Henry D. McHenry

Josiah Hale

Joseph Wallace

If any of you are connected to the Wallace Family you will find this interesting.  Joseph  Wallace lived in Ohio County during the 1830's and in 1830 was granted two Patents related to water-wheels. On the second image below you will find "Current water wheel, for mills" and on the third image you will find "Motion to mills communicated by a water wheel."  I think Joseph's family owned a mill in Ohio County that was powered by a water-wheel.  There is a Joseph Wallace in the 1820 census living in Ohio County. I found a Gazetteer from 1840 that says Ohio County had two flouring mills and seven grist mills

George Washington's Western Kentucky Lands

Note: We know that Grayson County, Kentucky was formed in 1810 from land taken from Hardin and Ohio Counties. So all or much of this land was part of Ohio County at one time.

Source:  Register of Kentucky State Historical Society

Vol. 29, No. 89 (October, 1931), pp. 379-384 (6 pages)

Published by: KentuckyHistorical Society

The above is my attempt to place 

the Washington land on a current Google map.

My attempt is not accurate. It would be a good

 for someone to make a  better map for us.  

I hope one of you will take that on as a project.

December 16, 1811

Dec. 16, 1811

On this day in history the first of the multiple New Madrid Earthquakes strike. The Mississippi River ran backwards in places, entire islands disappeared, and Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee was created. The quakes remain the most powerful to hit the contiguous United States east of the Rockies.

Edward Clarence Hubbard

NOTE:  See earlier post on this blog dated 12 Oct 2016.

Transportation and Mail Service in the Early Days

Transportation and Mail Service in the Early Days

            In pioneer days in Ohio County (1790’s to about 1850) transportation was limited to walking, horse-back, wagon or river travel. Most pioneer families owned at least one horse or mule as these animals were also used to pull stumps and other farm labor, and also to pull farm wagons.  Almost all of the settlers in the region were small farmers using two or three horses or mules, working to raise five to ten cattle and grow corn.  Tobacco, wheat, hemp and flax were other crops in Ohio County.  Corn was ground into meal and also fed to hogs or distilled into whiskey.  About ¼ of the settlers owned no cattle, horses or mules.  Pioneers thought nothing of walking a few miles.  River travel on the Green River and Rough River was by flat-boat, keelboat or canoe.  As early as 1827 flatboat owners were hauling tobacco and other agricultural products, and passengers, up and down the Green River for a fee.  Floating with the current was easy but against the current was a problem.  The first known ferry operations across the Green River began in the early 1800’s near Cromwell and was called Borah’s Ferry.  We can assume that most people traveled very little during the very early years.

STEAMBOATS:

            Kentucky is blessed with rivers. No other state except Alaska has as many miles of navigable streams.  The Green River never leaves Kentucky and is the longest river entirely within the state.  The Navigator, printed as a guide for river pilots in 1814, reported that the Green River “wound through a most fertile valley and had a better range for cattle and hogs than any other part of Kentucky.”  The Green River is unusually deep and has been reported to be the deepest little river in the United States. The terminus of the Green River is the Ohio River, near Evansville.  The Rough River runs through Hartford, and is the second largest tributary to the Green River; it starts in Hardin County and flows westerly through Ohio County to the Green at Livermore. It has an average depth of 15 to 25 feet but has several places where the depth decreases to less than 7 feet.  The distance (on the river) from Hartford to Livermore is about 30 miles.  Steamboats were able to navigate the Rough River to and from Hartford. 

           Here is a portion of John Filson’s map of the Green River drawn in 1784.

          Steamboats first appeared on the Ohio River in the 1820’s and became more frequent in the 1840’s.  Steamboats first appeared on the Green River about 1828 and during the 1830’s improvements were started on the Green, such as locks and dams, to facilitate steamboat operations.  These improvements were completed by 1842 at a cost of almost $900,000. The projects were numbered consecutively, beginning at the Ohio River. Number 1 was at Spottsville, Number 2 near Calhoun, with five projects in all. By 1847 five steamboats were operating on the Green River for passengers and commercial purposes and these boats went all the way to Bowling Green. The steamboats brought goods and groceries in and took lumber and farm commodities out, and carried passengers both ways.  Citizens from Ohio County could travel by steamboat to Evansville (on the Ohio) and then transfer to another steamboat upriver or downriver to cities such as St. Louis or New Orleans.  Important shipping points in Ohio County were Ceralvo, Rockport, and Cromwell.  The Rough River, which runs through Hartford, is the second largest tributary to the Green River; it starts in Hardin County and flows westerly through Ohio County to the Green at Livermore. It has an average depth of 15 to 25 feet but has several places where the depth decreases to less than 7 feet.  The distance (on the river) from Hartford to Livermore, where it meets the Green, is about 30 miles.  Steamboats were able to navigate the Rough River to and from Hartford.  Iron ore was discovered in the area in the early 1800’s and although the first few ventures failed, a Scotsman built an iron ore furnace near Paradise, KY in 1855, just 50 yards from the Green River.  Coal was mined as early as the 1830’s.  The terminus of the Green River is near Evansville, Indiana and that town became an important trading town for Ohio County citizens.

