Guide to Appanoose County, Iowa ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
The County was named for Chief Appanoose. The County has Centerville as its seat and the County was created 1843. The County is located in the south central area of the state.
Established in 1843, Appanoose County was named for a chief of the Sac and the Fox Indian tribes that lead the peace party during the Black Hawk War. Appanoose means "A Chief When a Child."  During the first part of the 20th century, mining was a major factor in Appanoose. The county seat for Appanoose is Centerville.
Biographies from The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, are transcribed in Iowa Biographies Project.
Biographies from Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties, Iowa are transcribed in Iowa Biographies Project.
Camp of Israel, (later referred to as Zion's Camp).
Iowa Churches: A File at the Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.  This file consists of church histories, anniversary programs, and newspaper clippings. It is arranged by towns or by the name of the church.
Ministerial Biographies: A File in the Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. These films contain biographies, mainly of Methodist ministers.
The FamilySearch Catalog lists films of probate records. To find the records for this county, use the Place Search for Iowa - Appanoose - Probate records.
1848-1930 - List of books or films containing Probate information for Appanoose County from 1848 to 1930.
Local histories are available for Appanoose County, Iowa Genealogy. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Iowa Local Histories.
Rural School Memories, Appanoose County, Iowa. Information, memories and pictures contributed by many volunteers about the 140 schools in Appanoose County in 1912.
Shoal Creek Legends. The three volumes of Shoal Creek Legends were originally newspaper articles published in The Seymour Herald; printed and sold by the Seymour Community Club as fundraising projects. Maurice Stamps grew up around Shoal Creek in Franklin Township, Appanoose County, and served many years as a teacher and administrator in the Seymour Community Schools.
See it's collections and resources for local and family history research related to Appanoose County. The Genealogical Society of Appanoose County collection is housed at the Drake Public Library. The genealogy section features family histories, local plat maps, historic phone directories, school yearbooks from area schools, and miscellaneous histories of ghost towns. A microfilm reader is provided at the library to view the microfilm collection which includes: Centerville newspapers 1861-Present, Circuit Court Records, Miscellaneous Church Records, Appanoose County Probate Records, Census Records, Other Iowa Newspapers, Land Records, and Marriage Records.
See it's collections and resources for local and family history research related to Appanoose County.
See it's collections and resources for local and family history research.
State Historical Society of Iowa, archives, libraries and museum.
Obtained from the Norfolk and Southern Railroad in 1976 when the line was discontinued through Moravia, Iowa. Displays include a section car used on the rails in the early 1900s, an operational signal board for signaling train crews before modern radio communications were used, models of trains and railroads that once crossed Appanoose County and Moravia, and artifacts of local history providing a look at how people once lived in Moravia.
The Newspaper Directory on the Library of Congress' Chronicling America lists 21 newspapers which have been published in Appanoose County, Iowa. The site tells the years in which each newspaper was published, detailed information about each paper, and identifies the major libraries that have holdings of it and which issues each library holds. There were other newspapers (in Mystic and Cincinnati) published in Appanoose County, but no copies of them exist. Also, information on Appanoose County often appeared in newspapers in neighboring counties -- Wayne County, Davis County, Lucas County, Monroe County, Wapello County in Iowa; and Putnam County and Schuyler County in Missouri.
National Register of Historic Places in Appanoose County, Iowa.
↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Appanoose, Iowa," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appanoose_County,_Iowa.
↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Appanoose County, Iowa. Page 230-238 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002; Alice Eichholz, ed. Ancestry’s Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources, Third ed. (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004), 222-225.
↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Appanoose County, Iowa," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appanoose_County,_Iowa, accessed 22 November 2018.
↑ Lewis, S. Thompson. Biographical and Genealogical History of Appanoose and Monroe Counties, Iowa. New York Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. ;Online on the Internet Archive.
↑ with John and Jennie Ducey, Marcel Gerard, and John Kuchan; one microfil reel - 35 mm.
↑ The Iowa Press Association. Who's Who in Iowa, a Biographical Record of Iowa's Leaders in Business, Professional and Public Life. Des Moines, IA: Iowa Press Association, 1940; Transcriptions of the biographical sketches of Appanoose County's leaders included in this publication are online on the Appanoose County IAGenWeb page.
↑ Sargent, Diane. ;Children Buried in Iowa Cemeteries: Appanoose County. WorldCat 46801675 Anaheim, CA: Tiger Press, 199?
↑ Beck, Robert Knowlton; Report on the Rathbun Dam Centerville, IA: Daily Iowegian, 1954?
↑ Centerville, IA: Appanoose County Genealogical Society, 19??] Reprint of articles in the Progress Anniversary Edition of the Centerville Daily Iowegian, 10 January 1934.
↑ Heusinkveld, W. M.; Historical Sketches of Pioneer Days in Appanoose County, Iowa Centerville, IA: Bill Heusinkveld, 2004] Originally written as columns for the Centerville Daily Iowegian from July 2002 to July 2004.
↑ Taylor, L. L., Editor. Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa ~ Volume 1 Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913 Online in Google eBookstore. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;Online in Internet Archive.
↑ Taylor, L. L. Editor. Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa - Volume II Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company,m 1913] Online in&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;Google eBookstore. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;Online in Internet Archive.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;Biographies from Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa, transcribed in Iowa Biographies Project.
↑ Pioneer Roll of Honor published in the Daily Iowegian, 10 January 1934, and reprinted by the Appanoose County Genealogical Society.
↑ Johnson, Helen Taylor. Rural School Memories, Appanoose County, Iowa. Centerville, IA: Helen Taylor Johnson, 19??
↑ Stamps, Maurice. Shoal Creek Legends. Seymour, IA: Seymour Community Club, April 2007.
↑ The History of Appanoose County, Iowa Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878 Online in Internet Archive. Online in Google Books.
↑ Fitzpatrick, T. J.; The Place-Names of Appanoose County, Iowa published in American Speech, Volume 3, Number 1 (October, 1927), pp. 39-66, published by the Duke University Press. Reprinted by the Appanoose County Genealogical Society. Digitized by JSTOR which can be accessed through a participating library or institution.
↑ Tour of Iowa Counties: Appanoose County" published in the Daily StateRegister, February 10, 11 and 12, 1869. Online in America's GenealogyBank.
↑ National Park Service, "Auto Tour Route Maps" in Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail at http://www.nps.gov/mopi/planyourvisit/maps.htm (accessed 18 July 2011).
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