Genealogy and History Collection

History and Genealogy Collection


A wide range of genealogy and local history resources are available at each of the five library branches.
The majority of genealogy and history materials are kept at the Charlestown Library branch.
The list below includes a large portion of the materials available (divided by the library).

See Indiana Memory - Digital Collection page to learn about the library's digital collection.

Charlestown Library - Indiana Room

Special Collections list 
These items can be seen upon request. 

Microfilm list 
Census, Early Newspapers, Diaries/Journals/Ledgers, Church Records, Newspapers (the microfilm reader has no printer)

FAMILY HISTORY BOOKS & RECORDS
Family genealogy books & family files name list (8 file drawers)
• Biographical & Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington in Indiana
• Pioneer Families of Clark County, Indiana by W.H. McCoy 1886 (green folder)
• Clark County, Indiana Index of Names of Persons and of Firms 1938
• DAR: Bible Records of Clark County Families
• David W. Daily Papers (microfilm)
• Diaries and Records misc. 1853-1893 (microfilm)
• John Long account books (microfilm)
• Silas W. Blizard diaries (microfilm)
• Work Family History by John Work (microfilm)
• The Gold Star Book by Fanny B. Coats (Special Collections)
• Scrapbook of Sarah Adelaide Taylor, May 24, 1926 Charlestown, IN (3-ring binder)
Frank A. & Dorothy Smith collection of World War II letters
Guernsey family collection, Clark County, Indiana 1862-1877
Jennie E. Green photograph album, c1860
Joe H. Graves autograph book, Charlestown, Indiana 1891
Judge certificate to Ward H. Watson 26 Nov 1906
Letter from Howk & Naylor Charlestown, IN to Naylor Crawfordsville, IN 29 Apr 1834
McGee family letters, Charlestown, Indiana 1822, 1831 & 1832
McKinney family papers 1823-1923
Minna Alpha Cookbook, Charlestown, Indiana, 12 Dec 1885
Harris family collection, Charlestown, Indiana c1880
Spicknall funeral notices 1883
Turner family collection, Charlestown, Indiana 1833-1911
Hiestand Family Collection
Stockwell Bentley Chambers collection (4 boxes in special collections)
Robertson family collection (3 boxes in special collections)
• Persons of Foreign Birth in Nineteenth Century Scott County, IN

MARRIAGE & DIVORCE RECORDS
• Clark County, Indiana Marriage Records 1801-1849
• Marriage Records 1807-1824
• Marriages Clark County, Indiana 1905-1920 index (5 3-ring binders)
• Clark County Marriage Records: (A - Dunlap of Part I - missing grooms); Books L-O 1880-1890, Jan 1891; Books P-S 1891-1897; Books T-V 1897-1901; (microfilm)
• The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry - Clark Co., IN marriages 1807-1941
• Charlestown Marriages, Divorces, Deaths 1920s-1940s
• St. John Catholic Church marriages 1861-1941 (Starlight, IN)
• 1906-1910 Marriage Records for Scott County, Indiana
• Scott County Indiana Marriages 1820-1941
• Scott County Indiana Marriages 1848-1905
• 1906-1910 Marriage Records for Scott County, Indiana
• Jefferson County Indiana early marriage records 1811-1828
• Posey County, Indiana Marriages 1814-1825
• Divorces Granted by the Indiana General Assembly Prior to 1852
• ISCC First Marriages Records of Floyd County, Indiana 1819-1837

BIRTH RECORDS
• Birth Records, Clark County, Indiana 1882-1920 index
• St. John Catholic Church baptisms 1861-1941 (Starlight, IN)
• Clark County Birth & Death Records 1907-1945 (microfilm)
• Clark County Health Department - Birth Records Jan 1882 - Dec 1992 (microfilm)

IMMIGRATION
• Immigrants to Indiana Feb 8, 1853 - Dec 1855
• Persons of Foreign Birth in Nineteenth Century Scott County, IN
• German Immigrants 929.3

