LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY LIBRARY
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P. O. Box 525
Versailles, Indiana 47042
812-689-3031
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Hours:
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Monday - Friday
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Membership Fees:
Life Membership $100
Annual Membership $10
Renewal $10
Renewals due by 1st of each new year.
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Library Use Fees:
Members Free
Non-Members $3 DailyEveryone pays copy fees.
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| RCHS needs your help!
We are endeavoring to compile a history of Ripley County WWII veterans.
For further information, or if you have any information or pictures of RC WWII Vets, please click the following link and help us with this project.
RC WWII Vets
To send us your information or pictures, please click one of the following links. The Word file can be filled out on your screen, saved, and mailed to us. The E-mail file can be completed online and emailed to us.
RC WWII Veterans Submission Form - Postal Mail
RC WWII Veterans Submission Form - Email
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RCHS is not legally liable or responsible for the content on non-RCHS websites that are linked to on these pages.
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Due to being very under-staffed at this time
Requests for information MUST BE MAILED to us! There is a $3.00 research fee, plus copy fees ($0.25 each, for first 4 sheets [except for the Toph Papers], and $0.10 for each additional sheet.) Send an extra $1.00 postage for more than 5 sheets of copies.
Questions mailed without the fee and an SASE will be answered with minimal information, but copies will not be sent until the fee is received.
This is a Non-Refundable fee....research does take time to do. Please include a large self addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) in your request.
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Effectively Tapping in to Local, County, State Historical Societies and Libraries by Barry J. Ewell is an excellant presentation for genealogists - both the newbies and experts! Companion article for the presentation.
These files are in PDF form. Get the latest Adobe Reader here
Ripley County Indiana History is $65.00 for Vol 1 (1818-1988) (Vol 2 has Sold Out) Please click here for more information or to purchase this book.
| Brown Township Tales by Alan Smith. This book may be purchased for $20.00 at the RCHS Archive building (by mail - $22.00) Click here for more information or to purchase this book |
| Ripley County, in Vintage Postcards by Alan Smith. This book may be purchased for $18.99 at the RCHS Archive building. Click here for more information or to purchase this book |
| Flat Rock Cemetery Index . We have the book for sale. Price is $5.00 per book,with a $1.00 postal charge. Please contact us for more information or to purchase this book. 2004 update sheet available for $1.00 and an SASE. |
| Cemetery Books: Brown Twp. Cemetery Index & Johnson Twp. Cemetery Index are still available. $10.00 each. Please contact us for more information or to purchase a book. |
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located in Versailles.
RIPLEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY library located in the old Versailles
Bank Building.
RIPLEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY museum located at the corner of Main
and Water Streets in Versailles.
Smith-Engel log cabin built about 1830 located behind museum. Built & owned by Jacob & Nancy Funkhouser
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Ride to the Oregon Territory with Joseph Willams
who was a 64 year old Ripley County preacher that wanted to preach to the
settlers out west in this new territory. Ride with the group he went with and experience life
as he tells it while enroute.
Courtesy of Margaruite Walker Click an icon at the bottom of the diary pages to move
forward-backward-home. A weathered stone marks the grave of the Rev. Joseph Williams, who died January 9, 1859 at 81 years of age.
The emblem of United Methodist ministers was placed there during the Bicentennial Year by the Ross' Run Chapter, DAR. An itinerant minister from 1805 to 1809,
Mr. Williams "located" when he married. But he continued in ministry, probably organizing a class meeting.
Photo by Ann Gibbs.
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Ripley County Genealogical Data LINKS
Here is where you will
find the link to the following, among other links:
Birth, Death and Cemetery Records
Marriages 1818-1880 - from the Violet Toph Papers
Ripley Obits
Ripley County townships maps
Ripley County Biographies
County Court Records on INSANITY....those committed to Central State in Indianapolis
More Ripley County genealogy data....
Links to the State Library...and more links to Indiana pages, and also many links to other genealogy pages!!
| Clink on Ripley County Genealogical Data LINKS to go to the Links page..... |
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Ripley County INGenWeb has genealogy information, and links to other sites that can help a genealogist in their research.
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| Some Ripley Trivia |
Morgan and his raiders entered Ripley County from Jennings County on Sunday, July 13, 1863. Their first
stop was at Rexville in Shelby township, where a general store was looted. From Rexville they
marched to Versailles where they were met at the new courthouse by a hurriedly summoned band of
the militia and citizens. The raiders seized the guns belonging to the militia and broke them against the
corner of the courthouse, which at that time was not completed. The Deputy County Treasurer, B.
F. Spencer, had buried the county funds for safety from the raiders. The treasurer's office was looted
and it is reported that several thousand dollars was taken by the raiders. Private citizens having funds or
valuable jewelry and silverware hid them in a safe place. Many housewives hung their jewelry in the
bean vines and other secret hiding places. Horses were hidden as well as possible in advance of the
raiders, as they constantly seized fresh horses, leaving worn out nags, occasionally, in their stead.
Housewives were ordered to prepare meals for the marauding cavalry and feed was appropriated
for their animals, all available supplies were used or carried away. The detachment, to be known
forever in American history as Morgan's Raiders, did not march in a compact body but followed a
general course in scattered units, the central force of about three thousand men, containing the
leaders--John Morgan, and his two lieutenants.
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