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Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society

Index to Pierce County and Various Washington Records

Published 1969 - 2009 in The Researcher, Volumes 1 - 40

A bibliography of records published in The Researcher through Vol. 18 was published in the fall of 1987 as a resource for those seeking Pioneer Certificates. That index is, for the most part, repeated here with additions through Vol. 30. The 1987 listing included pioneer surnames and surnames from Bible records. This index does not. In those instances where articles were republished, only the second publication is noted. Numbers shown are volume number (issue number). Abbreviations: WSHS - Washington State Historical Museum Library; SHS - Steilacoom Historical Society.

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Volume : Issue numbers are in Bold

Bible Records

Index to Bibles at Steilacoom Historical Society 18:3
Index to Bibles at Washington State Historical Society 6:3; 8:1-2; 10:4; 13:3; 14:3

Cemetery Records

Pierce County Cemeteries - Partial list prepared by Exempt Properties Division. Includes location and contact information as of 1977. 9:4
Alder I.O.O.F. Memorial Stones (Alder, Pierce County) 17:3
Bayview Cemetery (see Vaughn Bay) 10:2-3
Breidableck Evergreen (3 miles north on Hwy 3, Poulsbo, Kitsap County) 6:2
Burley (Kitsap County) 2:4
Byrd Family (Steilacoom, Pierce County) 5:1
East Side Spanaway (Spanaway, Pierce County) 2:3
Ethel Greenwood (Ethel, Lewis County) 6:1
Firwood Indian (North of Puyallup, Pierce County) 2:4
Ft. Steilacoom: 20 interments removed to San Francisco 2:4 and 17:1
Gethsemane (formerly St. George's R.C., near Indian School, Tacoma) 7:2
Indian Shaker Church (Mayfield, Lewis County) 1962 removals to Harmony Cemetery, Mossyrock 6:4
Ivy Green (Bremerton, Kitsap County): Abbott - Grant 8:4; Graves - Olsen 9:1; Olsen - Schmidt 9:2; Seth - Zinter 9:3
King Hill Indian (Ft. Lewis, Pierce County) 3:3
Kitsap County - Miscellaneous records 1:2
Lakewood Memorial Gardens I.O.O.F. Tombstones (West of Home of Peace, Steilacoom Blvd, Lakewood) 5:2
Mahon Family (adjoins Brookdale Golf Course, Tacoma) 3:1
Mineral (Bethel, Lewis County) 17:2
Minter Pioneer (South of Key Peninsula) 1:2
Mountain View (Farmington, Whitman County) 1:2
Old Puyallup Indian (2232 E 28^th, Tacoma) Allen-Jackson 4:1; Jackson - Sam 4:2; Seattle - Young 4:3
Old Settlers as of 1963 (Washington Blvd SW, Lakewood) 4:3
Old South - 24 memorials (Cle Elum, Kittitas County) 16:1
Phinney Bay Indian (Bremerton, Kitsap County) 6:4
Puyallup Reservation Catholic Funerals 1890-1924 (Pierce County) 7:4
Riffe - Removals before 1967 to Doss Cemetery, Mossyrock (Lewis County) 7:1
Roy Cemetery (Roy, Pierce County) headstones 8:3
St. George (see Gethsemane) 7:2
Seabeck (near Bremerton, Kitsap County) 3:2
Sequim Prairie Memorial Park - Headstones copied 1976; last burial in 1904 (Sequim, Clallam County) 13:1
Spanaway - east side (South 176^th, Spanaway, Pierce County) 2:3
Tracyton as of 1970 (Fairgrounds Road, near Silverdale, Kitsap County) 6:3
Vaughn Bay (Pierce County, formerly Bayview Cemetery) 10:2-3
Yelm - Rainier 5:4

Census Records (see also Schools)

