Williams County

Established: February 12, 1820
County Seat: Bryan

CAC Holdings

Board of Commissioners

1. Blind Relief Record, 1908-1913, 1r (#104)
2. Commissioners' Journals, 1859-1970, 14r (#8-20, 31)
3. Commissioners' Journals - County Home, 1913-1947, 1r (#20)
4. Index to Commissioners' Journals, 1873-1967, 3r (#6-8)

Board of Elections

1. Poll Book & Tally Sheet, 1886, 1r (#104)

Clerk of Courts

District Court

1. Complete Records, 1852-1860, 1r (#35)

Supreme Court

1. Complete Records, 1833-1851, 1r (#35)

County Auditor

1. Civil War Bounties and Military Papers, (Includes Exemptions, Discharges, Receipts, Correspondence, Fiscal Records, Relief Payments and Statements, Applications, & Claims) 1859, 1861-1892, 10r (#21-30)
2. Enumerations of School Age Youth, 1914-1916, 1921-1958 1r (#86)
3. Militia Rolls and Enumerations, 1858, 1861-1865, 1867, 1877, 2r (#20-21)
4. Tax Lists, 1829, 1r (#86)
5. Tax Maps[Scattered dates], 1837-1907, 1r (#104)

County Coroner

1. Inquests, 1898-1920, 1r (#86)

County Home

1. Minutes, 1874-1900, 1r (#39)
2. Registers, 1874-1955, 1r (#38)
3. Visitors Registers, 1874-1896, 1917-1953, 1r (#39)

County Recorder

1. Deed Records, 1881-1886, 4r (#40-43)

County Treasurer

1. Tax Duplicates, 1837, 1839, 1841-1859, 1860-1905, 33r (#2-5, 58-85, 89-93)

Court of Common Pleas

1. Appearance Dockets, 1852-1857, 1r (#32)
2. Chancery Records, 1841-1857, 1r (#33)
3. Execution Dockets, 1855-1931, 6r (#94-99)
4. General Index, 1824-1878, 1r (#34)
5. Journals, 1824-1857, 2r (#32-33)

Probate Court

1. Birth Records, 1867-1943, 2r (#45-46)
2. Civil Dockets, 1859-1887, 1r (#36)
3. Death Records, 1867-1943, 2r (#45-46)
4. General Index, 1868-1924, 1r (#44)
5. Guardian Record, 1878, 1r (#86)
6. Index to Marriage Records, 1824-1868, 1r (#1)
7. Marriage Records, 1824-1941, 11r (#1,47-52, 100-103)
8. Naturalization Records, 1836-1839, 1842, 1860-1864, 1873-1906, 1922-1929, 1r (#37)
9. Records of Ministers' Licenses, 1872-1937, 1r (#104)
10. Statements of Births and Deaths, 1900-1901, 1904-1908, 1r (#87)
11. Will Records, 1809-1852, 1858-1911, 5r (#53-57)

Townships

Townships

Bridgewater Township        

Board of Trustees

1. Soldiers’ Relief Records, 1890-1910, 1r (#1)

Pulaski Township

Board of Education

1. Minutes, 1853-1887; 1911-1914; 1923-1954, 1r (#1)
2. School Register, 1900-1901; 1919-1921, 1r (#1)
3. Annual Reports, 1917-1919, 1r (#1)
4. Enumeration of School Age Youth, 1935, 1r (#1)

Other Resources

• Cemetery indexes for Brady, Bridgewater, Center, Florence, Jefferson, Madison, Millcreek, Northwest, Pulaski, Springfield. St. Joseph, and Superior Townships.
• Census index for 1870.
• Potts, William M. A Necrology Index of Williams County, Ohio Residents as Reported in The Bryan Democrat, 1885-1910. University of Toledo, 1973.
• Lash, Pamela Pattison. Williams County, Ohio Marriages: Volumes 1-8. Bryan, Ohio: Williams County Chapter, OGS, 1984.