DEATH RECORDS
• Death Records Clark County, Indiana 1882-1920 index
• Death Records Clark County 1882-1920 index (microfilm)
• St. John Catholic Church deaths 1861-1941 (Starlight, IN)
• Clark County Birth & Death Records 1907-1945 (microfilm)
• Clark County Health Department - Death Records Jan 1882-Dec 1971 (microfilm)
• Charlestown Marriages Divorces Deaths 1920’s-1940’s
• Garr Funeral Home Records, Sellersburg, IN 1930-1985 (white binder)
James Funeral Home Records, Charlestown, Indiana, 1931-1955
James N. Teeple Undertaker Records, Charlestown, Indiana, 1906-1910
Barnes Community House ledger (includes funerals from 1926-1957)
• obituary scrapbook (white binder)
• Death Records Washington County, IN 1882-1950
• Obituary Collection By: Borden Historical Society Book 1 & Book 2
• Littell Funeral Home Records Books 1 & 2
• 1850 Indiana Mortality Schedule Vol. 1 Counties Adams through Harrison

CEMETERY RECORDS
Clark County cemetery list with locations (updated 2021)
• Clark County Township cemetery listings - compiled in the early 1990s (12 3-ring binders)
• New Washington Christian Church & Crown Hill cemetery index
• St. John Catholic Church cemetery index 2015 (Starlight, IN)
• Clark County Cemetery and Church Records 1982
Charlestown Cemetery Plat Book, Charlestown, Indiana 1903
Charlestown Cemetery lot listings
Union Cemetery plat map, Clark County, Indiana 1965
• Walnut Hill Cemetery, Borden, Indiana 2008
• Barnes Cemetery (binder for Barnes Community House)
• Otisco Cemetery (Monroe Township) list and photographs
• Crown Hill Cemetery
• The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry - Clark County Cemeteries: Special 1984
• Additional Scott County Cemetery listings
• Cemetery Records for Scott County, Indiana 1820-1978
• Lexington Township Cemetery Book 1813-1988 (Scott Co.)
• Scott County Cemetery Book Vienna Township 1990
• Scott County Cemeteries (binder)
• Scottsburg Cemetery Record 1986
• Washington County Cemeteries (binder)
• New Albany National Cemetery Index Floyd Co., Indiana
• Spencer County (Ind.) Cemetery Inscriptions Vol 1 1987

WILLS
• Clark County, Indiana Abstracts of Wills and Executors’ Records 1801-1833
• The Wills of Scott County, Indiana 1821-1889
• The Probate Court Records of Scott County, Indiana 1820-1847
• Index to Indiana Wills Phase 1 through 1850
• Index to Indiana Wills Phase 2 1850 through 1880
• ISCC: Will Book A, 1819-1830, Floyd County, Indiana

PROPERTY & PLACES
• New Washington Community History 1815-1990 (book)
• Charlestown Community History 1989 (book)
• Charlestown Through 200 Years (book)
• Images of Rose Island by T.A. Chapman
• Tunnel Mill by Gary D. Purlee
• History of Owen Township by Buford E. Bower (3 spiral bound)
• Prather Community
• Jeffersonville Land Entries 1808-1818
• Indiana Land Entries Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
• 1850 Indiana Gazetteer
• 1890 Indiana Gazetteer & Business Directory

