Jefferson County, Ohio Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption! If you have a love for history, a desire to help others, and basic web-authoring skills, consider joining us! Get the details on our Volunteer Page. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] If hosting isn't for you, we can use your help in other ways. More information can be found on the Volunteer Page. Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! If you are interested in adding your families' information this website, Email US. We'll be happy to help your families' obituaries, news items and other historical data find a home here at Ohio Genealogy Trails, where it will remain free for all to view. The website has been reorganized. MAKE SURE AND REFRESH THE VARIOUS WEBPAGES TO SEE ALL THE LATEST DATA. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Founded in July 29, 1797 by proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair, six years before Ohio was granted statehood. It was named for Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, Secretary of State, and Vice President of the United States at the time of the County’s creation. Its county seat is Steubenville In 1786, the United States built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River. When the surveyors completed their task a few years later, the fort was abandoned. In the meantime, settlers had built homes around the fort; they named their settlement La Belle. When the County was created in 1797, La Belle was selected as the County seat. The town was subsequently renamed Steubenville, in honor of the abandoned fort. (source: wikipedia.org) Market Street in Steubenville Cities and Villages Steubenville * Toronto Adena * Amsterdam * Bergholz * Bloomingdale * Dillonvale * Empire * Irondale Mingo Junction * Mount Pleasant * New Alexandria * Rayland * Richmond * Smithfield Stratton * Tiltonsville * Wintersville * Yorkville Other Communities Brilliant * East Springfield * Greentown * Hammondsville * Hopewell * New Somerset Piney Fork * Rush Run * Weems * Wolf Run Townships Brush Creek * Cross Creek * Island Creek * Knox * Mount Pleasant Ross * Salem * Saline * Smithfield * Springfield * Steubenville * Warren * Wayne * Wells Online Data Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries and Death Notices School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: May 2013: Newspaper story re: MALEY and SHEETS Dec 2012: Rev. War soldiers who lived in Jefferson Co. SEARCH OUR SITES SUBMIT A TRANSCRIBED OBITUARY to US Join our Genealogy Trails Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Midwest States of : Ohio -- Kansas -- Indiana -- Iowa -- Missouri -- Kansas Illinois is covered under its original Illinois Trails List Adjacent Counties Columbiana County (north) Belmont County (south) Harrison County (southwest) Carroll County (northwest) Hancock County, WV (northeast) Brooke County, WV (east) Ohio County, WV (southeast) Ohio State Page Visit our National Site JOIN US! DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.