            The first Green River steamboat, the McLean, reached Bowling Green on January 26, 1828.  These boats not only carried passengers but also brought precious groceries and commodities to the towns up and down the Green River and carried lumber and farm products from river communities to Evansville and beyond.  The operation of a steamboat was very profitable.  Eventually “showboats” became popular up and down the Green.  The river was blocked by the Union Army for several years during the Civil War (roughly Feb 1862-1865).  This closure of the river caused economic hardship in Ohio County causing several businesses to fail.  Following the war steamboats reappeared but the emergence of the railroads dampened the steamboats’ revenue and steamboats ultimately stopped serving the Green River communities about 1931; the Rosa Belle, according to the Hartford Herald, stopped running in 1885 “for want of sufficient patronage.”  The demise of the steamboat caused several small towns to lose their reason for existence, such as paradise, KY.  The last steamboats to travel the Green River were named the Bowling Green and the Evansville.  The railroad and the automobile (and trucks, of course) ultimately replaced the steamboats.  Coal shipment on the Green River did not begin until the 1950’s.

STAGECOACHES:          

            In other parts of Kentucky, east of Ohio County, stagecoaches became popular for passenger travel. In the book, Stage-coach Days in the Bluegrass, by J. Winston Coleman, Jr., which is an account of stagecoach travel in Lexington and central Kentucky during 1800 to 1900, the author explains that regular stagecoach lines were established in central Kentucky during the early 1800’s, and was the principle mode of travel until 1852 when the railroads appeared.  The last stagecoach operating out of Lexington closed in 1889.  Roads were improved in the 1830’s and 1840’s by individuals who charged a toll for their use.  Stagecoaches ran from Lexington to Frankfort, Louisville, Maysville,  and as far as Cincinnati by 1818.  By 1824 a person could ride from Lexington to Washington by stage in six days.  By 1834 there were stagecoach routes from Lexington in every direction and smaller stage lines were running “local” routes in central Kentucky, although towns in western Kentucky were not connected to any of these lines. A line from Lexington went as far south as Nashville by the 1840’s.  It is said that the roads in the vicinity of Lexington were the best in the state.  The first six miles of railroad line was completed in the Lexington area during 1833 and by 1835 the line was completed from Lexington to Frankfort. Of course railroads were in their infancy and suffered from problems with breakdowns and accidents for the first ten years of operation, so stage-coaches were still the most important method for travel. But by the 1850’s the railroad companies had improved their service to the point that the future of the stagecoach business was dim; however, there was only 175 miles of track in Kentucky by 1860 so stage-coaches continued to operate on a lesser scale until the 1890’s when more track had been installed.

Below are the average times the Stagecoach would take to travel within Kentucky:

.                      •Lexington to Frankfort → 4 hours

.                      •Lexington to Louisville→ 11 hours

.                      •Lexington to Covington→ 11 hours

.                      •Lexington to Paris→ 2 hours

.                      •Louisville to Nashville→ 33 hours

            •Louisville to Frankfort→ 7 hours

1870’s near Lexington, Kentucky:

            For about sixty years, 1800 to 1860, the stagecoach served as the main mode of transportation in some areas, but stagecoaches did not appear in Ohio County because they would not have been profitable and the roads were not suitable. But stagecoaches delivered goods, mail, and passengers to cities and towns throughout the eastern United States and later out west. Up to nine people, including the driver, could fit in the larger coaches, and some trips could take days or even weeks to reach their destination. Stagecoaches could travel at about ten miles per hour.  Riding horseback was much faster, but one could not carry nearly as much cargo. Riding in a coach was much different than our experience riding in cars today.  Coaches could not have glass windows, as the rocky and rough roads would have broken them. Leather shades on the windows would block sunlight, but dust, heat and cold would make the trip very unpleasant. Also, the lack of seat belts would cause you to bump into the person seated next to you constantly.  Windows lacked protection except for a piece of leather. Because of this, you would get cold in the winter, hot in the summer, and wet during storms.  Many times the stagecoach would get stuck in the mud and the passengers would have to get out and push the coach out of the mud. 