• The Stauss Hotel (Jeffersonville) by Gerald O. Haffner
• Shades of the Past (Charlestown oral histories)
• Sellersburg: A Century of Change
• Clark County Interim Report
• Charlestown Indiana 1941 dvd
• From Opera House to City Hall
• Clark County Deeds (early 1800s - not inclusive) (microfilm)
• Clark County Estray Book 1853-1893 (microfilm)
• Clark County Tax Register 1844 (microfilm)
• “Illinois Grant” or “Clark Grant” 1881-1882 by Victor W. Lyon Clark County Surveyor (microfilm)
• Bethlehem Township 1875-1897 (microfilm)
• Floyd County Architectural Survey (microfilm)
About A Town In Southern Indiana, Theodore Eitel photography (Utica, Indiana) 
Middle Road Toll Gate ledger, Charlestown, Indiana 1867-1890
Rose Island 14 Miles Above Louisville on the Beautiful Ohio c1930
Flood of 1937 post cards, Ohio River, Indiana
• Photo Story Greatest Flood of the Century, January 1937 (Special Collections)
Illustrated Souvenir of the Indiana Reformatory 1906
Marble Hill promotional poster, Hanover, Indiana c1980
Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot and You
• Indiana 1926 (Special Collections)
Hanging Rock Hill, Madison, Indiana c1910
Deputy Camp Meeting collection, Deputy, Indiana
• Charlestown "Boomtown" 1940's (newspapers, photographs, files)

• Lexington A Pioneer Town
• Lexington - A history by Mary Wilson & Sharon Asher
• The Centennial History of Austin, Scott County, Indiana 1853-1953
• Settlement in New Albany
• Nabb Station & Griswold; Nabb, Indiana (binder)

Indiana Ordnance Works, Hoosier Ordnance Plant, Indiana Arsenal & Indiana Army Ammunition Plant

aerial photograph of Indiana Army Ammunition Plant

The library has a large collection of items pertaining to this US government owed ammunition manufacturing facility from 1941-2016.

Read a history of the plant here. The collection includes thousands of photographs, maps, newsletters, diagrams, reports, manuals, land purchase records, and physical objects which came from the facility. A large portion of these items have been digitized and can be seen on Indiana Memory in the Clark County Collection. In addition, there are many newspaper articles and written histories of the plant.

GENERAL CLARK COUNTY HISTORY
• Baird's History of Clark County 
• History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties Vol 1&2 (1882)
• This place we call home by Carl E. Kramer
• A Young Person's Guide to Clark County History
• A Brief Informal History of Clark County, IN by Gerald O. Haffner

NEWSLETTERS, NEWSPAPERS, AND MAGAZINES
list of old newspapers at Charlestown Library and how to access digital Indiana newspapers for free
The Powder Horn 1941-1943, Indiana Ordnance Works newsletter, Charlestown, Indiana
The Action 1941, Indiana Ordnance Works newsletter, Charlestown, Indiana
• Charlestown Courier Jan 1941-Dec 1985 (microfilm)
• The Leader Mar 7, 1984-Dec 2011 (47 bound volumes)
• The Leader 1957-Dec 2011 (microfilm)
• The Leader 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Giveaway 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Banner-Gazette 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Washington County Edition 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Scott County Journal/Chronicle 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Exchange - Bulletin of Northwest Clark County, Indiana 1986-1991 (Special Collections)
• Hoosier Journal of Ancestry
• The Hoosier Genealogist (most issues Sep. 1988-Jun. 2001)
• Indiana Magazine of History (Dec 2000, Mar/Jun/Sep 2001, Sep 2007)
• Washington County, Indiana Historical Society Newsletter
• Lexington Historical Society; Scott County Genealogical Society
• Southern Indiana Genealogical Society Quarterly 1980-81, 1993-current
• Out Door Indiana most of 1958-current

COURT & COUNTY OFFICIAL RECORDS
• Civil Order Book 1824-1828

• Indiana Territory Pioneer Records 1801-1820 Vol II
• Indiana Territory Pioneer Records Poll Lists 1801-1815
• Clark County Justice of the Peace Records (microfilm)
• Clark County Estray Book 1801-1817 and Clark County, Indiana Marriages 1807-1829
• Knox County IN Early Land Records and Court Indexes 1783-1875
Auditor’s Annual Report of the Receipts and Disbursements Clark County, Indiana 1885, 1886
Monroe Township Court Docket ledger, Clark County, Indiana 1896-1905
Monroe Township Election Poll books for 1863, 1865 & 1867, Henryville, Indiana
Recorder’s Office pages, Clark County, Indiana Territory 1816
Poor Farm ledger, Clark County, Indiana 1923-1941
Letter from Court Clerk, Shepherdsville, KY to Justice of Peace Clark County, Indiana Territory 28 Apr 1818
Recorder’s Office Letter to Margaret Bower, Clark County, Indiana 17 Aug 1887
Sellersburg, Indiana Criminal Docket Ledger 1900-1927
Monroe Township Auditor Ledger, Clark County, Indiana 1884-1900

