Crawford County, Ohio Genealogy

Guide to Crawford County Ohio genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Crawford County, Ohio
Map
Location of Ohio in the U.S.
Courthouse
Address	Crawford County Courthouse 112 E. Mansfield St. Bucyrus, Ohio 44820 Crawford County Website

United States Ohio Crawford County

Historical Facts

Beginning dates for major county records
Birth	Marriage	Death	Tax	Land	Probate
1866	1831	1868		1816	1831
*For earlier dates, try... Church | Obituaries | Cemeteries

• Parent Counties: Formed from Delaware County 12 February 1820.
• County Seat: Bucyrus
• Neighboring Counties: Crawford County, Ohio Genealogy residents may also have records in Seneca(north) · Huron (northeast) · Richland (east) · Marion(southwest) · Morrow (southeast) · Wyandot (west)

Boundary Changes

• 1835: Six miles on the western side was added from the Wyndot Indian Reservation.

• 1842: The last of the Wyandot Reservation was purchased and added to the county.

• 1845: Wyandot County was formed from an 18-mile strip from western Crawford County. A 4-by-20-mile strip was added on the eastern side from Richland County.
  A 2-by-16-mile strip was added on the south from Marion County.

• 1848: A 1-by-7-mile strip on the county's southeast was given to Morrow County at that county's formation.
  This finalized the boundaries of Crawford County. 

See an interactive map of Crawford County boundary changes.

Resources

Cemeteries

List and Location of Cemeteries by Townships

Name(s)	Township	Location
Baseline, St.John's Reformed	Lykens	Rt. 14 between Gundy's Mill and Millers roads
Benton, Poplar	Texas
Biddle, Cole, Swisher	Sandusky
Blowers	Liberty
Brenner	Chatfield	Connely and Cary roads
Brillhart, North Union, Tabor	Chatfield	Rt. 14 and Brillhart Road
Brokensword, Albright	Holmes
Brown, Lee	Lykens
Buchman	Chatfield	Rt. 4 south of Silver Creek
Bucyrus Mausoleum	Bucyrus City
Burgbacher	Chatfield	?
Campbell	Whetstone
Chatfield Villiage	Chatfield	Rt. 103 west of Chatfield Villiage
City Cemetery	Bucyrus City
Clark, Coulter	Whetstone
College Hill, Reformed	Chatfield	Rt. 4 and Albaugh Road
Conley, Charlton	Liberty
Crall, Liberty Chapel	Liberty
Crawford Co. Mem. Gardens	Jefferson
Dapper, German Lutheran	Vernon
Dickenson, Dekalb	Vernon
Durr	Whetstone
Eden	Texas
Fairview BillionGraves	Galion City
Freewill Baptist	Lykens
Galion Mausoleum	Galion City
Gifford	Whetstone
Gledhill	Jefferson
Goodwill	Auburn
Hanna, Auburn	Auburn
Heller	Jefferson
Holy Trinity	Bucyrus City
County Infirmary	Whetstone
Kennedy	Lykens
Kruse	Liberty
Leesville	Jefferson
Liberty	Vernon
Line	Polk
Loss Creek, Knisley	Sandusky
Luke	Sandusky
Martin Luther, Streib	Tod
Middletown, Miller	Jefferson
Moffet, Klink	Chatfield
Monnett Chapel	Bucyrus
Mount Calvary	Galion City
Mount Zion	Bucyrus
Nature Preserve	Texas
Nazereth Lutheran, German Lutheran	Chatfield
North Auburn, Honey Creek, Our Mother of Sorrows (Catholic)	Auburn
Oakland, Tiro	Auburn
Oakwood	Bucyrus City
Oceola Methodist Episcopal	Tod
Oceola Tod Township	Tod
Oceola United Brethern	Tod
Old Chatfield Lutheran	Chatfield
Old Olentangy	Whetstone
Olentangy, Kile, Dinkle	Whetstone
Park	Polk
Pletcher	Polk
Quaker (Friends)	Holmes
Remer	Dallas
Roop (Rupp)	Liberty
Salem, Cook, Kiess, Wagner	Whetstone
Sandusky	Sandusky
Seery	Lykens
Sherer, Plains	Whetstone
Shroll	Whetstone
Sixteen, Sixteen English	Whetstone
Smith	Jefferson
Smith-Eulis, Haynes, Mays Farm	Chatfield
Spore, Bethel, Reiff	Holmes
St. Bernard (Catholic)	Cranberry
St. John's Lutheran	Cranberry
St. Paul's Lutheran, Shealy	Liberty
St. Paul's Reformed, Lober, Bilsing	Vernon
Stewart	Whetstone
Stoltz	Bucyrus
Swabb	Cranberry
Swail, Cory, Hertzer, Miller	Auburn
Swale	Cranberry
Talbot, Barnes-Talbot	Jackson
Tiro Mausoleum	Auburn
Tracht	Jefferson
Tustison	Sandusky
Union, Tiffin Street, Pioneer's	Bucyrus City
Union-New Washington	Cranberry
Union	Liberty
Whetstone	Whetstone
White	Dallas
Windfall Lutheran	Chatfield
Windfall, Little Windfall	Jefferson
Yeiter, Bittikofer, Hope	Liberty
Young, Shroll	Bucyrus
Zoar, Schneider	Polk

Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

Online Grave Transcripts	Published Grave Transcripts	County Cemetery Directories
Findagrave.com	Family History Library	Findagrave.com
Interment.net	WorldCat	Names in Stone
USGenWeb		Billion Graves
Billion Graves		Epodunk
Ohio Gravestones
Names in Stone

See Ohio Cemeteries for more information.

