Allen County, Indiana Church Burial Records

Civil vital record registration was not required in Indiana until 1882, with numerous counties and communities not collecting the data consistently until sometime even later. Church burials records often are a worthwhile substitute for civil vital record registration. Margery Graham, library volunteer and Allen County Genealogical Society officer, has abstracted a number of Allen County, Indiana church burial registers from their earliest records through the 1880 time period as a type of death record substitute and to provide access to this valuable information.

Church burial records included in this database are:

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Fort Wayne, 1834, 1837-1849, 1853-1855, 1874-1885
Catholic Cemetery Burial Records before 1873, Fort Wayne
Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Marion Township, 1846-1885. (No deaths reported for 1862, 1866, and 1869.)
Martini Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne (now New Haven), 1854-1856, 1858-1864, 1866-1884, 1886
St. John's United Church of Christ, Fort Wayne, 1868-1885
St. Joseph Hessen Cassel Catholic Church, Marion Township, 1845-1873. (No entries for the years 1846-1849, 1851, 1853, 1859, 1860, 1866-1868, 1870, and 1871.)
St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church, New Haven, Jefferson Township, 1865-1869, 1875-1885

St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pleasant Township, 1858-1892
St. Mary's Catholic Church, Fort Wayne, 1850-1884
St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Arcola, 1873-1900
St. Paul's Catholic Church, Fort Wayne, 1866-1884
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, 1836-1885
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, St. Joseph Township, 1857-1885
Trinity English Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, 1846 - mid-1851 and 1868-1885
Trinity Episcopal Church, Fort Wayne, 1839, 1844-1851, 1855-1885
Trinity Suburban Evangelical Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, 1854-1885

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