ORGANIZATIONS
• Andrew W. Yager Collection, Charlestown, Indiana 3 Sep 1918 (Knights of Pythias)
• Charlestown Gymnastic Association, Charlestown, Indiana 1866-67
• Clark County Central Agricultural Association 1887
• Daughters of Pocahontas, No 259, Charlestown, Indiana 1907-1909
• Grange #1089 Letter to Fletcher Bottorff, New Washington, Indiana 12 Dec 1874
• Improved Order of the Red Men Pecos Tribe membership list, Charlestown, Indiana 3 Sep 1918
• Knights of Pythias Ledger, No 498, Bethlehem, Indiana 1902-1928
• Green Tree Tavern Chapter DAR member list
• Exhibition by Literary Society 28 Nov 1878, Charlestown, Indiana
• Charlestown Lecture Association program, Charlestown, Indiana 14 Mar 1882
• National War Savings committee, Clark County, Indiana 31 Aug 1918
• Red Cross Charlestown Township membership list, Charlestown, Indiana 3 Sep 1918

PHOTOGRAPHS
• early citizens, schools, buildings, historic sites, dwellings

• Powder Plant in Charlestown (special collections)
Tunnel Mill photograph, Charlestown, Indiana c1900
About A Town In Southern Indiana, Theodore Eitel Photography (Utica, Indiana)

BUSINESSES
• A.E. Burkhardt & Co. Furs and Raw Skins receipt c1870
• Bolly Flour Mill, Charlestown, Indiana, c1880
• Charlestown House ledger, Charlestown, Indiana 1953-1963
• First National Bank 6952, Charlestown, Indiana 3 Sep 1918
• Guernsey store ledger, Henryville, Indiana 1863-1872
• Handy House, Charlestown, Indiana, c1940
• Horse breeding postcard, New Washington, Indiana 1885
• Karnes House ledger, Charlestown, Indiana 1897-1902
• Sharpe Fabric and Clothing store ledger, Charlestown, Indiana 1850-1851
• Martinsburg Store Ledger 1835 (copy)

CITY DIRECTORY
• Indiana Caron’s New Albany-Jeffersonville 1947, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958-1980, 1982-1991
• Polk’s New Albany-Jeffersonville 1993, 1996-2000
• Polk’s Clark County Indiana 2001-2003
• Polk’s Clark, Floyd, Harrison Counties Indiana 2004-2011, 2013-2014, 2016-2020
• Criss Cross Southern Indiana 2014-2019
• New Washington telephone directory 1933 (Special Collections)
• New Albany City Directory (microfilm)

CHURCHES
Churches of Clark County files list
• The History of the Charlestown Christian by William Holmes McConnell 1981

• Speed Memorial Church Records 1920-1930s
• Pleasant Grove Church Records 1910s
• Speed United Methodist Church Records 1892-1937
• The Membership of Speed Memorial Church 1924-1999
• Bible Records of Clark County Families collected by DAR
• St. John Baptist Catholic Church Records 1861-1941
• Charlestown Christian Church History (binder)
• Membership Rolls Hamburg Christian Church/Sellersburg Church of Christ from Approx. 1866 to 1957 Vol. 2-5
• New Washington Christian Church & Crown Hill cemetery index
• St. Michael Catholic Church Sesquicentennial 1860-2010 V.1&2
• Church Notes by Buford E. Bower (spiral bound)
• A Bicentennial History of Stony Point Christian Church 1798-1998
• ISCC: Clark County Cemetery & Church Records (1982)

