Abstracts of over 600 wills for Vanderburgh County, Indiana, extracted by Mrs. Arthur C. Bitterman. Book A was typed by Mrs. James A. Gentry, book B typed by Mrs. Marvin J. Huff, and published as one by the Vanderburgh Chapter of the DAR. Book A primarily covers wills written or filed within the time period of 1823-1849 and book B includes the years of 1849-1873. In both cases there are wills that fall outside those dates.
These extractions are basic, including information such as the name, page of book, date of filing, family members mentioned, executor/administrator names, witness names, and the date of probate. You can access the full wills online only at Ancestry as part of their Indiana, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999 database, a subscription is required. They are also a part of FamilySearch collection titled Will and probate records, 1821-1929, and indexes, 1821-1986, but as of 2024 you would have to access them at your nearest FHC.
Table of Contents
Listings are generally alphabetical.
- Book A, 1823-1849, p. 1
- Book B, 1849-1873, p. 50
Book A Names
Ackerman, Hartman
Aichele, John M.
Alms, Henrich
Angermeyer, Henry
Anthony, Benjamin F.
Anthony, Capt. James W.
Ashford, Sally
Baker, Susanna
Barnard, Grace
Bassemeier, Casper
Battles, Mary
Bauer, John Jacob
Barnett, Thomas
Baumeier, John Christolph
Bayer, Jacob
Beck, Anthony
Becker, Catharina
Becker, Ludwig
Bellamy, Edward
Bennett, Robert
Bingham, W.
Bernhardt, Jeremias
Berendes, Wilhelm
Blackburn, Bryan or Bryson
Blythe, James E.
Boluss, Thomas, Sr.
Boyd, James
Breedencamp, Christian
Bredencamp, Heinrich
Breger, John
Brickley, Thomas
Broerr, Antin
Broomfield, Moses or David
Brose, Daniel
Buechele, Peter Johann
Bunge, Daniel
Burkhardt, George
Burns, Jesse
Byers, James Allen
Caldwell, Julia C.
Carlstedt, Frederick August
Cash, Arnold
Casset, Jean Joseph
Cawson, Esther Sarah
Cawson, James
Clauder, Johannes
Colvin, Giles
Combs, Richard B.
Conoway, Jacob
Cosby, Robert T.
Cowles, Thomas
Cupples, Samuel
Dunk, John
Dunk, Charles
Dunham, Horace
Douglass, John
Doenbusch, Charles
Duesner, Jacob
Earhart, George
Egler, John, Sr.
Elkins, Joshua
Ellermeyer, Charles H.
Engel, Wendell
Erskine, Andrew
Eiler, Henry
Evans, Robert Morgan
Farinbarger, Xavier
Farrell, Clementa Ann
Faulkner, David Evans
Fehrenbacher, Heironimus
Fickas, John
Fink, Jacob
Finnerin, Michael
Fischer, George
Fix, Jacob
Folmer, Andrew
Foster, Matthew W.
Foster, Nancy
Friedrich, Heinrich
Gantner, Clementz
Garrett, Mary
Gavisk, Michael
Gavitt, John S.
Geggus, John
Geisler, Jacob
Gelhaus, John
Gerard, Elmira
Gerhart, Sophy
Givens, Russell
Goehring, Conrad
Goestingsmier, Adolph
Goldsmith, Daniel F.
Gostingmeier, Frederick
Grabhorn, John Henrick
Greathouser, Elizabeth
Greathouse, William
Grebb, Carl
Creer, William C.
Gregg, Martha
Gresa, Wilhelm
Grimm, Peter
Groeninger, Andrew
Groll, William
Haak, John
Hahn, Christian
Hahne, Franz Johann Friedrich
Hampton, William
Hampton, David
Harmon, Henry
Harvey, Edward
Helmerich, Conrad
Hennings, John B.
Heyden, Charles
Heyden, Christolph
Hoffmann, Jacob
Hoke, Philipp H.
Holmes, John B.
