Shelby  County,  Indiana
Courthouse  Records

Wills

Some of the very earliest wills were recorded in the deed books in the Recorder's Office.  Our library has a will book compiled by Maurice Holmes, which includes abstracts of all Shelby County, Indiana, wills from 1822-1906.

Updated 07 December 2021

Testator/Testatrix	Date Recorded			Testator/Testatrix	Date Recorded
Ella C. Adams	1915			John G. Adams	1886
Benjamin Ainsley	1823			Henry D. Anderson	1916
Mahala Apple	1916			Joshua H. Arnold	1873
Elizabeth S.Atwood	1917			William Babb	1860*
John Baker	1862			Treacy A. Baker	1915
James Barmore	1860			Amanda Bennett	Nov 1911
Narcissus Bergen	1901			Elizabeth G. Billman	1912
Martin Bird	1914			George Birely	1883
Mary E. Blessing	1911			William Boggs	1836
Abraham Bollibaugh	1844			Daniel Bradley	1912
David Bradley	1843			Elizabeth Breedlove	1913
Henry Briggeman	1915			Jardin Brison	1917
Elizabeth Brown	1865			John H. Brown	1912
William W. Brown	1911			August Brummer	1916
Martin Buchert	1914			Rosella Roberts Burns	1911*
Chancy Butler	1840			Martha Elizabeth Byers	1916
James Campbell	1837*			Thomas B. Carey	1919
Alice C. Carson	1917			Cynthia E. Carter	1916
Walter A. Carter	1912			Wilford Carter	1858
Elijah Cartright	1849			John Caster	1883
Jonathan Casto	Aug 1841			Sarah E. Caudell	1916
Lida J. Caughey	1920*			Edward H. Chadwick	1913
Mary Chapman	1914			Amelia Cherry	Nov 1912
Eli Cherry	Oct 1911			James K. Cherry	1915
Sophia Cherry	1913			Armin T. Chueden	Jun 1911
John Clark	1829			Thomas Claton	1874
Landa H. Clayton	1919			Cornelia E. Coates	1916
Fred Coers	1920			Aaron Coffin	1847
Philip Colclasier	1876			Alonso Cole	1919
Elizabeth Colee	1916			Ralph Colescott	Nov 1876
Abigail Collins	1884			Anna Collins	1917
David Compton	Nov 1912			Carrie Conger	Feb 1912
Daniel Conner, Sr	1841			John B Conover	1859
David L. Conrey	1913			Caroline Conrey	1927
James Cooper	1896
George Copple	1913			John Corwin	1916
Henry S. Cory	1915			James A. Crisler	1919
Lewis Crisler	1843			Joseph Cummins	1894
Polly Cummins	1852			Richard Cummins	Mar 1838
James J. Curtis	1912			George W. Cuskaden	1914
George Debord	1840			Ernest Degelow	1912
Louis DeHoe	1916			Elizabeth Deitzer	1912
Mathias Deitzer	1872			Dora Denny	1915
John C. DePrez	1916			Minnie DePrez	1920
Andrew Derrickson	1876			Sarah C. Dippel	1917
Margaret Dodds	1916			Olive Dorsey	1917
Harry S. Downey	1916			Ithamar Drake	1835
Nancy Jane Drake	1916			Mary Duffy	1919
Joseph Dungan	1874			Sophia C. Durham	1914
Benjamin F. Ensley	1903			Henry M. Ensley	1913
William S. Ensley	1881			Andrew Ensminger	1867
Ballard Ensminger	1915			Joshua Ensminger	1851
Lester Ensminger	1915			St. Clair Ensminger	1914
William M. Ensminger	1914			John Henry Eschmeyer	1892
Dicey Estes	1916			Madison Estes	1916
Matilda Everhart	1912			James A. Favor	Mar 1913
Ann Fisher	1912			Francis Fisher	1912
Joseph Fisher	1918			Michael T. Fisher	1918
Sarah E. Fisher	1919			Anna L. Fix	1917
John M. French	1865			John Gahimer	1914
Anna Gannon	1875			Mary C. Gates	1917
Carrie Gatewood	1913			Lemuel S. Gatewood	1916
John R. Gere	1913			Elsa C. German	1915
Whalon Gibson	1866			Theora Gonce	Jan 1911
Mary Goodrich	1881			Emaline Goodwin	1916
Paul C. Gordon	1918			Lettie Graham	1892
William Green	1855
Alta Gregory	1919			Mary A. Hacker	1892
William Hacker	1891			John M. Haehl	Mar 1912