• ISCC: Harrison County, IN The German Evangelical Reformed Peace Church
• Methodist Church (The Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church Nov 19, 1925 and pictures) (microfilm)
• Methodist 1884-1925 “Old Records” (3 3-ring binders)
Methodist Episcopal Church dedication ceremony, 1925, Charlestown, Indiana
Methodist Episcopal Church, 1885 directory, Charlestown, Indiana
Methodist Episcopal Church, 1894 directory, Charlestown, Indiana
Methodist Episcopal Church, 1915 directory, Charlestown, Indiana
• Speed Memorial Church Bulletins 1957 (microfilm)
New House of Worship, Charlestown Presbyterian Church, IN 14 Jul 1878
History of Presbyterian Church, Charlestown, Indiana 1899
Presbyterian Church directory 1900-1901, Charlestown, Indiana

MILITARY
• Clark County, Indiana WWII draft card list

Civil War Letters (kept in special collections)
Arthur Stockwell Civil War Letters 1964
Ernest Schleicher Civil War Letters
• 3 letters included in the Guernsey family collection, Clark County, Indiana 1862-1877
McGee Letter from Civil War Soldier to Belle McGee 29 Jul 1862

EVENTS
• 1974 Tornado outbreak (newspapers and files)
• 1937 Flood news clipping etc. (photographs Special Collections)

• The Collings Story of Pigeon Roost Massacre - Roy H. Beldon
• The Crowning of The Gypsy Queen program, Charlestown, IN 27 Apr 1906
• History of Charlestown Indiana and Program for Charlestown Police Benefit Jamboree, 1942
• Merchant of Venice Opera leaflet, Charlestown, Indiana 22 Feb 1900
• Tulip Tree Festival program, Charlestown, Indiana 1942
• Indiana Ordnance Works Excellence of Performance Program 10 August 1942
• Charlestown Sesquicentennial program, Charlestown, Indiana 8-13 Jul 1958
• Charlestown Community Chautauqua, Charlestown, Indiana 19-23 Aug 1917
• Ye Musick program 31 Dec 1899, Charlestown, Indiana
• Crothersville Fair 1909 advertisement, Crothersville, Indiana
• Literary Society exhibition program, 28 Nov 1878, Charlestown, Indiana
• Speed Community Fair Programs, Speed, Indiana 1920-1929
• Chautauqua, Sellersburg, Indiana 1916

SCHOOLS & YEAR BOOKS
• Clark County, Indiana Historic School List
• Barnett Academy collection 1864-65
• Catalogue and Circular of the Charlestown Female Institute 1853-54, Charlestown, Indiana
• Charlestown Eighth Grade School Commencement Program, Charlestown, Indiana 1935
• Charlestown High School Commencement Programs 1890, 1900, 1928, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1950
• First Annual Catalogue of the Graded School and Normal Institute, of Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana 1883-84
• Haymaker Public School souvenir 1922, New Market, Indiana
• Moores Hill College Collection, Moores Hill, Indiana
• Moores Hill Collegian 1890, 1891, 1892
• Schools - Lexington – Book #1, 1817 thru 1929 (Scott Co.)

• School Days Gone By (oral histories in a binder)
• Schleicher School Daisy Hill #8 school records 1893-1897 (copy)
Charlestown school yearbooks - digital collection (As more are scanned, they will be added)
• Charlestown High School yearbooks 1941, (no 1942 & 1943 published due to WWII),1944, 1946, 1947, (1949 not published), 1952-1970, 1971 (copy), 1972-current
• Charlestown Middle School yearbooks 1988, 1990-1994, 1996, 1999, 2008, 2009
• Charlestown Jr. High yearbook 1973
• 50th Reunion Book for Charlestown High School 1938
• Bethlehem Township Public School Commencement 1921 (microfilm)

