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Listed below are publications about Clinton County and the corresponding volunteers who have offered to look up information about your ancestors.

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Publication	Volunteer E-Mail	Comments
Duplain Cemetery Duplain Township	Sharon Schulte or Bonnie Burkhardt
Elsie Village Cemetery Elsie, Duplain Township	Sharon Schulte or Bonnie Burkhardt
Eureka Cemetery Greenbush Township	Bonnie Burkhardt or Sharon Schulte	Clinton County Historical Society Published 1996
Maple Grove Cemetery Ovid, Michigan	Allen Martin or Sharon Schulte	Courtesy of the Elsie Historical Society
Mt. Rest Cemetery Burials St Johns, Michigan	Bonnie Burkhardt	Clinton County Historical Society Published 2000
Oak Ridge Cemetery Bengal Township	Bonnie Burkhardt
Riverside Cemetery Elsie, Duplain Township	Sharon Schulte or Bonnie Burkhardt	Courtesy of the Elsie Historical Society
South Ovid Cemetery Ovid Township	Bonnie Burkhardt
Union Home Cemetery Greenbush Township	Bonnie Burkhardt
Wacousta Cemetery Watertown Township	Bonnie Burkhardt	Published 2002

Publication	Volunteer E-Mail	Comments
1860 Census	Jeff Brodrick
1860 Census for Westphalia Township	Mary Buege
1864 Agricultural Census	Jeff Brodrick

Publication	Volunteer E-Mail	Comments
100th year of Most Holy Trinity Parish, Fowler, Michigan.	Mark Goerge
DeWitt Circuit Methodist Records	Wayne Summers	Includes DeWitt Methodist, Emanuel Methodist, Redeemer Methodist, and others from about 1860-present
Of Pilgrimage, Prayer, and Promise, a Story of St. Mary's Westphalia, 1836 to 1986	Mary Buege or Mike Voisin

Visit Michigan County Histories for online page images from these old publications:

• Portrait and Biographical Album of Clinton and Shiawassee Counties - Chapman Bros., 1891.
• Past and Present of Clinton County - Judge S. B. Daboll, The S.J. Clarke publishing Co., 1906.
• History of Shiawasse and Clinton Counties - D.W. Ensign & Co., 1880.

Publication	Volunteer E-Mail	Comments
Forgotten Communities of Central Michigan	Diana Carmack
History of Clinton County, Michigan, 1980	Diana Carmack or Cyndi Saxton Jorae
History of Shiawassee and Clinton Counties, Michigan (1880)	Barbara Lewis Gillon or Michael Peacock	This work is also available online: Online
Biographical and Sketches of Clinton County 1892	Michael Peacock
History of Bath Charter Township	Michael Peacock

Publication	Volunteer E-Mail	Comments
FOX family tree by Philip Fox of Minnesota	Mark Goerge	Includes many Clinton County residents
DEGURSE, PLOWMAN, AND REEB Family History	Nancy Plowman
Descendants of Matthew and Arabella (PIERCE) HUSTON of St. Johns	T. H. Roderick, Ph.D.	There are connections to families of Hicks (John the merchant of St. Johns) and Curtis. Matthew and Arabella were born in the early 1800s, migrating to Dewitt, and then St. Johns in the 1830s from Shelburne VT. They and some of their younger children are buried in Mt. Rest Cem., St. Johns. I'd be glad to look up or share info.
Descendents of Mathias Kramer of Westphalia Twp	Joseph B Miller	I have just privately published a book on the descendents of Mathias Kramer of Westphalia Twp. Although the book will not be made publicly available (no birthdates will be given for anyone born after 1920).
Pohl: From One Small Acorn Grows a Large Oak	Mike Voisin	A verbal Portrait of the Descendants of Johann Peter Pohl and Maria Catharina Hellenthal 1841-1992. Written by Allan R. Pohl, 1992.
SCHLICHT, SCHAFER, MARTIN, and FEDEWA family trees done by Sister Pauline Schafer	Mark Goerge
Ezra Thornton, his descendants and some of his ancestors	Barbara Lake Peters	Surnames include: Thornton, Plowman, Keller, Cronkite, Emmons, Grubaugh, Peters, Vrooman.

Publication	Volunteer E-Mail	Comments
Civil War Archives	Laurel Simon	They have extensive information on the personnel, officers, medals given to whom and when, and the battles fought. I have found many of my relatives, using this tool and then ordered their pension records, for $10 each from the federal government.
Service Records of the 8th MI Infantry	Mila Swartout-Powell	It lists those soldiers that were in the 8th MI Infantry. Looks like many are from Clinton County. It lists what their enlistment dates, Companies, rank, city or county that they enlisted out of, muster in and out dates and sometimes more.

Publication	Volunteer E-Mail	Comments
Clinton Co Farm Plat Map booklet ca.1961	Jim Shirey
Ovid Register Union	Allen Martin	Approx. Sep 1893-Jun 1967 (some missing for example Apr 1906-May 1909).  The more exact the date the better.
Untersuchungen zur Methode und Technik der deutschamerikanischen Wanderungsforschung	Mike Voisin	This 1939 work by Joseph Scheben, in German, discusses many of the early emigrants from the Eifel region in Germany to Westphalia Township, Clinton County, Michigan. It includes transcriptions of letters home.
Wir verlangen nicht mehr nach Deutschland: Auswandererbriefe und Dokumente der Sammlung Joseph Scheben (1825-1938).	Mike Voisin	This 2003 work by Jürgen Macha, et. al. is written in German. It contains over 400 letters transcribed by Joseph Scheben in the 1930s (i.e., the "Scheben Letters"). Emigrants from the German Eifel region during the 1800s wrote these letters back home to relatives and friends. Many letters are from those who immigrated to the Midwestern and Western United States. The book has an extensive index. There are separate indices of those who sent letters, those who received letters, and those mentioned in the letters. There is a location index that includes countries, states, counties, and towns. There is even a subject index where you can find all letters that mention a topic like agriculture, religion, clothes or food.
Clinton County Pioneer Society Records, 1873-1935	Bonnie Burkhardt	CD-ROM.

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