1854 Pierce County — Includes state / country of prior residence. 13:3
1860 Pierce County 1:2-3
1878 Pierce County Auditor's Census: Abernathy - Buroe 22:2; Burr - Grainger 22:3; Grainger - Lemmons 22:4; Madden - Root 23:2; Leonard - Lyons, Ross - Sue 23:3; Sullivan - Zimmerman 24:4
1885 Census of New Tacoma, Washington Territory 28:4
1889-90 Buckley 16:2
1892 Pierce County Census: Aalrust - Alstrom 10:2; Alstrom - Armstrong 10:4; Armstrong - Ayri 10:4; Baaken - Baker 11:3; Bakien - Bell 12:3; Bell - Bessimer 12:4; Bessle - Blinn 13:3

Church Records

Asbury United Methodist 1892-1908 Members (Edison / S. Tacoma) 13:4
St. Luke's Episcopal Baptisms 1879-1881 7:4
St. Luke's Episcopal Communicants in 1881 1:1
St. Peter's Episcopal Parish Register 1873-1880 1:1
St. Peter's Episcopal Baptisms 1875-1888 1:3
St. Peter's Episcopal Marriages 1876-1888 1:3
St. Peter's Episcopal 1873-1886: Baptisms 7:4

Court Records

District Court Docket for 1886 19:1; 20:2

Funeral Homes

Piper Funeral Home 1908-1929 (alphabetical within year of death) 1908-1919 10:1; 1919-1922 10:2; 1923-1924 10:3; 1925 11:1; 1926 11:2; 1927-1928 11:3; 1929 11:4
Automatic Sealing Burial Vault Co. Register ca 1934 - 1937 40:Summer

Land Records

Land Grants Explained 7:1
Pierce County Donation Land Claims 1849-1888: Balch - Wright 1:1
Roy Donation Land Claims 8:3

Military Records

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients 14:3
Mexican War Survivors as of 1926 14:1
National Indian War Veterans Membership in 1929, Sheridan Camp 26 (Seattle) Some service data included 13:3
Spanish-American War 1st Washington Volunteers 1939 Roster 18:3-4
United Spanish War Veterans of Pierce County Roster 1942 39:Summer
WWI Casualties, Washington State National Guard 28:3
WWI Draft Registration Names and Numbers, Pierce County District 2 (Outside of Tacoma), including corrections 19:3 - 20:3
WWI Draft Registration Names and Numbers, Tacoma District 1 20:4; 21:3; 22:1; 25:2; 26:2
WWI Draft Registration Names and Numbers, Tacoma District 4 15:2; 25:3-4; 26:1-2
WWI Draft Names and Numbers, all districts, Lottery 26:3
WWII Casualty List, Pierce County 36:1
WWII Pierce County, Memorial Monument Database 39:Summer
WWII Puget Sound Navy Yard Directory, 1944 39:Summer

Miscellaneous Lists

Butchers in Tacoma 1893 26:3
Dressmakers of Tacoma 1920 35:1
Longshore Workers of Tacoma 1886-1934, Alphabetical List 35:4; 36:1-4; 37:2
Music Teachers of Tacoma 1920 34:3
Natches Pass Immigrants 1:2
Photographers of Pierce County 1870-1910 30:3
Recorded Brands and Marks in Pierce County 1886 26:3
Roy Area Newspapers Names' Index, various issues 1890 - 1931 38:Summer
Steerage Passengers of S.S. Amsterdam, May 11, 1880 20:3
Surname Index for Kunschak's History of Roy 8:3
U.S. Directory of Members, 38th Congress, 2nd Session, 1865 27:3
Wilkeson Coal & Coke Company Accident Log 1909-1912: 27:2

Mortuaries - see Funeral Homes

Naturalizations

248 Naturalizations in Tacoma on Oct 12, 1896 28:3
Town of Wilkeson 1910 - 1928, see Voter Registration 16:1

Probate Case Abstracts for Pierce County, Washington Territory

(includes Probate, Intestate, Insanity, and Adoption cases)