            What is the difference between a carriage and a stagecoach? A stagecoach is meant for long trips and are generally more rugged and stronger than carriages. Carriages have thinner wheels and are primarily meant for travel within a town or city, such as a trip to the grocery store.  Think of the tires of a mountain bike versus a street bike. The mountain bike has thicker tires and is more durable.

MAIL DELIVERY: 

            In the early days people from Ohio County simply handed mail to friends or strangers who intended to travel back to Virginia or Maryland and hoped that their letter would eventually be delivered – it was a hap-hazard and very slow way to communicate but worked fairly well.  Although there was some official postal service in early colonial days, it was limited to the New England states. Benjamin Franklin was appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia in 1737, and at that time it could take two weeks for a letter to travel from New York to Philadelphia. Following the Revolutionary War the pioneer era began as people started moving into new territories such as Kentucky; of course there was no mail delivery system and people just asked friends, traders and strangers who happened to be traveling to deliver letters for them. In 1792 Congress passed an act establishing post offices and post roads within the United States. In 1806 a stagecoach/mail-coach was established from Pittsburg to Lexington, KY, a distance of approximately 700 miles, and took about 15 days each way. All mail from Kentucky came through Lexington, except the mail that came by steamboat down the Ohio River. The Post Office Department operated stagecoaches in the northeast part of America. As early as 1813 steam boats were used to carry mail from one town to another but ponies and stage coaches (or mail coaches) were also in use. My guess is that because of the proximity to the Green River Ohio County citizens received mail via steam boats from about 1820 until the railroad came in the 1860’s.  Owensboro started receiving mail by stagecoach by 1820 and this stagecoach came from Louisville – I do not know if this was any benefit to people from Ohio County.   In 1838 Congress passed an act making railroads the preferred mail post routes. These deliveries were to a post office in a town and people had to go to their post office to pick up or to drop off mail to be sent out.  In 1865 a law was passed giving cities with a population of 50,000 or more free mail delivery.  This was expanded in 1873 to all places having a population of 20,000 or more.  Star Routes were established after the city delivery system and Star Routes were for towns that not near a railroad; so under this system the post office advertised for bids for carriers from the railroad drop-off to the city, and the carrier would distribute and pick up mail to people that lived along the route, at least to those that erected a mail box.  Some rural areas had private mail delivery but I have not found any evidence of that in Ohio County. Free mail delivery in rural areas of Kentucky (and the rest of the States) was not started until 1899 and did not spread slowly across the entire state beginning in 1902 through about 1918.  The term RFD stands for Rural Free Delivery.  I found an article in the Owensboro newspaper, the Inquirer, dated Friday, January 20, 1899, which stated: “Stage Line Abandoned. The roads are so bad between Owensboro and Hartford that the stage line has been abandoned, and the mail is now carried on horseback. It is said to be impossible for two horses to pull an empty wagon on some parts of the road.”

RAILROADS:

            Railroads changed everything for travel and mail for Ohio County.  We know that the first rail line to serve Ohio County was a line from Elizabethtown to Paducah, which was built in the early 1860’s.  This line was eventually purchased by the Illinois Central Railroad (IC). We also know that from time-to-time there were private rail lines, or “short lines” that operated within the county, often operating as “feeder” lines to the main lines, and most of these were related to the coal mines. Railroads began serving Beaver Dam about 1870 and one article states that the community of Beaver Dam “sprang up” because the railroad company placed a station at Beaver Dam (and not at Hartford).* I found a map dated 1859 that did not show any rail lines in Ohio County; the first map that did show rail lines in Ohio County is dated 1865.  Note that the first map below does not show a rail line through Hartford and does not show a community named Beaver Dam but Beaver Dam is shown on the 1874 map.  There is an article in the 28 April 1899 issue of the Hartford Republican about the need for rail service to Hartford.  Eventually a rail line ran through Hartford (Madisonville to Henderson) but this line was not established until about April 1910.  I think the line that ran through Hartford was owned by the M. H. & E. Railroad Company (thought to be Madisonville, Hartford & Eastern Railroad Company – see article in the 18 Jun 1909 issue of the Hartford Republican) which was later was merged with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N).  Also, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad System might have served Ohio County at one time and that company was merged with the L & N Railroad Company.  Of course the railroads caused the eventual death of the steamships. Actually, the railroads and the riverboats competed for a few decades but the railroads won the battle.  Note on the 1865 map below that Beaver Dam is not shown but is shown on the 1874 map.