Holt, Edwin
Holfhauer, Henry
Horn, John Milton
Hornbrook, Mary
Hornbrook, Saunders
Hornby, Sarah Kellaway
Huber, John
Imorde, Heinrich
Jackson, Jesse
James, John L.
Janz, John
Janz, Margaretha
Jewett, John B.
Joessingsmeier, Adolph
Jones, Catherine G.
Jones, Michael P.
Jones, Missouri A.
Jones, Wiliiam T. T.
Kafer, John
Kappler, Henry
Kazar, Nelson
Keats, Clarence G.
Kelly, Malachi
Kelsey, Hiram H.
Kelsey, Ambrose
Kelsey, Maria
Kern, Wendel
Kerth, Jacob
Kessler, Sebastion
Kieger, Andrew
Kightly, Francis
Kingsbury, Benjamin
Kissinger, Madalena
Klentwort, Andrew
Knight, Abram
Knight, Isaac
Kollenberg, Gottlieb
Kraengle, Francis
Krieg, Fidel
Kron, Henry
Kuenkel, Henry
Kummeryehr, Joseph
Kuntz, Adam
Laight, William E.
Lang, Simeon
Lewellen, Wiley
Lewis, James
Linck, Catherine
Linck, Francis
Linck, Francis A.
Lockhart, James
Long, Levi
Long, Reuben
Lose, William
Luttenbach, Michael Peter
Lunkenheimer, Frederick
Lynch, William
Maghee, John H.
Mahr, Joseph
Maidlow, Edmund
Maidlow, Edward
Martin, Adam
Mathes, Christian
Mayer, F. Johann
McAlpin, James
McAfee, Margaret
McCutcheon, William
McDowell, William A., M.D.
McMann, Patsey
McPherson, Joseph J.
Meni, Franklin
Meni, Theresia
Mentzer, Lewis
Mertins, Elizabeth
Metz, Jacob
Meyer, Frederick
Meyer, Wilhelm
Mills, Isaac R.
Miller, Henry
Mindon, Henry
Moehlencamp, Anton
Mohle, Frederick
Morenholz, Henry and Elisabeth
Muller, Maria F.
Multhaler, John
Neale, Mary
Negley, William P.
Neel, John B.
Neumeister, Edward
Newkirk, Garrett
Nolan, William J.
Onyett, John
Pabich, Mary
Pack, James
Pauli, Franz Henrich
Peck, William
Ploch, William
Poelhues, John B.
Raab, Frederick
Raaber, Jacob Frederick
Reilly, James
Reitz, Clemens
Rheinlander, Gottfried
Riehl, Ferdinand
Riggs, Polly
Ritter, John D.
Ritter, Philipp
Ritzel, Joseph
Robertson, James
Rocket, Sarah
Rockett, Susan
Roessler, John
Rossler, Barbara
Rogers, Randolph
Rohner, John
Roquet, James
Rubrecht, William
Runcie, Ann
Runge, Daniel
Salmen, Anthony
Sasse, Simon
Satterlee, Varner
Sauer, Christian
Saunders, Jeffrey
Scates, Joseph N.
Scates, Keron Huppuch
Schaefer, Benedict
Schaefer, Elizabeth, Mrs.
Schaefer, Henry
Schiller, David
Schlag, John
Schlotter, Margaret
Schnadel, Louis
Schmall, Martin
Schneider, Nicholas
Schroeder, Charles
Schuler, Anthony
Schulte, Frederick
Schwarz, Anna Maria
Schwarz, George
Seddelmeyer, Johan Heinrich
Senants, Joseph
Sharpe, Peter
Shelton, John
Sirkle, Andrew
Skelhorne, Thomas
Smith, Henry
Spindler, John Anthony
Spindler, Andrew
Stager, Anna
Staiger, Johann
Staser, Adam
Staser, Conrad
Steinhuhl, Herman
Steinmetz, Philipp
Stinchfield, Daniel
Stinson, James
Stinson, John Brazel
Stinson, Rachel
Stockwell, John M.
Stone, Henry B.
Strohm, Charles
Stroud, Joshua
Synott, William
Thayer, Ira
Thuere, Frederick
Treiser, Christian
Trufton, William
Trusler, George, Sr.