Probate Papers and Process Explained 16:4 and 29:4
Abstracts of complete files between 1851 - 1884:
- Cases 1-10 16:4 (Stanheimer, Nelson, Thompson, Wade, Hunter-Buchanon, Forrest, Van Buskirk, Williams)
- Cases 1-25 23:4 (Sturnheimer, Nelson, Thompson, Wade, Hunter, Buchanan, Forrest, Van Buskirk, Williams, Forrest, Labousleer, Connell, Slaughter, Clarendon, Reams, Lecky, Lecky, Faucette, Berry, Moses, Clute, Withiel, Carr, Stone, Pierce)
- Cases 26-41 24:1 (Smith, Smith, Schroter, Clendenin, Schwartz, Fitch, Cronen, Reedy, Smith, Smith, Latour, Johnson, Smith, Balch, Latour, Bastian / Baston, Westbrook, Meeker, Perkins)
- Cases 42-56 24:2 (Bastian, Burr, Meeker, Allard, Faterea, Rafferty, Helm, Barnhart, Conley, Ballenden, Barr, Bedington, Mulkey, White)
- Cases 57-59 24:3 (Ah Quam / Kern, Williams, Balch)
- Cases 60-62 24:4 (Balch, Suckley, Bates)
- Cases 63-73 25:1-4 (Byrd, Hughes, Van Buskirk, Kruber, Byrd, Bradley, Gallagher, Spinning, Webber)
- Cases 74-78 26:2 (Webb, Tootwaller, Kautz, Heise, Headley)
- Cases 79-87 26:3-4 (Rambo, Berry, Clark, Wilton, Wright, Whealen / Whalen, Meeker, Robb, Chittick)
- Cases 88-95 27:1-3 (McDaniel, Robb, Hanson, McLeod, Prince, Lambert, Ford, Reinholdt)
- Cases 96-115 28:1-3 (Cawley, Hoffman, Croft, Crofts, Johnson, Williamson, Sherman, Owen, Weller, Meeker, Owen, Speak, Clendenin, O'Neal, Williams, Toner, LeBouchalier, Ross, Westfall, Wren)
- Cases 116-138 29:1-4 (Chilson, Hilton, Byrd, Wren, Brooks, Beldan, Elbritt, Smith, Rogers, Myers, Downey, Dougherty, Bartlett, Northover, McAlloster, Kanchalua, Davison, Foss, Lowell, Sloan, Seaman)
- Cases 139-140 30:1 (Thompson, McCarver)
- Case 140 30:2 (McCarver)
- Cases 141-145 30:3 (Kincaid, More/Moore, Davis, Voigt, Farara)
- Cases 146-148 29:4 (Vining, Croft, Bonney)
- Cases 149-152 31:1 (Sealy/Sealey, Starr, Brewer, Steel)
- Case 153 31:2 (Highstrem)
- Cases 154-160.5 31:1 (Chambers, Mounts, Hitchcock, McPhail, Sing, Kelly, Crofts, Reople)
- Case 161 31:4 (McCaw)
- Cases 162-163 32:1 (Byrd, Haslam)
- Cases 164-170 32:2 (Dickens, Calder, Scott, Arnold, Redel, Stewart, Jamison)
- Cases 171-178 32:3 (Porter, Bishop, Hildreth, Brown, O'Farrell, Dickens, Martin, Zoberst, Wallace)
- Cases 179-180 32:4 (Swan, Walker)
- Cases 181-186 33:1 (Walker, McHenry, Wisman, Mahard, Morehouse, Molina)
- Cases 187-188 33:2 (Sherman, Goodtime)
- Cases 190-195 33:3 (Abplanoff, Weednhold, Wiederhold, Clarke, Orchard, McHugh)
- Cases 196-200 33:4 (O'Farrell, Porter, Northover, Lewis, Richter)
- Cases 201-203 34:1 (Laurence, Bates, Kelly / Alden)
- Cases 204-209 34:2 (Ingall, Cox, Low / Lowe, Kythman, Dohu, McCaw)
- Cases 210-215 34:4 (Barnes, Johnson, Silk, Ahlberg / Bokker, Emery, Anderson, Bendure, Browner)
- Cases 216-223 35:1 (Maxwell, Washburn, Calder, Mortenson, Hazen, Nelson, Scoock / Schoock, Stone, Wing)
- Cases 224-228 35:2 (Collins, Heitman, Les Grieff, Rusow / Russow / Russeaux, Goodtime, Moorey)
- Cases 229-232 35:3 (Ingalls, Orchard, Sears, Gamble)
- Cases 233-238 35:4 (Walton, Snyder, Ross, Russow, Campbell, Halstead, Cheeseman)
- Cases 239-243 36:1 (Costley, Whitebread, Smith, Anderson, Hurley)
- Cases 244-246 36:2 (Clark, Hewitt, Miller)
- Cases 247-249 36:3 (Morse, Callaghan, Erberspacher)
- Cases 250-257 36:4 (Crim, McAtee, Sauriol, Hendricks, Luviney / Loviney / Laviney, Baldwin, Mowbry)
- Cases 255-261 37:1 (Meeker, Kirchner, Aleplanalp / Abplananp, Campeter / Kampeter, Williamson)
- Cases 262-266 37:2 (Swan, Roe, Stone, Gilbert, Squires)
- Cases 267-274 37:3-4 (Schultz, DeWitt, Leboauf, Morris, Campbell / Kelley, Halstead, Clifton / Clayton, Lamar, Lockenfitz)
- Cases 275-290 38 Summer (Barron, Durgin, Thompson, Mann, Williamson, Johnson, Oertel, Orchard, Hayden, Bourne, Evans, Peterson, Clark, Forrest)
Pierce County Will Book #3: Abstracts of Wills Proved between 17 Jan 1890 and 1 May 1894: (Testators' names in parentheses)
- 25:4 (Huston, Bowen, Barlow, Upper, Doncaster, Pine, Burkhart, Wright, Brown, Williams, Perry, Passmore, Ball, Thompson)
- 26:1 (Long, Town, Bowen, Spaulding, Baker, Hays, Monroe, Culver, Loebelein, McRae, Owens, Pettingell, Kaufman, Stevens)
- 26:2 (Green, Small, Fahy, Dunkel, Starkweather, Hooden, Nixon, Kimball, Ingham, Rue, McKay)
- 26:3 (Hansen, Meldrum, Kane, Bridges, Lane, Clough, Bell, Fuchs, Sedgwick)
- 26:4 (Schafer, Sinclair, Hartshorn, Sutton, Hone, Doney, Herbert, Everett, Sampson, Settlemier)
- 27:1 (Mackintosh, McDonald, Dean, Turner, Bonney, Murphy, Rigney, Paxton, Marvin)
- 27:2 (Bashford, Beardsley, Sumner, Perkins, Beery,Dillon, Barlow, Miles, Dwars, Williams, Steves, Milbank, Page, Dwyer, Canioni, Perrenoud, Black, Gardner)
- 27:3 (Marcum, Kandle, Dawson, Elliot, Swanson, Bushnell, Shumway, Butts, Ivory, Clement, Fay, Squires, Chamberlin, Downey)
- 27:4 (Wright, Lockwood, McMillan, Thompson, Fleming, Fisher, Danforth, Piercy, Hofstetter, Hatfield, Gribble, McMillan, McGivan)
- 28:1 (Kelly, Mahncke, Sprague, Stewart, Lamouche, Humphreys, Rigney, Fuller / Steele, James, Stacy, Ainsworth)
- 28-2 (Calkins, Fay, Paddock, Hills, French, Williams, Roholt, Campbell, Averill, Taylor, Stevens, Wright, Bredemeyer)

