KENT COUNTY RECORDS BY TOWNSHIP
 
Ada || Algoma || Alpine || Bowne || Byron ||
Caledonia || Cannon || Cascade || Courtland ||
Gaines || Grand Rapids Twp || Grattan || Lowell ||
Nelson || Oakfield || Paris || Plainfield ||
Solon || Sparta || Spencer || Tyrone ||
Vergennes || Walker || Wyoming ||
 
    These early records are mostly other than cemetery records.  Such as voter registration, licensing for various functions, doctors records, court records, etc.
 

Location of Township Offices

Location of Township Libraries

Information on Old Land Descriptions

Ada Township
Ada Pioneer Association - Early History and Some Obituaries of Members
List of the Members of the  Ada Pioneer Association, 1892-1907
 
Algoma Township
Algoma Township History
 
Alpine Township
Alpine Center Cemetery Restoration, Layout and Lot Owners
History of the Alpine Grange, 1874-1988
Old Photo of the Alpine Grange Bowne Township
Index of Images for Bowne Center
 
Byron Township
Sketches of Pioneers 
Political Party Enrollment, 1912
History of Byron Center
Civil War Soldiers Buried in Byron Twp. Cemeteries
Early Township Officers
 
Caledonia Township
Early Photos of Caledonia Township
Postcards of the Caledonia Electric Dam
Postcards of Emmons Lake - Caledonia
 
Cannon Township
Cannon Township Register of Electors, 1858-1882,  
Cannon Township Vote Enrollment, 1906-1910
 
 Cascade Township
McCord's Station
Contributions From Cascade Historical Society
 
Courtland Township
1842 Tp. Election
1845-1869 Township Records
    a) 1845 Township Board Meeting
    b) 1846 Tp. Election
    c) 1866 List of District Path Masters (Highway Overseers)
    d) 1869 Tp. Election
Elected Tp. Officers, 1897-1911
Highway Overseers, 1895 - 1905
Township Library
School Board Officers, 1893-1896, 1903
Early Landowners (Unknown date)
1906 Road Enactment
Courtland Tp Death Record Index, 21 Sep 1908 - 18 Sep 1935
Courtland Tp. Death Certificates, 1910 - 1916, plus 1-1920, 1-1929 (missing link)
 
Gaines Township
Photo of Gaines United Brethren Church, 1903 (missing link)
 
Grand Rapids Township
Elected Officials, 1834 - 2001  
Township Complex Plans, 1929-2001
Township & County Officers, 1907
Township Officials, 1930-2001
WPA Land Assessments, 1939-1940
 
Grattan Township
Grattan Cemetery Lot Owners, 1909
Grattan Township Residents, 1910-1919
Grattan Township Burial Permits, 1926-1963
St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Parnell
Grattan Local Vital Records and Events, 1876-1884 (Neighbors)
Grattan Grange Officers, 1876-1884
 
Lowell Township
Lowell Township Births, 1877, 1880, 1889
Lowell Township Deaths, 1877, 1889
Lowell Township 1877 Military List
Lowell Township Jacob Bovee Dance List, 1880 or 1889
Lowell Township Dog Licenses, 1880 
McBride Cemetery Lot Owners, 1892-1916   
McBride Cemetery Map
Ministers of the Lowell Methodist Church to 1955 
RothCoon Cemetery Lot Owners, 1888-1913   
St. Mary's Parish History, 1878-1971
Merriman Cemetery Lot Owners 
Merriman Cemetery Map
Wright Cemetery Lot Owners 
Wright Cemetery Map
Lowell Chamber of Commerce
Index to 1931 History of Lowell
Pioneers of Lowell
 
Nelson Township
Nelson Township Mortgages, 1894-1903
Cedar Springs Deaths
 
Oakfield Township
Oakfield Center School - Class Photo 1925
Greene Elementary School - 1954 Class Photo
Greene Elementary School - 1955 Class Photo
Logging - Lincoln Lake
Oakfield Township Marriages
 
Paris Township
Kent Co. Poor Farm (a.k.a. Maple Grove)
Dillenback's History of Paris Township
 
Plainfield Township
Austerlitz Ladies Aid Society, 1894-1897
 
Solon Township
Solon Township Justice Docket, 1873-1904  
Solon Township Party Enrollment, 1906-1910   
Solon Township Voter Registration, 1875-1882
Solon Township Cemetery Lot Owners, 1905-1933
 
Sparta Township
Early Settlers Sparta Township
Lisbon Village
Lisbon - Newspaper article
Layout of Lisbon Cemetery
Lisbon Cemetery Lot Owners
Sparta Water Tank
Sparta Brick Yard
Sparta Field Day, 1923
Sparta High School
 
Spencer Township
1908 Harvard Baseball Team  
History of Lincoln Lake
 
Tyrone Township
Justice of the Peace Marriage Records, 1867-1931
1911 Kent City Fire
School District No. 1 School Census
 
Vergennes Township
Covered Bridge  
Early History, 1836-1838
Vergennes Twp Registered Voters, 1882-1918
 
Walker Township
Walker's History
 
Wyoming Township
Bigelow Field