COUNTY RECORDS

Resources for Purchase	Census	Miscellaneous
Birth/Marriage/Death	Land and Taxes	Family Histories
Obituaries	Schools	Area Histories
Cemeteries	Newspapers	Research Helps

Requests for information will be answered by the Hooker County Genealogical Society, PO Box 280, Mullen NE 69152-0280. Please send SASE and initial research fee of $4. A list of available documents and estimate of costs will be sent to you. A charge of $4/hr is made for lengthy searches and $1/page of photocopy you wish to purchase. Some booklets of Hooker County records are available for purchase. Membership in the Hooker County Genealogical Society is $3/yr and entitles you to quarterly newsletters, published queries, and your surnames listed in the newsletter.

Research files in Hooker County Genealogical Society Holdings include the following:

• Alphabetical List of Surnames in the Hooker Co. Genealogical Soc. Library 1991
  
• Alphabetical Surnames Index Card Files contain listing of records available for research
  
• Alphabetical Surnames Vertical Folders contain clippings from donated newspapers including birth and marriage announcements, obituaries and funeral cards, and other articles about individuals and families
  
• Ancestors Charts of Hooker County Genealogical Society Membership
  
• List of States and Counties being searched by members of Hooker County Genealogiical Society
  

Hooker County Genealogical Society Resources available for purchase

Send orders to Hooker County Genealogical Society, PO Box 280, Mullen NE 69152. Include $2 for postage and handling.

• Alphabetical List of Surnames, $3
• Land Patents, Hooker Co, NE - Book One (36 pp.), $3.50; Book Two, $2; Book Three, $2
  List includes page, name, number and type, date and time.
• Marks and Brands, Hooker Co, NE, $5
• Marriages 1890-1970, Hooker Co, NE - Book 1, $7; Book 2, $10
  Book 1 was prepared by the Hooker County Genealogical Society in 1988. Marriage licenses numbered 1-333 issued from December 1889 to August 1923 were transcribed as they appeared in the County records. Information includes marriage date, names, ages, birthplaces, residence, names of parents, officiant, and witnesses.
  Book 2 contains marriage licenses numbered 334-818 issued from October 1923 to December 1970. Starting in 1968 additional information includes whether living outside or inside city limits, education, occupation, marital status and number of marriages, birthplace of parents.
• Naturalization Records, Hooker Co, NE (9 pp.), $2
  DECLARATION OF INTENT & PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION FROM HOOKER COUNTY NE
  Prepared in 1981 by the Hooker County Genealogical Society. Index of Names and emigration information.
• School Census 1889-1900, Hooker Co, NE, $2.50
• School Attendance Registers 1900-1919, Hooker Co, NE (42 pp.), $4.50
  List includes name, age, sex, grade, term beginning and end dates, comments.
• 1900 Hooker County Federal Census List, $2.50
• 1910 Hooker County Federal Census List, $5
• Cedarview Cemetery Record 1904–2000, $10
  Book lists all marked or known graves alphabetized by surnames. Birth dates, death dates, lot location, parents and spouses are also given. A brief history, description of the lot numbering system, and a diagram of the cemetery layout is included.
• Dry Valley Cemetery Record, 75 cents
• Eclipse Cemetery Record, $1
• Long's Cemetery Record, 50 cents
• Virginia Cemetery Record, 60 cents


• The History of Hooker County 1889-2004 is available from Hooker Co. Historical Society, $60 + $5 S&H if mailed
  The Hooker County Historical Society compiled this book to preserve the history of Hooker County, South Cherry County and the surrounding area. There are pictures and stories describing the Sandhills communication and transportation, towns Hecla and Mullen, businesses, schools, churches, organizations, health and community services, recreation, armed forces, weather and natural disasters, cemeteries, and items of notoriety. Biographical sketches of families who have resided in Hooker County are in alphabetical order by surname, many including photographs. Poetry and artwork by local residents enhance the section title pages. Surname indexes are included.

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Birth Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• Listing of births in Hooker County 1919 to 1985 in booklet form and on computer disk. Includes parents and physicians.
  
