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| Cemetery Records | Census Records | Church Histories |
| County Histories | Family Histories | Military Records |
| Other |
| Publication | Volunteer E-Mail | Comments |
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| DeWitt Cemetery | ||
| Duplain Cemetery Duplain Township |
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| Elsie Village Cemetery Elsie, Duplain Township |
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| Eureka Cemetery Greenbush Township |
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Clinton County Historical Society Published 1996 |
| Maple Grove Cemetery Ovid, Michigan |
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Courtesy of the Elsie Historical Society |
| Mt. Rest Cemetery Burials St Johns, Michigan |
Clinton County Historical Society Published 2000 | |
| Oak Ridge Cemetery Bengal Township |
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| Riverside Cemetery Elsie, Duplain Township |
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Courtesy of the Elsie Historical Society |
| South Ovid Cemetery Ovid Township |
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| Union Home Cemetery Greenbush Township |
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| Wacousta Cemetery Watertown Township |
Published 2002 |
| Publication | Volunteer E-Mail | Comments |
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| 1860 Census | ||
| 1860 Census for Westphalia Township | ||
| 1864 Agricultural Census |
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| 100th year of Most Holy Trinity Parish, Fowler, Michigan. | |||
| DeWitt Circuit Methodist Records | Includes DeWitt Methodist, Emanuel Methodist, Redeemer Methodist, and others from about 1860-present | ||
| Of Pilgrimage, Prayer, and Promise, a Story of St. Mary's Westphalia, 1836 to 1986 | or |
Visit Michigan County Histories for online page images from these old publications:
- Portrait and Biographical Album of Clinton and Shiawassee Counties - Chapman Bros., 1891.
- Past and Present of Clinton County - Judge S. B. Daboll, The S.J. Clarke publishing Co., 1906.
- History of Shiawasse and Clinton Counties - D.W. Ensign & Co., 1880.
| Publication | Volunteer E-Mail | Comments | |
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| Forgotten Communities of Central Michigan | |||
| History of Clinton County, Michigan, 1980 | or |
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| History of Shiawassee and Clinton Counties, Michigan (1880) | or |
This work is also available online:
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| Biographical and Sketches of Clinton County 1892 | |||
| History of Bath Charter Township |
| Publication | Volunteer E-Mail | Comments |
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| FOX family tree by Philip Fox of Minnesota | Includes many Clinton County residents | |
| DEGURSE, PLOWMAN, AND REEB Family History | ||
| Descendants of Matthew and Arabella (PIERCE) HUSTON of St. Johns | There are connections to families of Hicks (John the merchant of St. Johns) and Curtis. Matthew and Arabella were born in the early 1800s, migrating to Dewitt, and then St. Johns in the 1830s from Shelburne VT. They and some of their younger children are buried in Mt. Rest Cem., St. Johns. I'd be glad to look up or share info. | |
| Descendents of Mathias Kramer of Westphalia Twp | I have just privately published a book on the descendents of Mathias Kramer of Westphalia Twp. Although the book will not be made publicly available (no birthdates will be given for anyone born after 1920). | |
| Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak | A verbal Portrait of the Descendants of Johann Peter Pohl and Maria Catharina Hellenthal 1841-1992. Written by Allan R. Pohl, 1992. | |
| SCHLICHT, SCHAFER, MARTIN, and FEDEWA family trees done by Sister Pauline Schafer | ||
| Ezra Thornton, his descendants and some of his ancestors | Surnames include: Thornton, Plowman, Keller, Cronkite, Emmons, Grubaugh, Peters, Vrooman. |
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| Civil War Archives | They have extensive information on the personnel, officers, medals given to whom and when, and the battles fought. I have found many of my relatives, using this tool and then ordered their pension records, for $10 each from the federal government. | |
| Service Records of the 8th MI Infantry | It lists those soldiers that were in the 8th MI Infantry. Looks like many are from Clinton County. It lists what their enlistment dates, Companies, rank, city or county that they enlisted out of, muster in and out dates and sometimes more. |
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| Clinton Co Farm Plat Map booklet ca.1961 | ||
| Untersuchungen zur Methode und Technik der deutschamerikanischen Wanderungsforschung | This 1939 work by Joseph Scheben, in German, discusses many of the early emigrants from the Eifel region in Germany to Westphalia Township, Clinton County, Michigan. It includes transcriptions of letters home. See a List of Surnames discussed. | |
| Wir verlangen nicht mehr nach Deutschland: Auswandererbriefe und Dokumente der Sammlung Joseph Scheben (1825-1938). |
This 2003 work by Jürgen Macha, et. al. is written in German. It contains over 400 letters transcribed by Joseph Scheben in the 1930s (i.e., the "Scheben Letters"). Emigrants from the German Eifel region during the 1800s wrote these letters back home to relatives and friends. Many letters are from those who immigrated to the Midwestern and Western United States. The book has an extensive index. There are separate indices of those who sent letters, those who received letters, and those mentioned in the letters. There is a location index that includes countries, states, counties, and towns. There is even a subject index where you can find all letters that mention a topic like agriculture, religion, clothes or food. |
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| Clinton County Pioneer Society Records, 1873-1935 | CD-ROM. |
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