Probate Records 1861-1907, Cowlitz County

Compiled and indexed by Charlotte Tadlock Hagle
with assistance from Alice Collins Sanders, Kathy Jacobs Maruhn, and Helen Crissey Bacon
for Lower Columbia Genealogical Society, 1986

Probate Court Records Index
Surnames
A - E F - J K - O P - T U - Z

The following Cowlitz County, Washington, Probate Court books are included in this index:

01. Book CM	CM (1861 - 1872)
	Petitions for Letters of Administration, Testamentary, & Guardianship Accounts on Guardianships Applications Appointments Petitions for Various Court Orders Contested County Election An Assault and Battery Charge
02. Book AP	Probate Records (1862 - 1881)
03. Book B	Wills (1878 - 1890)
04. Book AA #1	Probate Fee Book (1879 - 1887)
	Papers filed and dates of probate documents
05. Book RP	Record of Petitions (1879 - 1889)
	Applications for Letters Testamentary/Administration Names of Heirs-at-law Descriptions of land to be sold at estate sales Accounts and claims against estates Guardianships Changes of administrators Various petitions for orders from the Court
06. Book A	Records of Letters Testamentary & Administrations (1879 - 1891)
	Legal appointments of Executors/Administrators Doctors & Attorneys [Un-indexed] Supplementary Death records Early Death Dates [Three pages of names and death dates extracted from the Probate Records]
07. Book C	Records of Application (1889 - 1891)
08. Book RB	Records of Bonds (1879 - 1891)
09. Book RP2	Record of Petitions (1894 - 1907)
10. Book FR	Final Records (Jul 1872 - Dec 1893)