Elizabeth Hamilton	1916			Albert P. Harrell	1918
John Harrell	1917			Everett Haymond	1917
Thomas L. Haymond	1916			Thomas L. Haymond	1916
Fred Heddrick	1916			Mary Hendrickson	1916
John A. Henry	1913			John W. Henry	1916
Andrew Hensley	1842			Sarah Lucille Hering	1913*
John Higbee Fayette Co, Indiana	1923			George Hildebrand	1915
James Hildebrand	1844			Jacob Hill	1845
Margaret Hill	1915			Frances Hilligoss	1919
George Hilligoss	1913			George W. Hinds	1914
John Hines	1912			Thomas Hoban	1912
James Mortimer Hodges	1837			Julia A. Hogue	1917
Kendall M. Hord	1917			Frederick W. Horst	1920
Joseph Hough	1844			George W. House	1919
Mary Frances Houston	1915			Catharine Howery	1860
Katerine Hoyt	1913			Fountain Huffman	1883
Mary A. Huffman	1912			Armilda J. Hughbanks	1912
Mary Hughes	1916			Peter H. Imel	1918
Sarah J. Irish	1910			Lillian May Jackson	1916
Jeremiah James	1916			Hiram Jewett  (Decatur Co IN)	1891
Nelson Jewett  (Decatur Co IN)	1882			Orrin C. Jewett  (Decatur Co IN)	1903
Thomas Jinkins	1870			Catharine Johnson	1876
Norvan Johnson	1911			William Johnson  (Preston Co VA)	1832
				Thomas S. Johnston	1914
Harrison Jones	1918			Newton S. Jones	1915
William Jones	1860			Julius Joseph	1924
Peter G. Kamp	1915			Charlotte Kanopp / Knopp	1901
Elmira J. Keaten	1917			Benjamin Keaton	1888*
John Keever	1844			Elizabeth Keith	1914
Lucinda Kemp	1916			John Morgan Kennedy	1911
Frank Kent	1917			Jesse King	1846
Calvin Kinsley	1840			George Kinsley	1909
Frank Kirschbaum	1917			Mary Kitchel	1854
Piercy Kitchel	1846			Francis Marion Knight	1912
Fredrig Kolkmeier	1913			Jacob Kratzer	1861
Andrew Kuhn	1870			Mary C. Kuhn	1913
Kuhn wills, Hancock &	Henry Co			Margaret Kynes	1893
Joseph Lacy	1866*			Isaac Lamb	1870
Jehu John Lane	1873			Hamilton Lapham	1869
Isaac Larison	1913			Volney Larrison	1912
Robert W. Lavely	1914			Harry G. Law	1919
Caroline Lawrence	1916			Hiram Lee	1892
James Lee	1879			Ellen Leech	1916
Isaac Lemaster	1833			Henry Lemasters	1894
Jacob Lewis	1822			Rachel A. Lewis	1912
Josephine Louden	1912			William Louden	1843
Samuel C. Love	1911			Stephen D. Ludlow	1884
Rebecca Macy	1862
Dinah Major	1834			Fannie Major	1914
William S. Major	1917			Amanda J. Mayhew	1912
Ellen McBride	1919			John McCain	1914
John McCartney	1905			Lydia M. McCarty	1913
Albert McCrea	1911			Mary McDonald	1916
James McFadden	1915			Corrisanda McGuire	1911
Eliza Jane McKinney	1919			Melissa Means	1919
Jacob Medsker	1916			Emma Messick	1917
Edward Metzger	1915			Daniel Michael	1839
Elvira Midkiff	1913			Jennie S. Miller	1914
Noah Milleson	1915			Robert Minnis	Aug 1911
Joseph Mitchell	1912			Lucy Mitchell	1844
John Monroe  (Rush Co)	1847*
Henry Montgomery	1912			Matthew Montgomery	1913
Sidona Montgomery	Dec 1835			John Moore	Sep 1870
Nancy A. Moore	1914			William A. Moore	1892
William W. Moore	1913			Susannah Morgan	1912
Ann Pamelia Morris	1913			Rebecca A. Morrison	1895
Catharine Mow	1841			Nancy A. Mullen	1914
George S. Murphy	1916			John Murphy	1838
Martha Murphy	1898			Nancy Murphy	1911
Charles F. Muth	1898			Henry Nail	1827
Solomon Nave	1860			Emma L. Neligh	1915
Frances A. Newton	1902			Joseph P. Newton	1854
William Newton	1898			Aaron Nigh	1915
Elizabeth Nolan	1913			John J. Norvell	1919
George Nulliner	1874			Joseph Odell	1864
Nancy Odell	1911			George Oltman	1919
Eliza Jane Orr	1856