• Talking Shop C.A. Prosser Vocational Center 1989-90 Yearbook

MISCELLANEOUS
Indiana, poem by Sarah T. Bolton and music by Frederic Krull
Passport 1872 of Henry Homberger
Holly & Mistletoe Waltz by Ella M. Guernsey, Henryville, Indiana c1880
Twas Only Those Bright Eyes of Blue by Hamilton & Guernsey, Henryville, IN 1883

Sellersburg Library Indiana Room

CEMETERY RECORDS
Clark County cemetery list with locations (updated 2021)
• Clark County 12 Township cemetery listings - early 1990s
• ISCC: Clark County Cemetery and Church Records
• Sellersburg Cemetery, Sellersburg, Indiana circa 2003
• St. John Catholic Church cemetery index 2015
• Scott County Cemetery Records born 1820 living 1978
• Scott County & Washington County Cemeteries
• New Albany National Cemetery Civil War to 2/11/1998

DEATH RECORDS
• Clark County, Indiana Index to death records 1882-1920 vol. 1 A-Z
• Floyd County, Indiana Index to death records 1882-1920 A-Z
• Garr Funeral Home Records 1930-1985, Sellersburg, Indiana
• Littell Funeral Home Records Books 1 & 2 1906-1956
• Obituary Collection By: Borden Historical Society Book 1 & 2

BIRTH RECORDS
• Clark County, Indiana Index to birth records 1882-1920 vol. I A-J, vol. II K-Z
• Floyd County, Indiana Index to birth records 1882-1920 vol. I A-L and vol. II M-Z
• Harrison County, Indiana Index to birth records 1882-1920 A-Z and Index 1921-1941

MARRIAGE RECORDS
• Marriage Records, Clark County, Indiana 1819-1834
• Clark County, Indiana Index to marriage records 1905-1920 vol. I A-C, vol. II D-G, vol. III H-L, vol. IV Mc-P, vol. V Q-S, vol. VI T-Z
• St. John Catholic Church marriages 1861-1941
• Scott County, Indiana Marriages 1820-1850
• Harrison County, Indiana Index 1881-1920 vol. I A-K, vol. II L-Z, 1882-1920 Supplemental Records A-Z

CHURCH HISTORIES AND RECORDS
• A Bicentennial History of Stony Point Christian Church 1798-1998
• The Membership of Speed Memorial Church 1924-1999
• A History of the First Southern Baptist Church of Sellersburg, Indiana by Bertha Lee Cummins 1988
• Sellersburg United Methodist (3-ring binder)
• St. Paul’s United Church of Christ vol. I & II Records and History 1980-1995 (3-ring binder)
• Speed Memorial Church records (3-ring binder)

• Pleasant Grove Church records (3-ring binder)
• Church of Christ Membership rolls for Hamburg Christian Church/Sellersburg Church of Christ: vol. 2 1866 - 1875, vol. 3 1875 - 1913, vol. 4 1913 - Dec. 1942, vol. 5 Jan 1943 - Dec 1957 (3-ring binder)
• Churches of Sellersburg (large 3-ring binder)
• Sellersburg Methodist Episcopal Church Records 1892-1897
• Sellersburg Methodist Episcopal Church Records 1916-1926
• Clarksville Charge methodist Episcopal Church Records 1908-1917
• St. John Catholic Church records 1861-1941 (3-ring binder)

NEWSPAPERS & DIRECTORIES
• Sellersburg News 1961-1963, 1965-1974
• Clark, Floyd & Harrison County, IN Polk City Directory 2008-2022
• Criss Cross 2001-2022
• 1918 Farm Atlas of Clark County

