Welcome to Morrow County OhGenWeb
Morrow County OHGenWeb is a free genealogical and historical collection of information provided by volunteers. We hope you find helpful clues for your research of ancestors and relatives of Morrow county.
This Morrow County site is a proud part of the OHGenWeb and The USGenWeb Project.
Morrow County Was Established
Morrow is one of Ohio’s newest counties, having been formed February 24, 1848,
from parts of Richland, Knox, Marion, and Delaware counties.
Our new county then contained 258,560 acres of land, which were divided into sixteen townships and named for Jeremiah Morrow, a resident of Warren County and Governor of Ohio from 1822 to 1826.
Mount Gilead, the county seat, was laid out by Jacob Young on September 30, 1824, in what at the time was Marion County. Originally called Whetsom, the name of the village was changed to Mount Gilead in 1832 by the Ohio legislature; it was incorporated in 1839.
Research Resources
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- Important Addresses
- A bit of Morrow County history. Township names and map.
- County Cemeteries: Lists, Maps, Location Descriptions, and Surname Indices from the six Tombstone Inscription books
- Mt. Gilead Public Library – Genealogy Holdings
- Morrow County information at Family History Centers
- Other Useful Research Links
Finding and Sharing Information
- Research Requests
- Researcher Home Pages with Morrow County Connections
- Lookup Volunteers
- Surnames
- Researchers
- Queries
On Site Records
- Researcher Provided Information
- 1850 Morrow County Census
- 1895 Biographical History Index
- Class Members Mt. Gilead High School
- Reunions and Community News
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Crawford County Richland County Marion County Morrow County, Ohio Knox County Deleware County This OHGenWeb site has been provided by volunteers of the Morrow County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society since 1997.
The OHGenWeb volunteer co-ordinator for Morrow County is Ann Artrip This page was last updated June 2024