Sandusky County

Established: February 12, 1820
County Seat: Fremont
Map of Sandusky County Townships

Click townships in orange to be directed to our newspaper holdings

  • Ballville Township
  • Black Swamp
  • Bridgeford
  • Burgamot
  • Burgoon
  • Clay
  • Clyde
  • Colby
  • Demass
  • Demassville
  • Erlin
  • Exeter
  • Faith
  • Fremont
  • Gibsonburg
  • Girton
  • Green Creek
  • Green Creek Mills
  • Green Creek Township
  • Greensburgh Cross Roads
  • Halena
  • Helena
  • Hessville
  • Jackson Township
  • Kingsway
  • Lelandville
  • Lindsey
  • Loos
  • Lower Sandusky (now Fremont)
  • Madison Township
  • Millersville
  • Muddy Creek
  • Rice Township
  • Riley Center
  • Riley Township
  • Rollersville
  • Sandusky Township
  • Scott Township
  • Squires
  • Sugar Creek
  • Teemes
  • Tinney
  • Townsend
  • Townsend Township
  • Vickery
  • Washington Township
  • West Fremont
  • West Townsend
  • Whitmore
  • Woodville Township
  • York Township

CAC Holdings

Board of Commissioners

  1. Commissioners' Journals, 1820-1959, 27r (#1-27)
  2. County Home Records, 1864-1891, 1r (#27)

Clerk of Courts

District Court

  1. Appearance Dockets, 1839-1857, 1r (#55)
  2. Complete Records, 1852-1856, 1r (#51)
  3. Jury and Witness Records/Bar Docket, 1838-1857, 1r (#55)

Supreme Court

  1. Appearance Dockets, 1838-1851, 1r (#55)
  2. Complete Records [1837-1852 on mf], 1823-1856, 2r (#50-51)
  3. Journal, 1823-1851, 1r (#55)
  4. Witness Record, 1838-1857, 1r (#55)

County Auditor

  1. Enumerations of Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Idiotic and Insane, 1902, 1r (#79)
  2. Enumerations of School Age Youth, 1844, 1846, 1848-1852, 1923-1932, 1943-1959, 1963, 2r (#79-80)
  3. Enumerations of Soldiers and Sailors, 1895, 1r (#80)

County Home

  1. Admittance Records, 1884-1901, 1918-1931, 1936-1944, 1r (#85)
  2. Burial Records, 1910, 1917-1925, 1939, 1r (#81)
  3. Certificates of Admission - Indigency, 1917, 1919-1929, 1933-1939, 1r (#86)
  4. Infirmary Registers, 1882-1936, 1941, 1r (#54)
  5. Statements of Facts, 1921-1927, 1930-1948, 2r (#85-86)

County Recorder

  1. Soldiers' Discharge Records, 1865-1937, 1945, 1947, 1r (#56)

Court of Common Pleas

Civil Division

  1. Chancery Records, 1845-1856, 2r (#52-53)
  2. Journals, 1820-1822, 1825-1856, 4r (#46-49)
  3. Quadrennial Enumerations, 1823-1879, 1r (#81)

Juvenile Court

  1. Mothers' Pension Records, 1914-1921, 1r (#87)
  2. Mothers' Pension Journal, 1914-1921, 1r (#87)

Probate Court

  1. Administrative Dockets, 1820-1842, 1r (#37)
  2. Birth Records, 1867-1909, 2r (#57-58)
  3. Death Records, 1867-1909, 2r (#57-58)
  4. Final Records, 1852-1910, 9r (#28-36)
  5. Index to Will Records, 1836-1852, 1r (#65)
  6. Marriage License Applications, 1838-1842, 1852-1865, 1r (#62)
  7. Marriage Records/Marriage Returns, 1820-1946, 13r (#60-65, 72-78)
  8. Naturalization Papers - Declaration of Intention, 1830-1863, 1872,1919, 3r (#82-84)
  9. Naturalization Records, 1850-1906, 3r (#43-45)
  10. Naturalization Records - Abstract and Index, n.d., 1r (#59)
  11. Naturalization Records - Declaration of Aliens, 1859-1906, 2r (#38-39)
  12. Statement of Births and Deaths, 1891, 1r (#81)
  13. Will Records, 1836-1915, 7r (#65-71)

Municipalities

Woodville Township

Township Trustees

  1. Minutes, 1856-1900; 1910-1942, 1r (#1)
  2. Burial Register, 1906-1936, 1r (#2)

Board of Education

  1. Enumerations of School Age Youth, 1887-1890, 1r (#2)

Woodville Cemetery Association

  1. Minutes and Lot Owners, 1849-1906, 1r (#2)
  2. Lot Owners, 1899-1904, 1r (#2)
    1. Deaths for 1899-1901; 1904 included
  3. Lot Owners, 1903-1924; 1906-1908; 1906-1909; 1906-1925; 1909-1936, 1r (#2)

Village Clerk

  1. Physicians' Birth Records, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1918, 1920-1936, 1/4cf/2r (#1-2)

Village Council

  1. Minutes, 1884-1983, 3r (#4-6)
  2. Ordinances, 1895-1951, 2r (#3-4)

Townships

Fremont Township

Board of Education

  1. Class Register, 1849-1852, 1r (#1)

Other Resources

  • Index to Sandusky County Marriage Records, 1820-1894
  • Cemeteries in Sandusky, County, Ohio. CAC OG F497.S2C45...
  • Ohio Veteran's Home Death Records, January 3, 1889, through December 31, 1983Sandusky, Ohio : Erie County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, 1984. pOG 3071
  • Minderman, Edith Johnson. Ottawa, Sandusky, and Seneca Counties, Ohio, Newspaper Obituary Abstracts, 1836-1870. Ft. Wayne, IN: M.B. Clegg, 1985. CAC OG F497.A18M55
  • Brinkmeier, Hermina. Sandusky County Infirmary, 1880-1940: Persons Admitted. [Dayton, Ohio: H. Brinkmeier], c1994 CAC ficheset 20
  • Manion, Richard L. Sandusky County, Ohio Civil War Soldiers. Fremont, Ohio: Sandusky County Kin Hunters, 1992 CAC OG F497.S2 M355
  • Sandusky County, Ohio Index to Wills, Estates, and Guardianships, 1820-1900. Fremont, Ohio: Sandusky County Kin Hunters, 1991 CAC OG F497.S251 1991

Updated: 06/05/2023 09:27AM