Sullivan County
Indiana

Courthouse Fire

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Sullivan Co.
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Families
Perhaps Related To Portwoods
Portwood
Davidson
Nash
McCammon
Lamb
Menifee
Hackett
Nash
Sullivan Co. Places
Haddon Township

Sullivan Co.
Cemeteries McCammon Cemetery
Benefiel Cemetery
Hackett Cemetery
Davidson Cemetery

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The purpose of this website is to encourage desendents of residents of Sullivan County, Indiana to get FREE DNA testing to compensate for records lost in the courthouse fire of 1850. DNA can help discover family connections that were lost by destroyed records.

You may order FREE oarticipation kits from:
http://www.smgf.org/pages/request_kit.jspx


The emphasis is on the Portwood and related families but all others are welcome to participate in the project. Subject to limitations, especially limitations of volunteer's personal time.
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Indiana Destroyed Courthouses
http://myindianagenealogy.com/index.htm

"...Twenty-eight of the ninety-two Indiana courthouses suffered courthouse fires, many of them rebuilt only to be destroyed again by fire or natural disaster..."

The Sullivan Co. courthouse was one of the 28 Indiana courthouses that burned "...destroyed by Fire in Feb. 1850, All records destroyed except wills from 1841..."

[http://myindianagenealogy.com/index.htm] "...has a list of Indiana Counties and the years the Courthouses were subjected to a disaster. This does NOT mean that ALL RECORDS were lost. Often, folks took their documents again in for recording after a disaster and later deeds will contain long chains of title, etc..."

"...Sullivan County Courthouse destroyed by Fire in Feb. 1850, All records destroyed except wills from 1841..."
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Davidson, Booker, Hackett

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SISSON/2003-02/1046224138 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INSULLIV/1999-06/0929876116

From: Rose and Don Deal Subject: Sullivan co. courthouse Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 06:55:16 -0400

Would some one please send the date and damage caused by the fire in the Sullivan County court house when it burned a long time ago? How much data was lost, if any? When I was a kid playing around the square, my grandparents and great grandparents talked about the fire. Rose from Florida
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http://searches2.rootsweb.com/th/read/BLEVINS/1998-08/0902196697

..." have been trying to connect the various BLEVINS families from my part of the country for years. Unfortunately, most of the records of Sullivan Co. IN were lost in a courthouse fire in the 1850s and only go back to that time..."

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