A newspaper advertisement from 1910 for the IC Railroad.

1865 map showing rail line but the only depot shown in Ohio County is Rockport. The rail line is called “E & P RR” which stood for “Elizabethtown and Paducah RR.”

1874 map showing depots at Horse Branch, Pigeon Roost, Elm Lick, Beaver Dam, and Rockport.  Line was called “Elizabethtown and Paducah RR” and I think the numbers are distances between the depots expressed in miles.

1876 map showing depots at Horse Branch, Rosine, Elm Lick, Beaver Dam, Hamilton, McHenry, and Rockport.  Line was called “Paducah and Southwestern RR.”

1880 map showing depots at Horse Branch, Rosine, Elm Lick, Beaver Dam, McHenry, and Rockport.  The line was called “Paducah and Elizabethtown RR.”

1870’s to the 1930’s:

            A man named John S. Vaught operated a stage coach between the railroad depot in Beaver Dam and Hartford in the late 1870’s – he would carry passengers back and forth for a fee and he also carried the mail from the depot to the post office in Hartford. I suspect that the Vaught Stagecoach was the first stagecoach to operate in Ohio County. There are advertisements in the Hartford Herald for Vaught & Hudson Stagecoach and starting in September 1875 for the Vaught Stagecoach.  In the 30 June 1899 issue of the Hartford Republican there is an advertisement by Henry Field & Son for passenger transfer from Beaver Dam to Hartford on a horse-drawn vehicle called an “Omnibus.”  I suspect these stagecoaches operated until a rail line came through Hartford, which was about 1910.

            The first rail service from Ohio County to Owensboro is traced to the Owensboro, Falls of Rough & Green River Railroad, Inc. That company was incorporated in Owensboro in September 1887 by Lafe Green, Capt. R. S. Triplett, J. D. Powers, D. M. Griffith, S. M. Dean, M. V. Monarch, W. J. Dean and R. G. Robertson, Sam E. Hill, J. F. Bennett and a Mr. Woosley. The company entered receivership in 1884 and in May 1897 was acquired by the Illinois Central Railroad.

            One oddity is that there were three railroad depots in Owensboro, one owned by The Owensboro & Nashville RR, one by the Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis RR, and one by the Illinois central RR – these depots were several blocks apart which made it difficult for passengers to change trains.  It remained this way until 1906.

            The earliest recorded Owensboro intercity passenger services was started by Frank Rice back in 1873. His Owensboro & Hartford Stage Line ran until January 1885 when he sold it to C. C. Bennett of Beda, Ohio County: “Mr. Rice was engaged for twelve years in making these tri-weekly round trips, amounting to 180 miles per week, or 9, 360 per year, or 112,320 for the twelve years. During this time he used only two mule teams and had three wagons.” Sam Sharpe had been operating the Owensboro & Hartford Stage Line for a number of years when he discontinued service in October 1907.

            In April 1916 the Owensboro Motor Car Company made its first “auto bus” trip between Owensboro and Hartford-Beaver Dam, thereafter making two round trips daily. (Keep in mind that back then a “motor bus,” or “auto-bus,” was often a large touring car.) O. C. Williams was the owner/manager of the company. An interesting glimpse of intercity bus travel was printed on page 3 of the Thursday evening Owensboro Inquirer for April 27, 1916: 

On its first trip out of Owensboro the Owensboro Motor Car company, which is operating the line, sent a crew of men out to work the roads at such places as were made difficult of passage by the rains and heavy hauling of the winter months. O. C. Williams, manager of the concern, headed the crew, of workers and when he was hauled back into Owensboro in the evening, on the return trip of the bus, the coating of mud that covered him from head to foot was real evidence that some road work had been done on the Hartford road. Holes were filled, brush cleared away and bumps cut out. Mr. Williams . . . says he can guarantee the road now to be in first class shape and that his company is going to make itself an auxiliary of the road working department of Daviess and Ohio counties and help keep all the roads it uses in good shape. He would like to have the cooperation too of the people who live along the road, and not the kind that he says was given in one instance yesterday, when a road had been cleared to the right of a large stump that stands in the middle of the road between Owensboro and Hartford. On the left of this stump was a large mud hole, so forbidding looking that the workers thought it would be easier to clear a new road to the right of the stump than to fill up the hole. This was done. On the return trip it was discovered that someone had felled a large tree across the new bit of road. Axes were again called into use and the obstruction removed.