School Records and Censuses

Fannie Paddock School Of Nursing Graduates 1898-1920 34:2
Guide for Using Washington's School Records 17:2
Pierce County School Districts' Boundaries, Names and Number Changes Since Inception 26:1
Mrs. Bonney's School in 1854 15:4
Music Teachers of Tacoma 1920 34:3
Roy, Washington High School Annuals' Index 1925 - 1930 37:3-4
1885 Census, New Tacoma (School District #13) 28:4
1909 Aquinas School Census 28:2
1909 Bryant School District Census 34:4; 35:1-3
1909 Central School Census: 30:2-3
1909 Cushman School District Census 36:4
1909 Edison School District Census 35:4; 36:1-3
1909 Emerson School Census: 30:4-31:1
1909 Franklin School Census 29:2
1909 Garfield School Census 29:4
1909 Grant School District Census 37:1-2
1909 Hawthorne School District Census 31:2
1909 Irving School District Census 32:2
1909 Jefferson School Census 29:3
1909 Lincoln School District Census 31:3-4
1909 Logan School District Census 33:1-2
1909 Longfellow School District Census 32:1
1909 Lowell School Census 28:1-2
1909 Mann School District Census 33:3-4; 34:1
1909 McKinley School District Census 34:2-3
1909 Oakland School Census 29:1
1909 Rogers School District Census 37:3-4
1909 Roosevelt School Census 29:1
1909 Sheridan School Census 29:2
1909 Sherman School District Census 32:3-4
1909 St. Edwards Hall Census 28:2
1909 Washington School Census 30:1
1909 Whitman School District Census 38:Summer
1909 Willard School District Census 39:Summer