Church Records

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. For general information about Ohio denominations, see Ohio Church Records.

Catholic

• 1796–2004 Ohio, Diocese of Toledo, Catholic Parish Records, 1796-2004 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection includes images of parish registers recording the events of baptism, first communion, confirmation, marriage, and death in the Diocese of Toledo (Ohio), Roman Catholic Church. These records are accessed by browsing the images by county. In addition to traditional parish registers, this collection includes miscellaneous cemetery records, Books of the Elect, Professions of Faith, Sick Call registers, etc.
  

History

Local histories are available for Crawford County, Ohio Genealogy. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Ohio Local Histories.

Local History

• Perrin, William Henry, History of Crawford County and Ohio: containing a history of the state of Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time (Chicago : Baskin ; Battey, 1881) Digital version at Google Books; Internet Archives; on microfilm at FHL film 962586.
• Hopley, John E. History of Crawford County, Ohio, and representative citizens (Chicago : Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1912) Digital version at Internet Archives; book available at FHL book 977.127 H2h v.1 & v.2.
• A centennial biographical history of Crawford County, Ohio (Chicago : The Lewis Publishing Company, 1902) Digital version at Internet Archives.

Land and Property

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.

See Ohio Land and Property for additional information about early Ohio land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.

Military

• Civil War
  Civil War servicemen from Crawford 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 Crawford County.

- 1st Independent Battery, Ohio Light Artillery (a battery is like a company in an artillery regiment)

Newspapers

Finding More Ohio Newspapers
Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Crawford County Ohio newspapers in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• Do a Crawford County, Ohio Place-name search for these and other records in the FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search). Online Newspapers
  Online Newspaper Abstracts
  Newspaper Extracts and Abstracts in Book Form
  

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Ohio, Crawford County Obituaries (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Probate

• 1790–1967 - Ohio, Probate Records, 1790-1967 at FamilySearch Historical Records – free. This collection consists of probate records and estate files from county courthouses in Ohio. The content and time period varies by county, with more records being added as they become available. This Collection will include records from 1789 to 1996. Currently, (September 2012) the collection is only searchable by browsing the images. A list of Fires that have destroyed records in the courthouses of several counties are listed on the Record Description page.
  

Finding More Probate Records

Additional probate records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Crawford County, Ohio Genealogy Probate Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Repositories

Courthouse

Crawford County Courthouse
112 E Mansfield Street
Bucyrus, OH 44820
Phone: 419.562.2766 

City and County Health Department has birth and
death records from 1908; Probate Judge has birth
and death records 1867-1908, marriage and probate
records from 1831; County recorder has land records;
Clerk Court has divorce and court records from 1834

Family History Centers

FamilySearch Centers are branches of the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are located all over the world. Their goal is to provide resources for family history research.

The main FamilySearch Center for Crawford County, Ohio Genealogy is the

Clear Fork Ohio Family History Center

For additional nearby Family History Centers, search online in the FHC directory. Put your town name in the top search box. 

Societies

Crawford county Chapter OGS
P.O. Box 1033 Bucyrus, Ohio 4482

Taxation

Ohio tax records complement land records and can be used in place of censuses before 1820 or to supplement the years between censuses. Because only persons who owned taxable property were listed, many residents were not included in tax lists. There may also be gaps of several years in the tax records of some counties.

Finding More Tax Records

Additional tax records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Crawford County, Ohio Genealogy Tax Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Vital Records

Vital records consist of birth, death, marriage and divorce records. Marriages were usually recorded from the formation of the county and are held at the office of the County Probate Court. Divorce records are located with the county Clerk of Courts.

Any existing birth and death records from 1867 through December 19, 1908 are located at the County Probate Court. The Ohio Department of Health has birth records filed after December 20, 1908 and death records filed after January 1, 1954, while the Ohio History Connection houses death records from December 20, 1908 through December 31, 1953.

Birth

Online Birth Indexes and Records

• various years - community contributed births Courtesy OhioGenWeb Archives

Original Birth Records on Microfilm

Marriage

Online Marriage Indexes and Records

Original Marriage Records on Microfilm

Death

Online Death Indexes and Records

• 1908-1953 - Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953 Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch. Records include such information as birthdate 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; and occupation of deceased.
• various years - community contributed death records Courtesy OhioGenWeb Archives

Original Death Records on Microfilm

Divorce

Finding More Vital Records

Additional vital records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Crawford County, Ohio Genealogy Vital Records in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
• FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).

Web Sites

• Family History Library Catalog

Places

Populated Places

• Bucyrus
• Galion
• Crestline
• New Washington
• Leesville
• Oceola
• New Winchester
• Tiro
• North Robinson
• Sulphur Springs
• Broken Sword
• Chatfield
• Lykens

Townships (Current)

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• Auburn
• Bucyrus
• Chatfield
• Cranberry
• Dallas
• Holmes
• Jackson
• Jefferson
• Liberty
• Lykens
• Polk
• Sandusky
• Texas
• Tod
• Vernon
• Whetstone