Main Street
Zanesville, OH 43701
Phone: 740.455.7104

Probate Court has birth and death records 1867-1908,
marriage and probate from 1804 and naturalization records;
County Recorder has land records from 1803 and and military
records from 1865; Clerk Court has divorce and court record
from 1804

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Zanesville Ohio Family History Center

Vital Records

Death

Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch. Records include such information as birth date of deceased, city, county, and state of death, name of spouse if married, names of parents, maiden name of mother, name of informant, if deceased was single, married, windowed or divorced, occupation of deceased.

Web Sites

• The Muskingum County OHGenWeb Project, an member of The OHGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
• The USGenWeb Archives Project for Muskingum County.
• Family History Library Catalog

Populated Places

City

• Zanesville, Ohio

Villages

Adamsville Dresden Frazeysburg Fultonham

Gratiot New Concord Norwich

Philo Roseville South Zanesville

Townships

Adams Blue Rock Brush Creek Cass Clay Falls Harrison Highland Hopewell

Jackson Jefferson Licking Madison Meigs Monroe Muskingum Newton

Perry Rich Hill Salem Salt Creek Springfield Union Washington Wayne

Communities

Adams Mills Blue Rock Chandlersville Duncan Falls East Fultonham Hopewell

Nashport North Zanesville Pleasant Grove Trinway White Cottage

Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)