Uphouse, Bernard and Ann Maria
Vaughn, John
Voelker, John
Waggener, Frederick
Wahl, George Adams
Walsh, John
Warner, Alanson
Wiegand, Charles
Weiser, Vincenz
Welborn, James C.
Welta, John
Wheaten, William
White, Thomas J.
Wiggers, Gerhard
Wigginhaus, John Peter
Williams, Sherman
Witherspoon, James
Wolf, Catharine Barbara
Wolff, John
Wyatt, Jeremiah
Yokel, Reinhardt
Young, William
Book B Names
Abeler, Gerhard Heinerich
Ahlering, Henry
Aiken, David
Andrews, Edward
Anslinger, Joseph
Backhoff, Peter
Baker, Peter Casper
Bank, Frederick
Barchet, Martin
Becker, Henry
Bedford, David
Beren, Heinrich
Bergoldt, Louis
Begeman, Henry
Bernes, Garret
Bernhardt, William
Bluer, Lena Barbara
Boeke, Henry
Boller, Adam
Bonn, Anna
Boseker, Charles or Carl
Brenecke, Christian
Brink, Louisa
Brownlee, Robert
Brunner, Anna Maria
Brunner, John
Buechler, Peter
Buhler, Jacob
Carlile, James
Casset, Mary T.
Chapman, Archibald
Chisler, John
Clausheide, John F.
Comstock, John A.
Cooper, Rachael
Debeaver, Pierre Jean
Deifel, Leonhard
Delang, Constant
Denning, William
Denzer, Jacob
Deusner, Wilhemina
Devoss, Maria
Diefenbach, George P.
Diehl, Anna maria
Dinges, Herman Heinrich
Doenges, Jacob
Dorst, Gotleib
Doyle, James
Dunsaway, Thomas
Earl, John
Eberhardt, John
Ehrhardt, John
Eichenberg, George
ellis, August
Emge, George
Espenlaub, Margaret
Eurss, Frank
Ewing, Robert
Exe, Charles
Faas, Christian
Faas, Albert
Fairchild, Zerale
Fauquher, James
Fatherstone, William (Featherstone)
Feist, Ellen
Felker, John Henry
Feulner, Anna
Fischer, Louis
Fisher, William
Fitzwilliams, Patrick
Flanagan, John
Freppon, John
Fritz, Gebhardt
Fuchs, John Andreas
Fuhs, Adam
Furgus, Robert
Gavisk, Matthew
Gillett, (Abraham) Archippus
Gobel, Francisca
Goebel, Joseph
Gonterman, Rosena
Gordon, Eliza Ann
Grainger, Ira P.
Grammer, Amnda Irene
Graves, Michael
Greb, Margaret
Gruebel, Valentine
Grodhaus, Bernhard
Groeninger, Jacob
Grosse, John F. D.
Grossman, John J.
Hahn, Henry
Hanson, William
Harber, Thomas
Harmon, John
Harrison, Thomas R.
Harth, Leopold
Heidt, George, Sr.
Heilman, Enrst
Hein, Dietrich
Heinrichs, Henry
Heitzman, Anthony
Helfrich, Peter
Henn, Henry
Henn, John
Henson, John C.
Herbert, Andreas
Henrich, John
Hickey, Daniel
Hillyard, Alexander
Hinman, Deborah
Hinspeter, William, Sr.
Hoffman, Fidelia
Hopkins, Lorenzo
Hopkins, Mary
Hornby, Henry F.
Hornby, William
Hubert, Maria
Imbush, John H.
inkenbrandt, Geo. Michael
Jackson, Jesse
Jacobs, Henry
Jenkins, Richard
Johnson, John
Johnson, Morris S.
Johnson, William
Johnstone, John B.
Jones, James G.
Judkins, David
Kamp, Joseph
Keller, Louisa
Kennerly, Everton
Kercher, Valentine
Kerth, George
Kerth, John
Kerth, Thomas
Kessler, John
Kieger, Clara
Kirkpatrick, James R.
Klusman, William H.