• Delayed Birth Certificate Records (computer backup)
  
• Birth dates for Male Residents of Hooker Co. from Civilian Draft Registration 1917-1918
  
  
  

Marriage Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• Book I with Index 1889-Aug 1923 (Computer backup)
  
• Book II with Index Oct 1923-1970 (Computer backup)
  
  
  

Death Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• Listing of deaths 1919-1985 (Computer backup)
  
• Burial Transit Permits 1936-1982
  
• Funeral Record Book (Old records from a local mortitian)
  
  

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Obituaries in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• LUCILLE BOYER OBITUARY SCRAPBOOKS I, II, III with Index
  
• BESSIE BRADLEY OBITUARY SCRAPBOOKS I, II, III with Index
  
• EVELYN ELLIOTT OBITUARY SCRAPBOOK
  
• LISTING OF MARRIAGES AND OBITUARIES in Sara Ginkens’ Scrapbooks
  
• LUCILLE BARENT Scrapbooks and a box of obituaties, funeral folders, and local newspaper clippings.
  
  

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Cemetery Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• ARNOLD NE CEMETERY, Tombstone Readings
  
• ASHBY NE CEMETERY Listings
  
• BROWNLEE NE CEMETERY Listing (including Negro cemetery of DeWitty NE)
  
• CEDARVIEW CEMETERY RECORDS, Mullen NE 1904 to 2000 (Computer backup)
  
• DRY VALLEY CEMETERY RECORD (So. Cherry Co. NE)
  
• ECLIPSE CEMETERY RECORD (So. Hooker Co. NE)
  
• HYANNIS CEMETERY Book (Hyannis, Grant Co., NE)
  
• LONG CEMETERY RECORD (So. Cherry Co. NE)
  
• VIRGINIA CEMETERY RECORD (So. Cherry Co. NE)
  
• MILLER CEMETERY LISTING OF BURIALS 1890 - 1976 (McPherson Co. NE)
  
• SENECA CEMETERY RECORDS (Seneca, NE including JIMTOWN CEMETERY)
  
• HILLCREST CEMETERY RECORDS (Thedford, NE) 1994
  
• WHITMAN CEMETERY LISTING (Whitman, NE) also Survey or Curtis Cemetery
  
• Listing of Veterans Buried in Cemeteries in Hooker County NE
  
• Misc. Burials in South Cherry Co. & Grant Co. NE
  
• DOUGLAS County Nebraska CEMETERIES 1981
  
• OLD ELKHORN CEMETERY (Douglas Co. NE)
  
• CEMETERIES IN LANCASTER COUNTY, NE (City of Lincoln, WYUKA Part I A-K (Vol. 5)
  
• CEMETERIES IN LANCASTER COUNTY, NE (City of Lincoln, WYUKA Part II L-Z (Vol. 5)
  
• CEMETERIES IN LANCASTER COUNTY, NE (Northwest Quarter - Vol. III)
  
  

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Census Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• 1890 VETERAN’S CENSUS - Hooker County
  
• 1900 FEDERAL CENSUS Listing with Index - Hooker County, NE. (also Microfilm)
  
• 1910 FEDERAL CENSUS Listing with Index - Hooker County, NE. (also Microfilm)
  
• 1920 FEDERAL CENSUS Listing with Index - Hooker County, NE. (also Microfilm)
  
• 1930 FEDERAL CENSUS Listing with Index - Hooker County, NE. (Computer Disc)
  
  

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Land and Tax Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• LAND PATENTS - Book I with Index
  
• LAND PATENTS - Book II with Index
  
• LAND PATENTS - Book III with Index
  
• LAND PLAT BOOK ca. 1930
  
• INDEX TO DEEDS (as Grantor, Grantee) Book I 1888-1906
  
• LISTING OF 1901 CHATTEL MORTGAGES FILED AT Hooker Co. NE. Museum
  
• LAND SURVEY PLAT LISTINGS OF HOOKER COUNTY NE. Sept. 1899 with Index
  
• CHERRY COUNTY LAND ATLAS 1919
  
• INDEX TO 1919 CHERRY CO. ATLAS - by Wayne OSBORNE
  
• TAX LISTS 1887-1899
  
• TAX LISTS 1900-1902 (not typed)
  
  

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School Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• SCHOOL NOTICES (Co. Supt., Teachers etc. 1889-1890)
  
• SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RECORDS 1900-1919 & Supplement 1917-1921
  
• SCHOOL CENSUS - Van Deusen Rural School Dist #2 1929-1935
  
• SCHOOL CENSUS - Hooker Co. Dist #2 1968-1973
  
• "THE SANDHILLIZER" Mullen High School Yearbook dedicated by the class of 1918
  
• Mullen High School Alumni Book with brief bios of students 1916-1976 including index
  
• Index to Hooker County Alumni Book 1916-1984 lists names and year graduated; also addresses and parents' names 1977-1984
  