Tax and Utility Records

1886 Delinquent Land Tax List Index 18:2
1893 - 1901 Tacoma City Light Receipts 34:2-3
1900 - 1901 Tacoma City Light Receipts 35:3
1901 - 1902 Tacoma City Light Receipts 36:2-3
1921 Poll Tax Receipts 19:1

Vital Records, Pierce County and Miscellaneous Locations

Tacoma Delayed Birth Certificate Indexes:
- Circa 1876-1896 (Book A) 21:3
- 1894-1901 (Book B) 21:4
- 1902-1907 (Book C) 22:1
- 1882-1907 (Book D) 22:3
Births attended by Dr. Jesse Dale Jewell, U.S.N. between 1923-1939 at Bremerton (WA), Newport (CA) and Cuba 21:3
Pierce County Marriage License Indexes:
- 1853-1866 Bride / Groom Index 17:1
- 1866-1876 Bride / Groom Index 17:2
- 1877-1880 Bride / Groom Index 17:3
- 1889 - 29 Dec. 1890 - ordered by date 23:1-4
- 30 December 1890-10 March 1892 - ordered by date 24:1,3,4
- 11 March 1892 to 1 February 1893 - ordered by date 25:1-3
Pierce County Marriages - Locating Records 29:2
Roy, Washington Marriages 1941-1957: 30:1-2
Pierce County Death Records Extraction:
- 1891-1895: Adams - Cheeseman 3:1; Cheeseman - Evans 3:2; Addendum; Fallon - Huntley 3:3; Addendum; Hillis - Kinley 4:1; Kinney - Lowell 4:2; Lucien - Owens 4:3; Papadakin - Smith 4:4; Smith - Zimmer 5:1
- 1896 Albutt - Lester 5:3; Levitt - Wright 5:4
- 1897: Abbott - Quiett 6:3; Palmer - Wrightington 6:4
- 1898: Alphabetical 7:1
- 1899-1901: Abercrombie - Brink 8:4; Brink - Curtis 9:1; Daak - Fritz 9:2; Froggett - Mason 9:3; Massey - Zimmerman 9:4
- 1902-1907: Aamodt - Curry 10:4; Curry - Feet 11:1; Fehrmann - McWilliams 11:3; Maberly - Szezarkowski 11:4; Taaker - Zurntos 12:1
Record Book (Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths) of Army Chaplain Rev. Carl Nylund: 1925-1974 in CA, IN, IL, IA, WA, 17:4; 18:1; 19:4, 20:4

Voter Registration

1884 Tacoma Voters list (names 103 women) 25:3
Town of Buckley Registered Voters 1895, 1898, 1899 16:2-3
Pierce County Records Locations 30:1
Wilkeson Registered Voters 1910-1928 16:1

Washington Pioneer Lists

1884 Daily Ledger (200 names) 15:4
Early Settlers of Washington Territory, Deaths between 1911-1916 19:4
List of registrants, 1892 Western Washington Exposition 18:2
List of stories published in 1892 Daily Ledger 18:2
Natches Pass Immigrant Records 1:2
Pioneer Necrologies by Surname: 32:2 through 34:2
Okanogan Pioneers 10:1
Pioneer Association Members in 1889 31:1-4; 32:1
Sumner Pioneers 18:3
Thumbnail sketches from Washington State Historical Society files 5:1-3

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