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Adoptions

• Misc. Adoptions
• Marie Ackerman Adoption, 1897
•   Early Richland Co. Adoption Records (see Pastfinder 18/3 at Richland Co. Gen. Society website)

Attachment Notices

• W.L. DAY vs. Jacob SEIF & R.E. COOK
• Laura KELLER vs. John HAGERTY

Bastardy Claims

•   Anna Harter vs. Clifford Mitchell

• Anonymous Girl vs. Grant Stull
• Mary Epley vs. Woods Mitchell
• Cora J. Gilkinson vs. William F. Crosier
• Jennie Hollenbaugh vs. Will Dick
•   Altie Snavely vs. Aaron Zody
• Rachel Ann McGarvey vs. Homer Dennis

• Hulda Offnear vs. Charles Ferguson

• Flora Wingert vs. Cornelius Valentine

• Dora Belle Walker vs. Carl McGee

• Harriet A. Barr vs. Chester E. Walker

•   Lily M. Montis vs. Rudolph Winsky

• The bastardy case of Jessie Adams vs. John Bisel on transcript from the docket of 'Squire J.R. Richardson, has been filed in common pleas court.  Miss Adams who claims that she was 15 years old last December, charged Bisel with being the father of her unborn child.  At the hearing before the 'Squire Bisel was bound over to common pleas court in the sum of $300.  [Mansfield News:  16 August 1901, Vol. 17, No. 142]

• Elizabeth Dinges, by her attorney, M. May, has begun bastardy proceedings in common pleas court against William Foss.  The case was originally brought in Squire Richardson's court.  [Semi-Weekly News: 05 November 1897, Vol. 13, No. 89]

• Leona Layland vs. Harry Straub.  Bastardy.  [Semi-Weekly News: 03 December 1897, Vol. 13, No. 97]

Chattel Mortgages

• Jefferson Twp. Chattel Mortgage Docket: 15 May 1877 - 07 February 1887

Court Cases

• Mrs. Carrie Small vs. Heldman heirs
• Myers vs. Balliett, 1884. 
• Weldon vs. Johns, 1854
• Charges Against Mrs. Mary J. Leiter

Court Records

•   Common Pleas Docket Book Abstracts, 1837
• Common Pleas Records, 1813 - 1818  (see Pastfinder 19/3 and 19/4 at the Richland Co. Gen. Society website)
• Jefferson Twp. Civil Court Docket, 1860's - 1870's
• Supreme Court Records (Richland Co.), September Term 1840 - 1842
•  Supreme Court Records Richland Co., Vol. 2, Sept. Term, 15 Sept., 1832  (see Pastfinder 18/4 & 19/1 at Richland Co. Gen. Society website)
• Jefferson Twp. Civil Docket, 16 November 1863 - 31 May 1884

Foreclosures

• Foreclosures, 1901

Fornication

• Johanna Keigar (aka:  Josie Dorance) & Eli Crouse

Guardianships

• Guardianships, 1883 - Select Records
• Guardianships, 1884 - Select Records
• Guardianships, 1901 - Select Records
•   Early Richland County Guardianships, A-C  (external site)
•   Early Richland County Guardianships, C-Y  (external site)
• Wednesday.  Eliza J. Kennedy this forenoon made application in Probate Court for the appointment of a guardian for Matilda Robbins, an alleged imbecile.  The hearing has been set for October 3rd.  [Richland Shield & Banner:  03 October 1891, Vol. LXXIV, No. 19]

Indentures

• Indenture of Willie Leahman, 1904

Jail Sentences

• RYAN / ECKER / SEVERNS

Legal Notices

• Legal Notices, 1921 - Excerpts

Paternity Cases

• Edith LORO vs. Walter FRANK

Sheriff's Sales

• Charles T. Sherman vs. Anson C. Hammond and Theophilus Fulton
• City of Mansfield vs. John SHERMAN & Henry C. HEDGES
• Jesse Guinn & Nancy Guinn vs. Rebecca Mullen

Other

• Allen Shumaker bound over to Probate Court on charge of stealing a wheel, 1902
• Jefferson Township Criminal Docket, 1/12/1863 - 11/12/1897
• Mifflin Township Criminal Docket: 1/1/1849 - 11/26/1891
•  Common Pleas Records, May - October, 1817 Term  (on-line at the Richland County Genealogical Society's website -- visit:   Pastfinder2001-Issue1/Binder1.pdf  (external link)
• Three Estray Records, 1860
• Jefferson Township Civil Action Docket, 20 June 1870 - 25 January 1879

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Other information ...

• "Lost.  Our book containing a record of pension and bounty cases, has been mislaid or lost.  Any person giving information leading to its recovery, to either the undersigned or to S.F. Stambaugh, will be liberally rewarded.  -- S.S. Bloom."  [Shelby Independent News: 23 July 1874, Vol. 6, No. 39]

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