Worth County IAGenWeb

Archives of What's New

• December 2022

• Necrology for 1947 (those who died within the previous year)

• November 2022

• 500 Portraits of Worth County residents in 1913

• October 2022

• 1910 Business Directory for Worth County
• Towns - Past & Present for Worth County
  

• August 2022

• 1864 Map of Worth County

• July 2022

• 1885 Iowa Census - Index to Danville Township

• April 2022

• 1885 Iowa Census - Index to Brookfield Township

• March 2022

• 1885 Iowa Census - Index to Bristol Township

• February 2022

• 1885 Iowa Census - Index to Barton Township

• October 2021

• Iowa Representative of Worth County - linked to their biographies and photos

• September 2021

• St. Patrick Cemetery Burials

• July 2021

• 1934 Country School Report Card & 1942 Worth County Diploma

• June 2021

• Worth County Death Records Index 1919 - 1939

• March 2021

• Chapel Hill Cemetery burials and Concordia Cemetery burials

• February 2021

• WWI Casualty list, and updated casualty lists from WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War to include birth and death dates

• January 2021

• Surname Index to gravestone photos from 24 cemeteries in Worth County

• December 2020

• Graduates of Fertile High School for 1914, 1928-1929, 1945-1948, 1950-1951, 1953-1954, 1956-1957, 1959-1960 (plus photos of the classes of 1954 & 1959)
• Graduates of Northwood High School for 1911, 1913, 1941 & 1943

• October 2020

• 1930 Map of Worth County
• Elk Creek Cemetery burial listings

• August 2020

• 1883 Pensioners from the Civil War

• June 2020

• 1875 Map of Worth County
• 1913 Map of Worth County & Township Maps
  

• April 2020

• Early Postal History, Biography of Civil War Veteran, John Towne.  Donated by Carl Ingwalson
• Early Postal History, 1889 - 1923.  Donated by Lynn McCleary

• June 2019

  • 3 obituaries were added to the Worth County IAGenWeb Board. (Halvorson, Myli, Curtis)

• April & May 2019

  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board. (Gesme, Rinden, Hagen, Adams, Harmon)
  • 2 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board. (McHarness, Lemon)
  • Under Photos posted 4 more postcards from an old postcard collection.

   

• March 2019

  • 2 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Rierson, Singelstad)
  • 10 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Hewitt, Dwelle, Sabin, Westfall, Willing, Remore, Hanson, Brown, Eckert, Emery)
  • Under Photos posted 4 more postcards from an old postcard collection

   

• February 2019

  • 4 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Yezek, Groe, Haugo, Bednar)
  • 6 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Vold, Turvold)
  • Under Photos posted 4 postcards from an old postcard collection.

   

• January 2019

  • 3 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Hambly, Dolloff)
  • 6 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Rustad, Mellem, Wroten, Stove, Ofthus, Pangburn, Wroten)
  • Added 44 biographies to the Worth County Bios Board from the 1907 book "The Semi-Centennial Souvenir of Nothwood, Iowa.

   

• December 2018

  • 2 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Cook, Petersburg)

   

• November 2018

  • 14 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Johnson, Whitcomb, Christianson, Gilpin, Haugen, Hunter, Lamb, Thorson, Dwelle, Toye, Finch)
  • 4 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Marpe, Pangburn, Jones, Horton)

   

• October 2018

  • 10 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Low, Olson, Gray, Madson, Simmonds, Gullickson, Johnson, Page, Holland)

   

• September 2018

  • Added online chapter I of the 1918 history book History of Worth County. This completes putting online the the Worth County portion of this book.
  • 2 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Backhaus, Halverson)

   

• August 2018

  • Added online, chapters II, III & IV of the 1918 history book History of Worth County
  • 4 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Anderson, Fredrickson, Hauge, Anderson)

   

• July 2018

  • Added data to the 1930 census for Union Township
  • Added online, chapters XI and XIII of the 1918 history book History of Worth County
  • 7 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Abrahamson, Bendickson, Hogen, Kingston, Hyerdahl, Gangstad, Swartwood)

   

• June 2018

  • Added data to the 1930 census for Brookfield, Danville, Grove, Hartland, and Silver Lake Townships.
  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Schultz, Chapin, Olson, Zobel, Perkins, Wirtjes)

   

• May 2018

  • Added data to the 1930 census for Barton Township
  • 7 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Halverson, Flatness, Ritzert, Anderson, Ouverson, Midlang, Barkema)

   

• April 2018

  • 4 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Lucken, Clark, Johanns, Julson)

   

• March 2018

  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Bachtle, Novitski, Lucken, Olson, Hanson, Schulte)

   

• February 2018

  • 10 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Bruan, Feley, Waage, Ouverson, Cooper, Springer, Carleton, Nesset, Lovik, Van Sabben)

   

• January 2018

  • 12 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Vorland, Whisler, Fretty, Alne, Holstad, Balfe, Abrahams, Schmidthuber, Bryant, Hengested, Bly)

  (missing August 2016 - December 2017)

