Henry County

Established: 12 February 1820
County Seat: Napoleon
Map of Henry County Townships

Click townships in orange to be directed to our newspaper holdings.

  • Alma
  • Bartlow Township
  • Beaver Creek
  • Black Ash
  • Colton
  • Damascus
  • Damascus Township
  • Deshler
  • Durand
  • Elery
  • Flatrock Township
  • Florida
  • Freedom Mills
  • Freedom Township
  • Gallup
  • Gerald
  • Grelton
  • Hamler
  • Harrison Township
  • Holgate
  • Le Sueur
  • Liberty Center
  • Liberty Township
  • Malinta
  • Marion Township
  • McClure
  • McLain
  • Monroe Township
  • Naomi
  • Napoleon
  • Napoleon Township
  • New Bavaria
  • Odessa
  • Okolona
  • Peters Corner
  • Petonquet
  • Pleasant Bend
  • Pleasant Township
  • Richfield Township
  • Ridge
  • Ridgeland
  • Ridgeville Corners
  • Ridgeville Township
  • Shunk
  • Stanley
  • Texas
  • Tubbsville
  • Turkey Foot
  • Washington Township
  • Westhope
  • Willford

Board of Commissioners

  1. Commissioners' Journals, 1847-1987, 34r (#4-23, 81-94)
  2. Commissioners' Journals - County Home, 1913-1987, 2r (#26,80)
  3. Index to Commissioners' Journals (Bills Allowed: 1881-1933), 1881-1933, 1954-1986, 5r (#1-4,80)

Clerk of Courts

District Court

  1. Chancery Records, 1852-1853, 1r (#31)
  2. Complete Records, 1852-1858, 1880-1884, 1r (#31)
  3. Journals, 1852-1884, 1r (#31)

Supreme Court

  1. Chancery Records, 1850-1851, 1r (#31)
  2. Complete Records, 1847-1858, 1r (#31)
  3. Journals, 1847-1877, 1r, (#31)

County Auditor

Coming soon!

County Home

  1. Registers, 1870-1979, 1r (#53)

County Recorder

  1. Cemetery Deed Records, 1872-1976, 1r (#51)
  2. Corporation Records, 1876-1903, 1r (#51)
  3. Deed Records, 1872-1885, 1896, 10r (#41-50)
  4. Index to Miscellaneous Records, n.d., 1r (#52)
  5. Index to Mortgage Records, 1847-1902, 2r (#31-32)
  6. Mortgage Records, 1847-1891, 10r (#32-41)
  7. Soldiers' Discharge Records, 1865-1945, 2r (#50-51)
  8. Soldiers' Grave Records, 1835-1976, 1r (#51)

Probate Court

  1. Account Records, 1858-1931, 17r (#95-102, 106-114)
  2. Administration and Executors' Dockets, 1882-1889, 1r (#56)
  3. Administration Dockets, 1847-1944, 1979-1980, 4r (#56, 127-129)
  4. Birth Records, 1867-1908; 1920-1921, 2r (#63-64)
  5. Birth Registrations and Corrections, 1941-1964 8r (#65-72)
  6. Bonds and Letters, 1886-1934, 2r (#104-105)
  7. Death Records, 1867-1908; 1920-1921, 2r (#63, 73)
  8. General Index, 1847-1917, 1r (#54)
  9. Guardians' Account Records, 1864-1921, 2r (#103, 127)
  10. Guardians' Dockets, 1874-1895, 1r (#56)
  11. Index to Naturalization Records, 1852-1904, 1r (#57)
  12. Inventory and Sale Bill Record, 1851-1931, 12r (#115-126)
  13. Marriage Records, 1847-1945, 16r (#74-79, 130-133, 139-144)
  14. Naturalization Records, 1884-1906, 1r (#58)
  15. Naturalization Records - Aliens, 1859-1884, 1r (#58)
  16. Naturalization Records - Declaration of Intention, 1852-1929, 1r (#57)
  17. Naturalization Records - Minors, 1859-1903, 1r (#58)
  18. Probate Journals, 1852-1853, 1858-1882, 1r (#59)
  19. Will Records, 1852-1910, 5r (#54-55, 60-62)

Municipalities

City of Napoleon

City Council

  1. Boards and Commissions, 2010-2011, 2013, 4r (#3, 8, 11, 13)
  2. Civil Service Commission Minutes, 2012-2013, 3r (#9-10, 12)
  3. Committee Minutes, 2007-2013, 5r (#2-3, 8, 10, 12)
  4. Minutes, 2007-2013, 4r (#1, 8, 10, 12)
  5. Records Retention Schedules through 2010, 1r (#6)
  6. Resolutions and Ordinances, 2007-2011, 2013, 5r (#4-5, 9, 11, 13)

Mayor

  1. Forest Hill and Glenwood Cemetery Lot Records, 1865-2010, 1r (#7)

Townships

Pleasant Township

Township Clerk

  1. Reports of Births and Deaths, 1886-1887, 1r (#1)

Damascus Township

  1. Book of Records, 1839-1859, 1r (#1)

School Districts

Napoleon-Union School District

Treasurer

  1. Enumeration of Unmarried Youth, 1885-1886, 1r (#1)

Other Resources

  • Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio. Deshler, Ohio: The Chapter, 1988-
  • Cemeteries in Milton Township, Wood County, Ohio...plus Angel Cemetery in Henry County. Bowling Green, OH: Wood County Chapter, OGS, [1987]

Updated: 06/05/2023 09:27AM