• Chadron State College Year Books 1970 & 1971
  
• CHADRON ASSUMPTION ACADEMY (H.S.) 1952 & 1953
  
• Brownell-Talbot School Alumni Assoc. Directory - Omaha, NE. 1982
  
• SPRING COMMENCEMENT BOOKLET - UNIVERSiTY OF NEBRASKA 1970
  
• CORNHUSKER - UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA ANNUAL BOOK 1952
  
• NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI DIRECTORY 1890 to 1984
  
• WAYNE STATE COLLEGE YEARBOOK 1954
  
  

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Newspaper Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• HOOKER COUNTY TRIBUNE - bound volumes 1947-2002 (except for year 1948)
  
• HOOKER COUNTY TRIBUNE - miscellaneous issues from 1902-1946; also 1948 not bound
  
• HOOKER COUNTY TRIBUNE & THOMAS CO HERALD CLIPPER 1938-1948 (except for year 1944) on loan from Hooker County Historical Society
  
• Contact Nebraska State Historical Society for Hooker County Tribune newspapers on microfilm.
  
• THOMAS COUNTY HERALD CLIPPER - 1910; 1938-39; 1968
  
• BLAINE COUNTY BOOSTER - 1939
  
• Some GRANT COUNTY NEWS
  
• THE ENTERPRISE - Anselmo, NE. 1939
  
• SENECA Papers 1910-1922; 1939
  
• THE SANDHILLS NEWS, Mullen, NE. 1953-1956
  
• A few early LITCHFIELD MONITOR and MASON CITY TRANSCRIPT
  
• 2003 NEBRASKA NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY AND RATE BOOK
  
  

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Miscellaneous Records in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• ABSENT VOTERS POLL book 1930 to 1938
• Book I of World’s War Record (Discharges recorded in Hooker Co. Clerk's Office)
  
• CITY DIRECTORIES OF MULLEN, NE 1897, 1997 & 1992
  
• EARLY MARKS AND BRANDS 1892 to 1908 (Cattle & Horses)
  
• NATURALIZATIONS with Index
  
• NOTARY PUBLIC COMMISSION and BOND RECORD
  
• METHODIST CHURCH RECORDS - Mullen, NE. (Baptisms, Marriages, Funerals) not typed
  
• MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE NUMBERS BOOK - Hooker County, Ne.
  
• CHERRY CO., NEBRASKA MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE DIRECTORY 1970, 1976, 1978, 1980.
  
• RESEARCH GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL DATA IN GRANT, CHERRY, HOOKER & THOMAS COUNTIES, NE.
  
  

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Family History Books in Hooker County Library Holdings

• ANDERSSON, LEVIN, AND BJORN -- Fred PEARSON
  
• Family Workbook - Ancestors & Descendants of DANIEL BOYER AND SUZANNA DELP by Wayne & Martha Osborne
  
• Direct Ancestors of SARAH ANN HUNTSMAN, wife of HUGH B. BOYER by Martha Osborne
  
• Direct Ancestors of HUGH BOYER by Wayne & Martha Osborne
  
• HUGH Sr. and MARGARET JAMES BOYER and their Baseball Nine - Clifford S. BOYER
  
• A Family Tree of BOYER and LONG Families
  
• BRADLEY Family Computer Listings - by Warren Conklin
  
• DANHAUER - LAND Family History 1611 to 1981 (donated by Lucille SCHMOKER)
  
• DICKINSON Research - 2 books from Bessie Bradley Estate
  
• 200 Years of DUFURS - By Helen DUFURS CASPER, 1979
  
• The Family of JAMES GARRETT and his wife SUSANNAH (MASHBURN) GARRETT of NC, GA, AR Compiled by Edna G. SIMPSON 1980
  
• GARRETT Family History - by Nina SCOTT CLARK
  
• THE INDIANA YEARS 1903-1941 by Walter B. HENDRICKSON
  
• HOCKERSMITH AND EVANS - by Joseph HOCKERSMITH
  
• HOLCOMB - DOANE & HENKE - A family History by Mary Alice HENKE
  
• Descendents of JAMES YONT JAMES & ELIZABETH P. SCOTT (Family Workbooks) by Wayne & Martha Osborne
  
• Pioneer History of CALVIN LONG family
  
• Computer Disks Genealogical listing of LYNCH, GORDON, GARWOOD, & McINTYRE by Roland LYNCH
  