Knetter, Franz
Knoll, Gottleib
Knowles, Charles
Koch, John
Kohl, Frederick
Korb, David
Korff, Karl Heinrich
Kretschmar, Charles G.
Kroener, Fred
Kryan, Dorothea
Kuehn, Sebastian
Laugel, John
Leenk, John J.
Leinfers, Henry
Lerche, William
Lewis, Octavia E.
Linck, Charles E.
Linck, Mary A.
Lintzenich, Christian
Lister, Samuel
Lister, Lavinia
Long, Jasper
Lowry, Sarah
Lutz, Anna Maria
Lynch, Bridget
Lynch, Matthew
Maasberg, August
Mansel, Samuel
Marconmeier, Alexander
Marischen, Joseph
Mathis, Havier
Matthews, Tiberius
Mayers, John G.
Matz, Michael
Maurons, Eliza A.
Medzker, George Adam
Mehn, Michael
Miller, Henry C.
Mille, Ludwig
Mills, Ann
Mingst, Ernst C.
Mochenheimer, Christoph
Moffett, James
McGlothlin, Hugh
McInnerney, John
McKnight, William
McNitt, Sarah
McManaman, John
Neale, James
Negele, Philip
Neithardt, Jacob
Neu, Henry
Newman, Joseph
Nichols, Rueben
Niebur, Maria
Nightingale, Elias F.
Norton, Eliza J.
Nunn, William
Nunn, William J.
Oeth, Nicholaus
Ohlinger, Christian
Olmsted, William
Osterman, Adam
Osterman, John
Parker, Alvale
Parker, Edward
Parker, Jane
Parrett, Martha
Peck, John
Powell, Mary
Pulaski, George
Ragur, Burket
Raleigh, Richard
Reck, Nicholas
Reis, Jacob
Reisinger, Ernst
Rettinger, Valentine
Rich, Stephen
Richardt, Henry
Richardson, John W.
Riggs, William
Ripelmeier, Fred M.
Rockenmeyer, John
Rodrian, Gabriel
Roeder, Phillip
Roth, John
Rothermand, Herman
Ruark, julia Ann
Sasse, Tobias
Saunders, Frederick
Scantlin, James, Sr.
Schaefer, August
Schauss, Jacob
Schellhase, Justua
Schickel, John
Schmidt, Andreas
Schuessler, John (Chisler)
Schmidt, Louis
Schmitt, John
Schmitt, Nicholas
Schmitz, Karl Wilhelm
Schneider, Jacob
Schneider, Valentine
Schoettlin, Gotthard
Schubert, John
Schultz, John George
Schutz, Harman H.
Sedling, Henry M.
Sharer, John
Shelton, George W.
Siegrist, Jacob
Smith, Andrew
Smith, Eliza
Spindler, John
Staiger, Elias
Steckler, Peter
Steil, Nicholas
Steinbridge, William M.
Stock, Henry
Strasser, Xavier
Stratton, John, Sr.
Stroud, Benjamin Franklin
Stroud, Joseph
Stroud, Nelson
Sublett, Emily
Sutton, William
Taylor, Rachel
Temme, Christian
Temme, Henry F.C.
Thompson, Samuel W.
Thompson, Samuel, M.D.
Trabis, Henry
Trazeses, Peter
Tzschoppe, John Gottlieb
Umbach, John Melchoir
Unger, Franz
Van Horn, Mary
Venneman, John G.
Venneman, Joseph
Warth, Thomas
Wayman, John
Weiss, Jacob Heinrich
Weitzel, Barbara
Welborn, William W.
Wernett, Henry
Westfall, Sarah
Wetzel, Frederick
Wetzel, Jacob
Wheeler, Joseph
Whetstone, Henry
Whitehead, John
Wigginhaus, Frederick W.
Will, Caspar
Willis, John
Wilson, Alexander
Wingert, Henry
Wolfseifer, Clemens
Wood, William E.
Work, Joseph
Wright, Elizabeth W.
Wund, Jacob
Yates, Thomas
Young, Elizabeth Ann
Zisch, John Henry
Ziss, Christian
Zwahlen, Christian