Tooele County, Utah Genealogy
United States 
Utah Tooele County
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| Tooele County, Utah | |
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| Founded | March 3, 1852 |
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| County Seat | Tooele |
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| Named for: [1] | |
Quick Facts
Parent Counties
1852--Tooele County was created 3 March 1852 as an original county.
County seat: Tooele [1]
Neighboring Counties
Box Elder | Davis | Juab | Salt Lake | Utah | Weber | Nevada counties: Elko | White Pine
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
Resources
Bible Records
Biography
Business Records and Commerce
Cemeteries
Tooele county cemeteries at the Utah State Historical site
LDS Cemetery Records
US Vol. 21 page 188 - Mercur Cemetery
USGenWeb Archives Tooele County, Utah gives names of individuals buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery from 1849 - 1867 and later removed to the New Cemetery.
USGenWeb Archives Tooele County, Utah provides information on the Woodmen of the World burials
Census
The 1850 [1851], 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. federal population schedules of Tooele County are available online. For tips on accessing census records online, see Utah Census. If you're having trouble finding your ancestors in national indexes, try checking local indexes. Created by experts familiar with the area's families, these indexes are often transcribed more accurately than nationwide indexes.
See Utah Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book for more information about statewide printed indexes.
- 1850 (1851)
- 1856
- 1860
- 1870
- 1880
- 1890
- 1900
- 1910
- 1920
- 1930
USGenWeb Archives of Tooele County, Utah provides the 1850 census records
Church Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records
- Benmore
- Burmeister
- Clover
- Deep Creek
- Erda
- Grantsville
- Grantsville 1
- Grantsville 2
- Iosepa
- Lake Point
- Lake View
- Mercur
- Ophir
- St. John
- Stockton
- Tod Park
- Tooele
- Tooele 1
- Tooele 2
- Tooele 3
- Tooele 4
- Tooele 5
- Tooele 6
- Tooele 7
- Tooele 8
- Tooele 9
- Tooele 10
- Tooele N.
- Tooele S.
- Vernon
- Wendover
Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Tooele County Wards and Branches can be found on film and are located at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the Family History Library Catalog at https://www.familysearch.org/. Or by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. (FHL book 979.2258 A3j; fiche 6031507). These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.
Court Records
Directories
Ethnic and Other Groups
Gazetteers
Genealogy
History
Interesting facts
This county was originally spelled "Tuilla" and is still pronounced that way by locals.
Wendover Air Force Base, now closed, was the training base of the Enola Gay crew which dropped the first atomic weapon in 1945.
History Timeline
NOTE: Unless otherwise mentioned, the events below were gleaned from Wikipedia for Tooele County.
- 1849. Mormons established the first white settlement in the area.
- 1850 January. Tooele County formed as one of six original counties in Deseret, later called Utah Territory
- 1850's–1860's. Troubles between white settlers and Goshute Indians.
- 1852. By this year, Grantsville, Batesville, and Pine Canyon (later called Lincoln) were settled by Mormons.
- 1855. Richville named as county seat.
- 1861. Territory of Nevada created, establishing the permanent western border of Tooele County.
- 1861. County seat moved to Tooele City.
- 1864. Gold, silver, lead, and zinc were discovered in Tooele County, spurring an influx of non-Mormons to the area.
- Before 1874. The county courthouse was built.
- 1874–1879. The Republic of Tooele was established by non-Mormon politicians. Only taxpayers were allowed to vote, and there were complaints of fraud. The recorder's office was even jeopardized!
- 1876. Territorial legislature passed a bill requiring voter registration and women's suffrage. Tooele County and it's political problems earlier were likely the spur to this law.
A History of Tooele County available online at Marriott Library Digital Collections.
Land and Property
Maps
Migration
Early migration routes to and from Tooele County, Utah Genealogy for emigrant settlers included:
- California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California[2]
- Mormon Trail 1846 to 1869 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah[3]
- Mormon Trail to Southern California 1847 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California[4]
- Central Overland Trail 1859-1869 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Carson City, Nevada (and usually on to northern California)[5]
Military
Naturalization and Citizenship
Newspapers
- One major resource for newspapers throughout Utah is the University of Utah's Utah Digital Newspapers project "with more than 600,000 pages of digitized Utah historical newspapers." Two newspapers from Tooele County are included in this digital project, the Tooele County Chronicle and Tooele Transcript-Bulletin. Read more... about using Utah newspapers for your family history research.
Obituaries
Periodicals
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
In Utah, such records may be difficult to find. Try records of the church they may have attended. Realize, however, that such records may have not been preserved, and would not be in the typical records of membership.
It is possible there were records kept by civilian authorities. Ask town or county officials and local librarians and the State Archives. Also try National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (online).
Probate Records
Public Records
Taxation
Vital Records
Birth
Marriage
- 1855-1929 - Western States Marriage Index. Includes Tooele County 1855-1929.[6]
Death
Utah Death Certificates 1904 - 1956 -A free internet access to the 1904-1956 death certificates can be viewed on the https://www.familysearch.org/. Utah requires a death certificate before a burial is completed. A death certificate may contain information as to the name of the deceased, date of death, and place of death, as well as the age, birthdate, parents, gender, marital status, spouse and place of residence.
Utah State Burial Index for death before 1904
Tooele Genweb site has further information on Births, Marriages, Deaths record sources.
Voting Registers
Resource Repositories
Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Courthouses
www.co.tooele.ut.us/
County Clerk, 47 South Main
Tooele, UT 84074
Telephone: (435) 843-3140
Fax: (435) 882-7317
Family History Centers
- Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
- Grantsville Utah Family History Center
- Tooele Valley Utah Family History Center
- Wendover Utah Family History Center
Societies and Social Groups
Towns and Communities
References
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ "Oregon California Trails Association" at http://octatrails.micromaps.com/ (accessed 18 July 2011).
- ↑ "The Pioneer Story: The Mormon Pioneer Trail" in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at http://lds.org/gospellibrary/pioneer/pioneerstory.htm (accessed 18 July 2011).
- ↑ "Jefferson Hunt" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Hunt (accessed 6 September 2011).
- ↑ "Central Overland Route" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Overland_Route (accessed 13 September 2011).
- ↑ "Tooele County, Utah: Family History and Genealogy, Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Vital Records and More," Linkpendium, http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/UT/Tooele/, accessed 1 February 2012.