LaGrange County Records of 
Old Settler's Meetings
Index

    LaGrange County valued their early settlers, conducting yearly meetings honoring those that 
helped to settle the area as well as those that stayed to help the area grow and develop. Barbara Henderson has found two sources of records from these meetings and has been extracting the information contained in them to share with her fellow researchers.

    The first records that she found and wanted to have posted to preserve comes from a book of handwritten accounts of the meetings. She tells me that the handwriting is fading,  in many  places hard to read and there are loose pages making some of the dates hard to be sure of. The information it contains - names date and place of birth and when they came to LaGrange County  and on some pages the dates old settlers that died that year, make it an important reference for genealogists. Thanks to Barbara for all her work in deciphering this to help preserve the information it contains for LaGrange researchers! 

    The second source of  records of the Old Settlers' Meetings come from the  local newspaper of the time, the LaGrange Standard. Barbara Henderson, after transcribing all that could be read of the handwritten record, was kind enough to go looking for more of their meetings and found them published in the newspaper. 

     Links to the information that Barbara has gathered is posted below with a notation of which source the information is from. Those without links will be posted as I get them coded. A BIG 
thanks to Barbara for taking the time to share all of this with us!