            May 1917 saw Owensboro Interurban Lines, Inc. running two round trips daily between Owensboro and Hartford. J. N. Cecil Bus Line was based in St. Joseph, Daviess County, Kentucky in 1917 and served West Louisville and Owensboro. Three buses per day left St. Joseph with its terminus at the courthouse in Owensboro, from whence it made a return trip.

            In 1924 Tony Hansford operated his Grey Goose Bus Line between Owensboro and Hartford. It also served Pleasant Ridge and Masonville and Buford, and during the late 1920’s the Owensboro & Beaver Dam Bus Line, owned by F. T. Wright, and the Hartford-Beaver Dam Bus Line provided passenger service between Hartford and Owensboro.  About 1928 the Greyhound Bus Line started serving Owensboro and neighboring towns such as Hartford and Beaver Dam. Another bus line was the Owensboro-Bowling Green Bus Line, which was founded in 1932 by Joseph T. Fuqua (1913-2006). The line served Hartford, Beaver Dam, Morgantown and Bowling Green.  By 1932 F. T. Wright had changed the name of his Owensboro & Beaver Dam Bus Line to Gray Goose Bus Line, which operated between Owensboro and Bowling Green, Morgantown, Beaver Dam and Hartford.

* Note that a Baptist Church was built in Beaver Dam in March, 1798, so the town predated the first railroad depot.

Sources:

Owensboro History by Darrell Conder

Stagecoach Days in the Bluegrass, by John Winston Coleman  pub 1935

Green River Steamboating - a Cultural History, 1828-1931, by Helen Bartter Crocker pub 1970

Descendants of Alonzo G. Crowder

Descendants of Alonzo G. Crowder

1 Alonzo G. Crowder b: 25 Dec 1866 in Mt Pleasant Ohio County, Ky d: 07 Nov 1924 in Ohio County, KY

.. +Louella M. Leach b: 17 Jun 1870 in Ohio County Ky d: 24 Aug 1953 in Jefferson County KY m: 02 Jan 1899 in Ohio County KY

........ 2 Pearl Crowder b: 26 Feb 1887 in Ohio County, KY d: 26 Oct 1967 in Louisville, Jefferson County KY

............            +Floyd Morris b: 02 Sep 1894 in Ohio County, KY d: 16 Jul 1972 in Ohio County, KY m: 18 Sep 1915 in Ohio County KY

................... 3 Lavelle Morris b: 22 Aug 1916 in Ohio County Ky d: 12 Jun 1991 in Louisville, Jefferson County KY

....................... +Nannie Frances Poole b: 23 Jan 1920 in Hartford, Ohio County KY d: 21 Nov 2002 in Baptist East Hospital, Louisville KY m: 08 Jan 1938 in Hartford, Ohio County KY

............................. 4 Lavelle Morris Jr. b: 21 Nov 1938 in Louisville, Jefferson County KY

................................. +Ruby Carol Pugh m: 24 Dec 1960 in Louisville, KY Jefferson Co.

............................. 4 Linda Ann Morris b: 11 Dec 1946 in Louisville, Jefferson County KY d: 19 Nov 2006 in Louisville, Jefferson County KY

................................. +Alan Ward m: 25 Jun 1965 in Louisville, KY Jefferson Co.

................... 3 Maurice Morris b: 25 Jun 1920 in Daviess County, KY d: 31 Jan 2000 in Jefferson County KY

....................... +Mildred Virgialeen Burden b: 04 Jan 1924 in McHenry, Ohio County KY d: 30 Jun 2003 in Mt. Washington Bullitt County KY m: 30 Aug 1941 in Calhoun, McClean County KY

............................. 4 Patricia Morris b: 03 Mar 1942

................................. +Michael Dohoney m: 08 Apr 1961 in Jefferson County, KY

............................. 4 Betty Lee Morris b: 04 Jan 1944 in Owensboro, Daviess County, KY

................................. +Donald Owens

............................. 4 Edna Pearl Morris b: 18 Oct 1946

................................. +Roscoe M. Patterson Jr. m: 26 Apr 1966 in Jefferson County, KY

............................. 4 Harold Wayne Morris b: 25 Aug 1951 in Louisville, Jefferson County KY

................................. +Tresa Meisburg m: in Jefferson County, KY

............................. 4 Carol Lane Morris b: 26 Aug 1955

................................. +Charles Strange Jr. m: 12 Oct 1973 in Louisville, KY Jefferson Co.

