Resources for Research
(Prepared by Earl Rook)
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Garden County Churches
- Lewellen
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Organized: September 1906
- History: 70th Anniversary, 6 September 1976, copy at church office
- Records: baptism, marriage, and death; 1906 to present
- Lewellen United Methodist Church
- Organized: 1891
- History: None known
- Records: baptism, marriage, and death; 1891 to present; may not be complete; also membership rolls
- Lisco
- Evergreen Church - no longer in existence
- Organized: unknown date
- History: none known
- Records: transferred to St. Mark's Lutheran, Oshkosh
- Lisco Presbyterian Church
- Organized: 14 March 1909
- History: none known
- Records: baptism, marriage, and death; November1913 to present
- Oshkosh
- Antelope Valley Sunday School
- Built: 1916
- Records: baptism, marriage, and death; only partial records
- Cemetery: earliest date 1897
- Assembly of God
- Organized: 1949
- History: none known
- Records: none known
- Kowanda Methodist Church - no longer in existence
- Organized: 1897, closed 1974
- History: Kowanda History 1978, copy at Oshkosh Museum
- Records: baptism 1941 - 1970, marriage 1947 - 1954, death 1950 - 1975; records transferred to Oshkosh United Methodist Church.
- Cemetery: established about 1915
- Mount Hope Methodist Church - no longer in existence
- Organized: date unknown
- History: none known, Clary was early minister
- Records: transferred to Lewellen Methodist Church, now in Oshkosh
- Oshkosh Methodist Church
- Organized 1 April 1911
- History: none known
- Records: baptism 1911 - 1983, 1911 baptisms are listed at Lewellen Methodist Church, now at Oshkosh; marriage and death records incomplete
- Oshkosh Seventh Day Adventist
- Organized: 11 April 1970
- History: none known
- Records: baptism, marriage, and death; 1970 to present
- St. Elizabeth's Church
- Organized: date unknown
- History: none known
- Records: baptism, marriage, and death; from about 1922
- Cemetery: no records
- St. George Episcopal
- Organized: 1959
- History: none known
- Records: baptism, marriage, and death; 1959 to present
- St. Mark's Lutheran
- Organized: September 1906
- History: annual report, 1982; booklet printed in 1976, copy at church office
- Records: baptism, marriage, and death; 1906 to present
- The Wesleyan Church
- Organized:26 June 1924
- Originally the International Holiness Church of Nebraska, located at Antelope Valley in 1921
- History: 40 Year History, by Hortense Law
- Records: baptism, marriage since 1968, and death since 1928 but incomplete
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Garden County Courthouse
- Garden County, Nebraska official website* off site
- County Assessor and County Treasurer
- Assessments
- Drivers License
- Motor Vehicle
- Personal Property
- Real Estate
- County Attorney and County Judge
- Civil Court Records, 1910 to
- District Court Records, 1910 to present
- Marriage Records, 1910 to present
- County Clerk and District Court
- Commissioners Proceedings, 1910 to present
- Divorce Records, 1910 to present
- Jurors Records
- Land Records, Patents, and Deeds, 1887 to present
- Naturalization Records, 1910 to 1929, indexed
- Voter Registrations, 1967 to present
- County Superintendent of Schools
- Minutes of School District, 28 June 1909 to present
- Petition for Change of School Boundaries, 1910
- School Board Members, Officers, and Teachers, 1916 to 1949
- School Census, July 1917
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Garden County Funeral Homes
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Garden County Genealogical/Historical Societies
- Historical Society of Garden County/Rock School Museum
- Museum website * off site
- PO Box 90
West 2nd & Avenue G
Oshkosh, NE 69154
- Phone: (308) 772-3115
- Nebraska State Historical Society Library & Archives
- Library & Archives website * off site
- 1500 "R" Street
Lincoln, Nebraska 68501
- Materials include but are not limited to Garden County marriages and newspapers on microfilm.
- Nebraska State Genealogical Society
- Nebraska State Genealogical Society website * off site
- P.O. Box 5608
Lincoln, NE 68505-0608
- The NESGS Book Library is housed at the Beatrice Public Library
- 100 North 16th St.
Beatrice, NE 68310
- Phone: (402) 223-3584
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Garden County Libraries
- Lewellen Public Library
- 208 Main Street
PO Box 104
Lewellen, Nebraska 69147-0104
- Materials include Nebraska history books, histories of Panhandle
counties, Volumes 1 and 2 of the 1882 History of the State of Nebraska,
and an 1876 scrapbook of Lewellen. No newspaper collection.
- Oshkosh Public Library
- Oshkosh Public Library website * off site
- 307 West First Street
P.O. Box 140
Oshkosh, Ne 69154
- Materials include Shumway's 3 volume Nebraska history, pamphlets
on Garden County and Oshkosh, Nebraska History Magazine (1970 - 1979),
natural history materials, and The Brown Odessy, a local history
of Lewellen. No newspaper collection.
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Garden County Newspapers
- Lewellen
- Deuel County News
- See Oshkosh, Garden County News
- Lewellen Gazette
- June 1911 to February 1912; September 1914 to December 1917
- Available on microfilm at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- Lewellen Optimist
- March 1917 to August 1918; June 1919 to April 1923
- Available on microfilm at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- Lewellen Times
- December 1937 to October 1943
- Available on microfilm at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- West Nebraska Beacon
- See Oshkosh, West Nebraska Beacon
- Lisco
- Lisco Tribune
- July 1919 to July 1922
- Available on microfilm at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- Oshkosh
- Garden County News
- July 1909 to present
- Available on microfilm at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- Oshkosh Herald
- August 1908 to January 1917; January 1918 to February 1919
- Available on microfilm at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- West Nebraska Beacon
- February 1929 to July 1936
- Available on microfilm at the Nebraska State Historical Society
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Sources: Guide to the Newspaper Collection of the State Archives,
Nebraska State Historical Society, Anne P. Diffendal, 1977, pp. 47, 50,
64; as cited in A Research Guide To Genealogical Data In DEUEL and
GARDEN COUNTIES, Nebraska State Genealogical Society, January 1984,
p. 38.
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