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County Information
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IOWA:

County formation dates, county seats, county maps see USGENWEB, MD
Frederick Co.-Thurmont, in northern Frederick Co., was once called Mechanicstown.

County formation dates, county seats, county maps see USGENWEB, NE
Washington Co.-The towns of DeSota and Cumings City no longer exist in Washington Co., NE. DeSota was incorporated into the town of Blair. Cumings City, a mile or two north of the town of Blair, was laid out in lots, but to my knowledge, only a few houses were built, and most of the land is now farm land. The cemetery still remains.

OHIO:

County formation dates, county seats, county maps see USGENWEB, WV
The western counties of Virginia refused to secede from the Union. A Constitutional Convention assembled at Wheeling, Virginia on November 26, 1861 and adjourned February 18, 1862, forming a new state which joined the Union as the 35th. state in 1863. These 55 counties, formerly Virginia counties became West Virginia counties: *Barbour, Berkeley, *Boone, *Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, *Fayette, *Gilmer, *Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, *Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, *Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, *Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, *Mineral, *Mingo, Monongalia, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Ohio, Pendleton, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Preston, Putnam, Raleigh, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, *Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, *Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, Wood, and Wyoming:* Counties were formed from existing West Virginia Counties after 1863; see the county list at USGENWEB, WV, for formation dates and parent counties. In the text of TRAKWEST family groups, if the person was born prior to 1863, the county will be designated as a Virginia county, and after 1863, a West Virginia county.

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