CLOSED, 2023

LINCOLN HIGHWAY EAST
NEW HAVEN, INDIANA

BESANCONHISTORY.ORG

Portions of the former
Besancon Historical Society website
are hosted here,
for the benefit of researchers,
by the
Allen County Genealogical Society
of Indiana
acgsi.org

Cemetery

• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Cemetery grave photographs

  Church Records

• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church bench list, 1870-1871 (PDF)
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church confirmations, 1903-1923 (PDF)
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church first communion lists, 1903-1922 (PDF)
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church history (PDF)
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church pastors (PDF)
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church registration, 1868 (PDF)
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church window names (PDF)
  The second church was constructed around the first and dedicated in 1871.
  Parishoners donated a window and had their name put on it.

  Families

• Surnames and their villages of origin

  Maps

• Jefferson Twp., 1860 (PDF)
• Jefferson Twp., 1870s (PDF)
• Jefferson Twp., 1880 (PDF)
• Jefferson Twp., 1930s, North Half (PDF)
• Jefferson Twp., 1930s, South Half (PDF)
• Jefferson Twp., 1940s, North Half (PDF)
• Jefferson Twp., 1940s, South Half (PDF)

  Military

• Jefferson Twp., Allen Co., WWII veterans (PDF)
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church parishioners who served in the World Wars
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church WWI Draftees
• St. Louis Besancon Catholic Church WWII Army Enlistees

  Newspaper Excerpts

• Jefferson and Jackson Twp. excerpts from the Journal Gazette, 1905-1916

  Societies

• Besancon Historial Society History, 1992-2000
• French American Society

  Vital Records

• St. Louis Besancon Burials Found in Allen County Death Records (sel.)