................... 3 Harold C. Morris b: 21 Oct 1921 in Ohio County Ky d: 30 May 1924 in Ohio County Ky

........ 2 Anna Murl Crowder b: 1901 in Rosine Ohio County Ky d: 10 Jan 1983 in Daviess County, KY

............            +William Mack Allen b: 20 Jan 1893 in Ohio County Ky d: 27 Oct 1981 in Ohio County Ky m: Bef. 1919 in Ohio County KY

................... 3 Margaret Allen b: 1919 in Ohio County, KY

................... 3 Delois Allen b: 02 Nov 1922 in Ohio County, KY

................... 3 Wanda Allen b: 19 Sep 1924 in Ohio County, KY

................... 3 Annie Allen b: 1927 in Ohio County, KY

................... 3 Vivian Allen b: 03 Nov 1933 in Ohio County, KY

................... 3 Betty Lou Allen b: 02 Oct 1935 in Ohio County, KY

........ 2 Carlos Crowder b: 12 Apr 1902 in Ohio County Ky d: Aug 1972 in Jefferson County KY

........ 2 Stoy Elliott Crowder b: 21 Feb 1904 in Ohio County, KY d: 30 Oct 1980 in Louidsville, Jefferson County KY

............            +Thelma Morris b: 25 Oct 1917 in Ohio County Ky d: 19 Nov 2002 in Green Medows Nurseing Home, Mount Washington, KY m: 28 Jul 1939 in Horse Branch, Ohio County, KY

................... 3 Jerold Elliott Crowder b: 30 Apr 1941 in Louisville, Jefferson County KY

....................... +Brenda Sue Wilson b: 02 Jun 1942 in Ohio County Ky m: 31 Aug 1963 in Louisville, KY Jefferson Co.

............................. 4 Jeffrey Brian Crowder b: 17 Aug 1966 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

............................. 4 James Scott Crowder b: 17 Aug 1972 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

................... 3 Dianne Crowder b: 06 Feb 1947 in Louisville, Jefferson County KY

....................... +Phillip Bradley m: 08 Mar 1968 in Louisville, KY Jefferson Co.

............................. 4 Kevin Lynn Bradley b: 25 Dec 1968 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY

Source: Billy Morris

Early Indiana Marriages

Sometimes people went to Indiana to get married - not sure why. But Indiana has a web site showing marriages up to 1850 and you can search by surname.  I searched the Leach surname and found several hits for my Ohio County ancestors, as shown below. So just search your various surnames for anyone old enough to be married before 1850 and you'll probably get a few hits.  Good luck.

INDIANA MARRIAGES thru 1850

https://www.statelib.lib.in.us/INMarriages1850/marriages_search.asp

The Index to Indiana Marriages Through 1850 began many years ago through a project initiated by Dorothy Riker the late former Editor of The Hoosier Genealogist, which listed the name of the groom in county listings in this publication.  Later, brides names were added to the original card set of groom names in the Genealogy Division. Volunteers expanded the card set to include all dates through 1850 for counties where marriage records existed. This became a database which contains approximately 330,000 records totaling 90.5 MB of electronic data.  In addition to the marriage listings which index the county courthouse records, the database includes marriages which were noted from the early Quaker monthly meetings in Indiana. These Quaker marriages were listed in the Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana compiled by Willard Heiss, (Call Number Geneal. 929.102 F911h v. 7).  In addition the database includes listings for the St. Francis Xavier parish church in Vincennes, Indiana which date from 1749.

Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name	County:		Date:
Leach	Abigail	Carter	John		Wabash	1-26-1840
Leach	Acell	Williams	Patsy		Lawrence	4-12-1849
Leach	Adaline	Webb	William A		La Porte	10-2-1850
Leach	Albert	Hilliard	Elizabeth		La Porte	10-8-1848
Leach	Alpha A	Dugan	Rebecca		Bartholomew	9-14-1844
leach	Amos	Hall	Phoebe		Lawrence	2-21-1819
Leach	Amy	Decker	James		Knox	9-13-1843
Leach	Anerson	Montgomery	Matilda		Hendricks	1-9-1834
Leach	Ann	Rubbles	Philo E		St Joseph	4-20-1843
Leach	Archibald	Rusk or Rush	Nancy		Rush	3-5-1825
Leach	Azdoc	Menefee	America		Shelby	1-7-1847
Leach	Benjamin A	Painter	Mary E (Mrs)		Clinton	11-19-1850
Leach	Calvin	Hise	Franky B		Washington	6-13-1839
Leach	Cassandra	Anders	David A		Shelby	5-19-1835
Leach	Catharine	Frame	Neely		St Joseph	6-6-1845
Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name		County:	Date:
Leach	Cattavinia	McReynolds	Robert		Gibson	12-22-1841
Leach	Cordelia	Johnson	Pleasant C		Gibson	1-1-1849
Leach	Daniel	Cooper	Milly		Warrick	10-18-1835
Leach	David	Balden	Mary		Marion	3-5-1838
Leach	David	Wilson	Mary Ann		Union	4-7-1846
Leach	Edmund	Brewer	Emily		Grant	6-6-1841
Leach	Eleanor	Boon	David		Shelby	10-24-1839
Leach	Elias	Leake	Susannah		Hendricks	5-17-1839
Leach	Eliza	Dulty	John		Ohio	4-7-1845
Leach	Elizabeth	Beverlin	Robert		Wayne	6-13-1833
Leach	Elizabeth	Gadberry	Nathaniel		Washington	3-21-1839
Leach	Elizabeth	Gullett	John		Floyd	11-3-1830
Leach	Elizabeth	Myers	Alfred		Gibson	11-14-1846
Leach	Elizabeth	Norton	Isaac N		Morgan	12-30-1846
Leach	Elizabeth	Wood	James D S		Owen	12-3-1841
Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name		County:	Date:
Leach	Esom	Corn	Lucinda		Grant	8-28-1838
Leach	Eunice	Boyle	David		Clinton	3-29-1842
Leach	Evaline	Leak	John L		Boone	12-24-1850
Leach	Ezekiel	Black	Jane		Ohio	4-1-1845
Leach	Fidelia	Taylor	Marshall		Lawrence	1-9-1843
Leach	Frances	Plew	Abram		Switzerland	2-8-1850
Leach	Francis	Johnson	Elizabeth Jane		Knox	2-4-1847
Leach	Francis	Musgrave	Benjamin		Warrick	9-10-1835
Leach	Francis A	Menesly	Elizabeth		Clinton	2-8-1844
Leach	George	Shelton	Lurana Ann		St Joseph	5-27-1843
Leach	Hannah	Burget	William		Johnson	9-11-1834
Leach	Hester Ann	McKinsey	George W		Clinton	12-4-1846
Leach	Isabella	Hamilton	James		Clinton	2-8-1843
Leach	Isabella	Jackson	Levi		Hancock	3-3-1836
Leach	Jacob B	Hey	Martha		Floyd	5-15-1830
Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name		County:	Date:
Leach	James	Larus	Sarah Ann		Franklin	1-10-1841
Leach	James	Penward	Amanda		Allen	12-6-1848
Leach	James M	Campbell	Nancy M		Shelby	12-23-1847
Leach	James S	King	Saah		Howard	3-15-1850
Leach	Jane	Brewer	Stephen		Grant	3-31-1842
Leach	Jane	Key	Thomas		Gibson	8-14-1817
Leach	Jane	Lucas	Oliver		Gibson	6-30-1825
Leach	Jane	Taylor	James		St Joseph	5-8-1841
Leach	John	Abigail	Hinman		Warrick	10-1-1829
Leach	John	Feare	Martha Ann		Grant	3-9-1843
Leach	John	Lewis	Mary		Delaware	3-19-1848
Leach	John	McFettridge	Cynthia		Gibson	5-4-1825
Leach	John	Miller	Abigal		Shelby	10-21-1837
Leach	John	Moore	Nancy		Clinton	2-7-1850
Leach	John H	Selby	Eleanor		Hamilton	1-31-1839
Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name		County:	Date:
Leach	John Henry	Prescott	Caroline		Morgan	3-16-1843
Leach	John S	Churchman	Ann		Floyd	9-5-1839
Leach	Jonathan	Groves	Sally		Knox	9-30-1815
Leach	Joshua	McLane	Elizabeth		Clark	12-9-1819
Leach	Joshua	Poake	Anna		Union	9-9-1838
Leach	Joshua	Smith	Matilda		St Joseph	6-18-1837