• July 2016

  • 15 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Kuntz, Walk, Bork, Bowers, Wahl, Schultz, Gasteiger, Sanderson, Schmidt, Christians, Kruger, Buechele, Dalluge, Hackbart)
  • Updated cemetery data for London-Deer Creek Cemetery

   

• June 2016

  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Brechule, White, Bork, Trettin, Venechuk, Bruesewitz)
  • Added a photo of Beaver Creek Lutheran Cemetery
  • Added a photo of Concordia Lutheran Cemetery

   

• May 2016

  • Added the 1940 census data for Danville Township
  • 3 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Stock, Erickson, Erdmann)

   

• April 2016

  • 3 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Harmon, Arrett, Haugebak)

   

• March 2016

  • 9 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Overjorde, Ringham, Littlefield, Eckert, Thompson, Butler, Herom, Savre, Beckett)
  • 3 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Nelson, Reeder, Hillman)

   

• February 2016

  • 5 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Low, Berge, Wild, Westrum, Troe)

   

• December 2015 & January 2016

  • 4 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Adams, Johnson, Sanderson, Torgerson).
  • Added the 1940 census data for Barton township

   

• November 2015

  • 7 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Sawin, Crom, Kesler, Walswick, Rauen, Bowers, Anderson, Godfrey

   

• October 2015

  • 8 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Sawin, Crom, Kesler, Walswick, Rauen, Bowers, Anderson, Godfrey )

   

• September 2015

  • 4 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Saltou, Erickson, Schaub, Rosenberg)
  • 6 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Lund, Tenold, Bolton, Kepler, Forbes, Iverson).

   

• August 2015

  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Trettin, Estes, Braun, Koehler, Brevig, Miner)
  • 3 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Dwelle, Egbert, Lee).

   

• July 2015

  • 7 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Walk, Scott, Low, Sawin, Kochevar, Runyon, Jensen).
  • Added the 1940 census data for Brookfield township

  (missing December 2012 - June 2015)

• October & November 2012

  • 17 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board

   

• September 2012

  • 4 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board

   

• August 2012

  • 15 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board

   

• July 2012

  • 16 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board

   

• June 2012

  • 16 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board

   

• May 2012

  • 19 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board

   

• April 2012

  • Added 1910 census data for Lincoln Township
  • 55 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board
  • Added a photo to Clippings and Photos; Bliss Swensrud cuttng oats

   

• March 2012

  • Added 1910 census data for the town of Manly
  • 35 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board

   

• February 2012

  • Added 1910 census data for Deer Creek Township
  • 27 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board

   

• January 2012

  • Added 1910 census data for Northwood
  • Added a clipping to Clippings and Photos; Horrible Tragedy at Deer Creek
  • 7 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Kruger, Hulshizer, May, Glassel, Hackbart, Petznick,Brevig)

   

• December 2011

  • Updated burial data for Brush Point Cemetery
  • 7 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Krueger, Bork, McNally, Kuntz, Fonda, Follmuth)

   

• November 2011

  • Added 1910 census data for Hartland Township
  • 10 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Haes, Forbes, Brenden, Perry, Kuntz, Dalluge, Petznick)

   

• October 2011

  • 3 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Huebner, DuShane, Borchardt).

   

• September 2011

  • Added 1910 census data for the town of Kensett
  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Byington, Kaasa, Hackbart, Schmidt, Ingamells, & Kirchgatter)

   

• August 2011

  • Added 1910 census data for Silver Lake township
  • 16 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Johnson, Crooks, Dybvad, Voldahl, Vikturek, Lilljedahl, Leverson, Hartman, Myli, Rohlfsen, Hyde, Lutz, Rosssiter, Blatttspieler, Schutz)

   

• July 2011

  • Added 1910 census data for Grove Township and Brookfield townships
  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Luckason, Bublitz, Nicholson, Navratil, Borchardt)

   

• June 2011

  • Added 1910 census data for Danville township

  (missing May 2006 - May 2011)

• April 2006:

  • 8 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Hagen, Pixley, Helgeland, Gullickson, Kuehn, Diedrich, Gunderson, Butler).
  • Added the 1880 census for Northwood Township

   

• March 2006:

  • 9 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Hall, Charlson, Bailey, Rye, Hogan, Oswald, Bartz, Carnes, Newberry).
  • Added the 1880 census for Bristol township
  • Added the 1880 census for Brookfield township
  • Added the 1880 census for the town of Northwood
  • 21 Biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board
  • 2 Biographies for Henry and August Doebel were added to Worth County Bios Board

   

• February 2006:

  • 5 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Smith, Hennigar, Thompson, Lovik, Rupert).
  • Added the 1880 census for Hartland township
  • Addional records were added to Elk Creek Cemetery
  • 16 Biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board (Wright, Smith, Walker, Perry, McKercher, Dwelle, Cleophas, Simmonds, Carter, Mellem, Towne, Turner, Wardall Perkins, Butler)
  • 15 Biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board

   

• January 2006:

  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Kruse, Pery, Methus, johnson, Brunsvold, Nicholson).
  • Added the 1880 census for Silver Lake township
  • Added the 1880 census for Danville township
  • 2 Biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board (J. F. Rhodes and H. V. Dwelle)
  • 31 Biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board