Jane Owen	1916			Hannah Palmerton	1873
Merib Maria Parker	1920			Jonathan Parkerson	1871
James W. Parkhurst	1915			John Parkinson	c1862
Moses Parkison	1874*			Edmond K. Parrish	1914
King Parish / Parrish	1889			William Patterson	1913
Joseph Paul	1916			Fannie J. Perkins	1915
Sarah E. Peterson	1914			Amos T. Phares	1922
Alice M. Phillips	1915			Nancy D. Pike	1866
Ann Margaret Pile	1918			David Pope	1917
Mary A. Pope	1916			Bennett Powell	1911
Emeline D. Powell	1886			Leonard Powell, Sr.	1891
Sarah J. Pritchard	1911			George Pulse	1870
Daniel F. Randolph	1938			Henrietta Rapp	1916
Joel Ray	1915			Thomas Ray	1830
Ephraim Redenbough	1912			George C. Reed	1874
Jacob Reed	1875			Martha J. Reese	1873
Fernandes Rhoades	Aug 1910			Lucy T. Ricketts	1919
Nathan Riggs	1883			John Robertson	1896
Newton D. Robins	1895			George Robinson	1835
William Rosenfeld	1911			Daniel Ross	1853
May S. Sargent	1917			Margaret Sartle	1915
Margaret R. Schneider	1913			Matthias Schoelch	1913
Robert C. Schoelch	1911			Jesse Scott	1918
Isaac Sexton	1845			Harriett Shaw	1923
James K. P. Shaw	1913			Jesse Shaw	1913
Harriet Major Sheldon	1915			Sarah J. Shore	1919
Alfred L. Shutt	1914			Henry Sims	1911
Viola Skillman	1918			Caleb Sleeth	1879
David Sleeth	1865			Ira R. Sleeth	1915
Kate Slusser	1916			Edward Small	1917
Daniel R. Smith	1914			Hezekiah Smith	1859*
Joel Smith	Jun 1870			John Smith	1913
Sophia Smith	1917			William Smith	1858
Daniel Snepp	1895			John Snepp	1875
Lewis Snepp	1897			John H. Snyder	1914
Laura Sparks	1917			Esther Spurlin	1882
Jesse Spurlin	1864			Mary St. John	1911
Samuel Stansifer	1915			Solomon Steward	1916
Elizabeth B. Stewart	1911			George P. Stewart	1916
Lydia Stewart	1917			George P. Stohry	1915
				Jeremiah Joseph Stillwell	1853
Cyrus Hale Stone	1833			Lemon M. Stratton	1916
Michael Streng	1917			Norman H. Strong	1915
Oliver Swain	Apr 1901			Joseph A. Talbert	1918
Virinda Talbert	1912			Mary A. Templeton	1915
William P. Terry	1913			Carey F. Thomas	1915
Margaret Thomas	1919			Oliver Morton Thompson	1913
Samuel M. Thompson	1914			Philip Timberlake	Aug 1848
Frank Timney	1917			Asa Toler	1839
Henry H. Torline	1915			Mary L. Treadway	1919
Elizabeth Trimble	1916			Abraham Trisler	1864
Rebecca Trisler	1882			Alfred S. Tucker	1891
Andrew J. Tucker	Apr 1911			William Tull	1915
Salathiel Valentine	Dec 1911			John Wesley Vanarsdall	1919
				Dorothy Vanpelt, Box 23	1854
Abel VanScyoc	1919			John A. Vernon	1913
Nathaniel Vice (Campbell Co KY)	1802*
Ruth Virgin	1876			Mary E. Waggoner	1916
Jesse C. Walker	1912			Barbara E. Warble	1919
Martin Warner	1872			Stephan B. Washburn	1911
Thomas Watson	1879			George P. Weaver	1814*
Horace Weaver	Jan 1902			George Weinantz	1919
Henry Weingarth	1920			Elizabeth Weintraut	Dec 1913
Robert S. and Eliza Wells	1913			Harry Whitcomb	1915
William T. White	1915			Annie M. Wilson	1915
Bennie F. Wilson	1915			David B. Wilson	1915
Isaac Wilson	1862
Elizabeth Witmer	Feb 1912			Elvira J. Wolf	1913
Mary A. Woodward	Apr 1911			George Woolley	1884
Thomas Wrenick	1916			Charles S. Wright	1918
Nancy H. Wright	1914			William W. Wright	1918
Jacob Yarling	1914			James Young, Sr	1829
John George Zeiss	Mar 1861			Elenor Zemer	1917
Henry Zemer	1916

* Date will was signed (i.e., testator still living)


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