Source Information

Ancestry.com. Wabash County, Indiana History [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: History of Wabash County, Indiana. Chicago, IL, USA: John Morris, 1884.

About Wabash County, Indiana History

This database contains a history of Wabash County, Indiana. Topics covered in this work include Indians and the discovery of the area, wars, settlement, Indiana as a territory, Indiana as a state, geography and geology of the area, township histories, etc. Biographical sketches of some of the more prominent residents of the area are interspersed among the historical details.

Historical works contain valuable information that can be a great addition to your genealogical research. Although historical works will generally not mention your ancestors specifically, they do provide information on the time and place in which your ancestors lived, which will help you place your ancestors in a historical context.