• Addditional Computer Disk (Family Tree Maker) of LYNCH, GORDON, GARWOOD, McINTYRE & JONES by Roland LYNCH
  
• LUTES Family Tree - by Earnestine Lutes
  
• The MORAN Family - Descendents of HEZEKIAH, ROBERT MILTON, FRANCES PIERCE MORAN, and ALICE GRACE MORAN WRIGHT - Donated by Alice GIER
  
• PEARMAN Family History - "THE MELDING POT" - by Jean R. PEARMAN (Lost & a book borrowed and photocopied and placed in General Library)
  
• 100 Years of PEARSON - compiled by Fred J. PEARSON
  
• A Genealogy of AUGUSTIN REED, Sr. and HANNAH HICKS HUMPHREYS - compiled by Grace HUMPHREY WIESE, Lucille HUMPHREY BOGERT & Phyllis HUMPHREY PARKER
  
• MOLLIE - The Journal of MOLLIE DORSEY SANDFORD IN NE & CO Territories 1857-1866
  
• SEWARD & RELATED FAMILIES - by George SEWARD
  
• SIMONSON Family History & Listing - by Wanda SIMONSON
  
• The Past Made Present - History of the SNIDER Family - by Ralph SNIDER
  
• House of STARR - A STARR Family History (Loaned -Then returned to T.L. STARR)
  
• TAYLOR Family History - by Floy FLETCHER
  
• A CORRAL OF MEMORIES - by Merton THOMPSON
  
• The RUDYS OF GOD'S HOUSE - by William OSBORNE WINGARD
  
• VINTON Family Research - by Richard ROSS (Vertical File)
  
• WILCOX, WILCOXSON Families of New England - Compiled by Martha Scott Osborne (also Computer Disks)
  
• The Direct Ancestors of MARILLA JAY, wife of HARLOW MARTIN WILCOX -by Martha OSBORNE
  
• AARON WINBORN Herd Book - by Lewis A. WINBORN 1981
  
• Family Workbooks & Genealogical Records of Lessie Belle FERGUSON for BOYER, JOHNSON, FERGUSON FAMILIES
  
• Osborn Family History - by Jackie Osborn KOOPMAN
  
  

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Area History Books in the Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• History of ANTELOPE CO. NE Vol. 1, 1868 - 1985
  
• A SANDHILL CENTURY - CHERRY CO. NEBRASKA HISTORY Vol. 1 & 2 1883 to 1983
  
• The MULLEN ROUNDUP - Local History of Mullen, NE. 1884 to 1917
  
• HOOKER COUNTY, NEBRASKA - The First 100 years (1889 - 1989) Centennial History of Hooker County and Surrounding Area
  
• History of DAWES CO., NEBRASKA - First 100 years (1985)
  
• The HAMILTON Murder Story 1908 at Mullen, NE
  
• Prairie Pioneers of BOX BUTTE CO., NE - by Mae MANION
  
• History of the ELKHORN VALLEY OF NEBRASKA - an album of History and Biography
  
• DeWITTY - A Negro Settlement (Cherry Co., NE.- from NEBRASKALAND - June to Nov. 1988)
  
• POTLUCK POTPOURRI - CHERRY CO. HERITAGE BOOK
  
• GRANT COUNTY NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS - Grant Co., NE History 1980
  
• MASON CITY HISTORY BOOK (Mason City, NE 1886 - 1976)
  
• McPHERSON COUNTY Facts, Family & Fiction (McPherson Co., NE History 1986)
  
• MERRICK COUNTY'S 100th Year, 1858 - 1958 (Nebraska)
  
• A Pictorial History of the Sandhills (Thomas County, NE History)
  
• Troy's Journey by TROY CAUDILL
  
• North Country Vol. 1 (The old Town 1880-a Book about Country North of Valentine, NE
  
• Index to Compendium of Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska; 6 pp.
  Lists surnames and page numbers. Two copies of the book are located in Valentine NE City Library.
  
  

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Research Helps in Hooker County Genealogical Library Holdings

• Other Nebraska counties
  
• Other states
  
• National records
  
• Foreign countries
  
• Military research
  
• Immigration records
  
• "How To" books
  
• Map file
  
• Newsletters from Nebr counties, Nebr State, and other State Genealogical Societies
  
• Genealogy, DAR, and Nebraska Cattleman magazines
  
• Telephone books for many towns in Nebraska and a few other states
  
  

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This page was last updated on May 22, 2006
Hooker County Nebraska History & Genealogy
By Sandhills Roots Digger, Nina (Scott) Clark