PLACES
• Sellersburg historical tour 2007
• Sellersburg, Indiana history late 1800s-1910
• Sellersburg, Indiana history 19102-1920s
• Sellersburg, Indiana history 1940s-1950s
• Sellersburg, Indiana history 1960s-1970s
• Sellersburg & Speed, Indiana old photographs
• Sellersburg history: Moses Sellers, Absolom Littell
• Sellersburg history: telephone, physcians, tornado 1990, Kiwanis Club, police
• Sellersburg, Indiana town board & town issues 1990s
• Sellersburg, Indiana businesses & citizens
• Sellersburg fire department history
• A Prehistory of the Falls of the Ohio Area by Ruth Seeley Strother
• Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana 1902
• History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties 1882
• Charlestown Community History

• Sellersburg, Indiana: A Brief History and Tour (made for 11x17 paper)

LOUISVILLE CEMENT COMPANY
aerial photograph of the Louisville cement company in Speed, IndianaSpeedometer
The Speed Way
The Warning Star
• Louisville Cement Magazine
Speed Mixer
• Cementing the Past
• Cement Companies of Clark Co., IN histories
• Highlights of Charles Ridenour’s Speed and Cement Industry History
• Speed, Indiana & Louisville Cement Company 1800s-1950s
• Speed, Indiana & Louisville Cement Company 1960s-1970s
• Speed, Indiana history 1920s

• Louisville Cement Company Thirty Year Banquet 1950-1961 (5 3-ring binders)
• Louisville Cement Company pictures of employees
• Louisville Cement Company area pictures
• many other documents in file cabinet
• read about the Jesse G. Dorsey Collection with a brief history of Speed, IN and the Louisville Cement Company

MILITARY (area Soldiers)
Jesse G. Dorsey Collection of World War II Correspondence
Entertainment Scrapbook 1 & 2 of WWII Soldiers
Greetings From Home Christmas 1943, Sellersburg, Indiana
World War II letter writers list
Jesse G. Dorsey Collection of Korean War Correspondence
Korean War letter writers list
• DAR Patriot Index 1966 & DAR Patriot Index Vol. II 1976
• American Legion - Wilber M. Ruuuuuy Post No. 204
• The Civil War - listing of local soldiers and cemetery locations c1987 (3-ring binder, black)
• Memories of World War I Veterans (local stories) (3-ring binder)
• World War I Soldiers (local) (blue folder)
• World War II Soldiers from Sellersburg, IN
• The Honored Dead World War II Sellersburg & Speed
• History of World War II (3-ring binder) Veterans memorial
• ”Lest We Forget – The Community House Letters” (3-ring binder)
• World War II Monument Dedication Sellersburg, Indiana July 4, 1994 (video)
• Indiana State Summary of War Casualties (3-ring binder)
• Korean War Listings of Local & State Soldiers Personnel Who Died from Hostile Action (including missing and captured and declared dead) & 
Korean War Monument Sellersburg, Indiana 1989 (3-ring binder)
• Vienam War Soldiers from Sellersburg, Indiana

YEAR BOOKS & SCHOOLS
Silver Creek High School yearbooks digital collection (as more are scanned they will be added)
• Silver Creek High School yearbooks 1933 (copy), 1941-1942, 1944-45 (copies), 1946-1986, 1988-current
• Silver Creek Junior High yearbooks 1972-1973, 1976-1980, 1982-1989, 1998-2001
• Sellersburg Elementary yearbooks 1973-1974, 1977-1988
• Stout Elementary yearbooks 1973, 1975-1978
• Memphis Elementary yearbooks 1974-1976
Sellersburg and Speed Schools Commencement Program, Sellersburg, IN 1898
Silver Creek Township & Sellersburg Schools Commencement Program, Sellersburg, IN 1893
• A history of Silver Creek high school boys basketball (3-ring binder)
• A history of Silver Creek high school girls basketball (3-ring binder)
• Sellersburg Elementary School principal photographs & faculty lists
• Silver Creek sports photographs (3-ring binder)
• Silver Creek high school alumni directory 2000
A History of Silver Creek High School Basketball by William Bueter

