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Military Discharge Records
from
Lawrence County Ohio Recorder's Office
late 1864 to about 1900
Submitted by
Don Clark
The Lawrence County Recorders Office has several volumes of
recorded Military Discharges. These documents can tell you quite a
bit about an ancestor physically. Some of them include:
 | height |
| weight |
| hair |
| eye |
| skin color |
| identifying marks or defects
Some include age, birth date or place of birth, and others have
nothing much more than a name. |
In addition to the discharges recorded in these volumes there
are a few recorded in the ledgers located in the Recorders Office.
There is an index for these recorded discharges, you can check at
your local FHC, library, or archives for the microfilmed copy of
this ledger. There are copies of this microfilm at Briggs Lawrence
County Public Library, Hamner Room in Ironton, Ohio and OHS in
Columbus, Ohio and Alden Library in Athens, Ohio.
As you who have worked with microfilm know, some files are better
than others. Early last year I copied the information from that
index and have transcribed the whole book into a computer
database. The original index is arranged alphabetically by first
letter of the surname and then by volume and page numbers.
There are a total of 1,301 discharges recorded and indexed in this
volume. In some instances, there are more than one discharge
listed and those are listed as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. Some contained
additional info and I have tried to transcribe exactly as entered.
Each entry shows:
| volume number [with a D if it is recorded in a deed book] |
| page number |
| surname (first name, and any second name or other info
listed) |
There were words which were unreadable. If you have any
questions, please email Don Clark:
Lawcoloreman@aol.com.
Military Discharge Index Surnames A - K
Military Discharge Index Surnames L - Z |
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