   

• December 2005:

  • 8 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Ouverson, Wright, Gentz, Mollehauer, Stromley, Grosland, McIntire, Hargrave).
  • Added the 1880 census for Fertile township

   

• November 2005:

  • 17 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Jennings, Henning, Dutton, Swartwood, Orpen, Rinden, Thoen, Hanson, Christianson, Chapin, Ruffridge, Millis, Wyborny, Tyrrell, Nack and Bilton).
  • WPA Cemetery data were added for Manly Cemetery
  • WPA Cemetery data were added for Sacred Heart Cemetery
  • Addional records were added for Elk Creek Cemetery

   

• October 2005:

  • 15 Biographies were added to Worth County Biographies (Severson, Sanders, Rye, Roslien, Ringham, Pike, Levorson, Lee, Hjlmeland, Hengesteg, Hanson, Brattrud, Blackmore)
  • 23 Biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board (Trebilcock, Trostem, Wilcox, Halverson, Ellingson, Todd, Burdick, Olsen, Greeley, Cullen, Rye, Slattum, Johnson, Sevenson, Knutson, Espe, Eide, Trustem, Torgeson, Stokke, Gabriel, Tortenson).
  • 16 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Yezek, Hebel, Grosland, Amundson, Johnson, Godfrey, Borchart, Berge, Julson, Barnes, Fallgatter).
  • WPA Cemetery data were added for 7 Worth County Cemeteries (Brush Point, Elk Grove, Elk Creek, Elim, North Shell Rock, South Shell Rock, Grafton).

   

• September 2005:

  • 7 Biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board (Kirk, Fyrer, Jones, Egge, Blackmore, Sagen, Eschrich)
  • 4 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Groe, Garnas, Heiken, Capenter)

   

• August 2005:

  • 16 Biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board (Arnesen, Asbjormson, Balkan, Colbertson, Cooper, Halgormson, Harmon, Hill, Jorde, Lostenson, Oosen, Tenold, Walsvik).
  • 8 biographies were added to Worth County Bios Board (Fass, McEnelly, Johnson, Wescott, Rhodes, Mellem).
  • 9 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Gentz, Schachterle, Nelson, Edgar, Imlau, Reeder, Millard, Koschmeder, Buchanan, Midlang).

   

• July 2005:

  • 17 Biographies were added to Worth County Biographies (Johnson, Knowles, Knudson, Mellem, Reinsmoen, Rustad, Sage, Schmidt, Schultz, Sheimo, Tenold, Thompson, Toye, Wiley).
  • A 1917 newspaper article on a Halloween prank was added to History of Worth County.
  • 3 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Peterson, Henryson).

   

• June 2005:

  • Revised the 1930 census for Northwood
  • Revised the 1930 census for Manly
  • Revised the 1930 census for Union Township
  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Helgeland, Plath, Perry, Dobel, Gillihan, Nelson).
  • 4 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Paulson, Ramse, Knudson),
  • Biography was added for Charles Abraham
  • Biography was added for Benny Anderson
  • Biography was added for Thomas Bolton

   

• May 2005:

  • Revised the 1930 census for Silver Lake Township
  • Revised the 1930 census for Lincoln Township
  • 7 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Ashland, Abrahams, Grundmeier, Sheimo, Helgeson, Davis, James).
  • 2 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Glassel)

   

• April 2005:

  • Revised the 1930 census for Hanlontown
  • Revised the 1930 census for Grove Township
  • Revised he 1930 census for Hartland Township
  • 11 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Rademaker, Evans, ,Reyerson, Reinsmmoen, Winden, Thompson, Virchow, Berge, Knudtson and Holstad).
  • 6 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Frostem, Tortenson, Slossen, Rossiter & Benson)

   

• March 2005:

  • Added the 1930 census for the town of Fertile
  • Revised the 1930 census for Joice
  • Revised the 1930 census for Bristol Township
  • Revised the 1930 census for Danville Township
  • Revised the 1930 census for Deer Creek Township
  • Revised the 1930 census for Fertile Township
  • Revised the 1930 census for Grafton
  • 7 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Mellem, Horgen, Hotson, Sorenson, Wilmeth, Dimmel and VonHagen).
  • 4 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Koettengen, Hengesteg, Dahlseide & Anderson)

   

• February 2005:

  • Added the 1930 census for Union Township
  • Added the 1930 census for Silver Lake Township
  • Revised the 1930 census for Barton Township
  • Revised the 1930 census for Bristol Township
  • Revised the 1930 census for Brookfield Township
  • A list of Worth County Libraries
  • 6 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Calkins, Stumo, Brackey, Dietrich, Slattum and Flatness).

   

• January 2005:

  • The 1930 census for Manly
  • The 1930 census for Northwood
  • 9 obituaries were added to the Worth County Obits Board (Ingersoll,, Schutz, Nydegger, Slattum, Ott, Schmidt, Johnson, Schroeder and Sorbo).
  • 4 biographies were added to the Worth County Bios Board (Rud, Johnson, Dwelle & Urdahl)
  • Biography for Joseph H Yezek.