Leach	katharine D	Murfin	Thomas Holland		Hancock	3-10-1836
Leach	Leonard S	Hey	Maria		Floyd	10-13-1826
Leach	Lewis	Slaughter	Rachel Mrs		Johnson	2-18-1847
Leach	Lewis W	Williamson	Mary J		Randolph	11-8-1849
Leach	Louisa	Lambert	Abiram S		Delaware	12-22-1850
Leach	Louisa Ann	Salkeld	John		Floyd	7-24-1842
Leach	Lucy	Cline	William		Miami	4-3-1848
Leach	Macom	Smith	Margaret		Washington	11-26-1833
Leach	Margaret	Bension	Wm		Gibson	4-27-1819
Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name		County:	Date:
Leach	Martha	Howe	Wm		Gibson	3-13-1828
Leach	Martha A	Smith	Thomas E		Grant	5-26-1852
Leach	Martha C	Wells	James		Floyd	10-10-1844
Leach	Mary	Byerly	Samuel B		Shelby	2-17-1850
Leach	Mary	Eaton	Leonard		St Joseph	2-14-1846
Leach	Mary	House	John		Shelby	2-12-1846
Leach	Mary	McCreery	James		Grant	5-7-1846
Leach	Mary	Scott	Samuel L		Hendricks	1-6-1848
Leach	Mary A	Angel	Artamus W		Huntington	5-23-1852
Leach	Mary Ann	Roberts	Hezakaih		Switzerland	10-9-1840
Leach	Mary Jane	Johnson	Randolph		Clinton	6-24-1847
Leach	Mary Jane	Northcut	Dillard		Boone	3-21-1847
Leach	Meredith W	Woody	Caroline		Lawrence	12-21-1845
Leach	Minerva	Graham	Zaza		Washington	11-171-1843
Leach	Nancy	Davis	John		Wabash	12-16-1841
Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name		County:	Date:
Leach	Nancy	Jackson	John		Clinton	4-20-1840
Leach	Nancy Jane	Campbell	Henry		Decatur	10-31-1850
Leach	Owen D	Light	Elizabeth		Owen	11-5-1848
Leach	Peggy	Freeman	Stephen		Gibson	11-23-1823
Leach	Phebe	Wolf	Charles		Clinton	9-14-1834
Leach	Phlinda	Simpson	John J		Wabash	12-5-1848
Leach	Polly	Ring	Solomon		Washington	6-9-1846
Leach	Preston	Mathis	Nancy		Johnson	2-17-1844
Leach	Rachel	Lawson	Moses		Franklin	7-18-1833
Leach	Reuben	Lee	Nancy		Rush	7-29-1829
Leach	Richard T	Hull	Electa		Warrick	5-7-1833
Leach	Robert	Dyer	Susan		Greene	9-26-1847
Leach	Rodney	Doley	Nancy		Owen	12-1-1847
Leach	Sally	Hargrave	Seth		Warrick	7-26-1825
Leach	Samuel	Martin	Diana		Whitley	7-1-1849
Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name		County:	Date:
Leach	Sarah	Graham	James H		Randolph	2-5-1846
Leach	Sarah	Hunter	Henry		Gibson	1-15-1815
Leach	Sarah	Keters	Andrew		Washington	11-20-1844
Leach	Sarah	Mathes	John		Johnson	10-6-1831
Leach	Sarah	Pearson	Enoch		Knox	3-17-1816
Leach	Sarah	Smith	Thomas		Washington	7-31-1839
Leach	Sarah	Wright	Isaac		Howard	10-28-1849
Leach	Sarah Ann	Landrum	Leak		Boone	4-27-1847
Leach	Sarah Elizabeth	Knight	Thomas N		Decatur	4-21-1846
Leach	Sarah G	Leak	George W		Henry	1-10-1850
Leach	Sarah M	Russell	John S		Marion	10-15-1850
leach	Simon	Campbell	Elizabeth		Switzerland	11-16-1841
Leach	Simon	Campbell	Elizabeth		Switzerland	11-16-1841
Leach	Susan	Charles	McFarland		Clinton	5-22-1836
Leach	Susannah	Hill	Peter		Franklin	10-3-1818
Last Name	First Name	Spouse: Last Name	Spouse: First Name		County:	Date:
Leach	Thomas	Gillmore	Mary E		Putnam	2-17-1846
Leach	Thomas	Sarah	Prichard		Johnson	7-12-1832
Leach	Thomas W	Swvers	Carra Ann		Warrick	4-20-1846
Leach	Thompson	Stone	Catherine		Gibson	4-24-1824
Leach	Virlinden	Morgan	Adam		Clark	2-11-1823
Leach	William	Byers	Mary		Johnson	9-13-1832
Leach	William	Miller	Ellenora		Owen	7-29-1848
Leach	William	Miller	Mary Ann		Tippecanoe	12-8-1842
Leach	William	Stanfield	Elizabeth		Gibson	11-28-1840
Leach	Winthrop F	Stroud	Sarah		Lawrence	11-19-1840
Leach	Zelpha	Stephens	Baker		Washington	7-6-1842
Leach or Leak	Levisa	Stroud	John		Clinton	12-4-1845