FAMILY HISTORY BOOKS & RECORDS
List of Family Files
• Robisons of Clark County, Indiana & Their Descendants (1759-1997) by Richard E. Hay
• The Bells of Pleasant Ridge 1760-2000 by Paul E. Coffman and Patricia A. Coffman
• The McKinley Clan 1762-1999 by Paul E. Coffman and Patricia A. Coffman


Borden Library

Births, Deaths, Marriages
Clark County cemetery list with locations (updated 2021)

• St. John Catholic Church Cemetery 2015
• Borden obituaries (1989-2022)
• Walnut Hill Cemetery, Borden, Indiana 2008
• Chapel Hill Cemetery - Floyd County, IN
• various cemetery listings for Wood and Carr Townships
• Old obituaries book I (from Borden Sentinel newspaper, late 1800s-early 1900s)
• WWII Obituaries
• Littell Funeral Home Records book 1 & 2 1906-1956
• St. John Catholic Church Records 1861-1941
• Bible records of Clark County DAR
• Clark County, Indiana Abstracts of Wills and Executors’ Records 1801-1833 Marriage Records 1807-1824

Family Histories
• The McKinley Clan 1763-1999
• The Bells of Pleasant Ridge 1760-2000

• The Rockey Family by William Durham
• The Gibsons by John Linza Gibson
• Prince Garfield Huston 1880-1966
• The Goldstar Book by Fanny B. Coats

Various Histories
• 1911 Telephone Directory
• Borden History file
• Martinsburg Store Ledger 1835 (copy)
• Reminiscences of New Providence 1884-1994
• Early Wood Township
• History of the Borden Institute by W.E. Wilson
• Memories of Pleasant Ridge
• Schleicher School Daisy Hill #8 school records 1893-1897

Newspapers
• The Leader 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Giveaway 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Banner-Gazette 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Washington County Edition 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)
• The Scott County Journal/Chronicle 2009-Mar 2018 (on disc)

Borden, Indiana (officially New Providence): A Brief History & Walking Tour (made for 11"x17" paper)

YEAR BOOKS
• Borden School yearbooks (includes K-12 school) 1949-1992, 1994-1996, 1998-2004, 2006-2009, 2011-current
Borden school yearbooks - digital collection 1949-1979 (as more are scanned, they will be added)


New Washington Library

• Clark County cemetery list with locations (updated 2021)
• Cole Family Obituaries
• Area Obituaries 1980-2006 townships of Bethlehem, Oregon, Owen, & Washington
• Family/Community Histories
• Old Newspapers
• national bank directory of 1909
• Newspaper clippings of New Washington School happenings: 1984-current (some pre ‘84)

New Washington, Indiana: A Brief History and Walking Tour brochure (made for 11x17 paper)

YEAR BOOKS
• New Washington High School yearbooks 1950, 1954

• New Washington 1-12 yearbooks 1958, 1961-1964
• New Washington K-12 yearbooks 1970, 1972-1974, 1976
• New Washington Middle and High School yearbooks 1977-1978, 1979 & 1980 (in same book), 1982-2009, 2011-current
• New Washington Elementary yearbooks 1979, 1987-2016
New Washington yearbooks - digital collection (as more are scanned, they will be added)
New Washington High School Commencement program, New Washington, Indiana 1912


Henryville Library

Henryville Walking Tour Brochure
Clark County cemetery list with locations (updated 2021)
• Cemetery records
• some family history files

YEAR BOOKS
Henryville yearbooks - digital collection (as more are scanned, they will be added)
• Henryville High School yearbooks 1948,1949 (copy), 1950-1952, 1953 (copy), 1954-1956, 1960, 1962-1973, 1974 (copy), 1975-1983, 1988-1997, 2000-2001, 2006, 2012-2018, 2020-current

• Henryville Jurnior High School yearbook 2021
• Henryville Elementary yearbooks 1973-1974, 1976-1980, 1993, 2002
• Memphis Elementary yearbooks 1975, 1976, 1978