The Leon Public Library, 200 W 1st, Leon IA 50144; 641/446-6332 leonpl@grm.net	Leon Public Library Hours Monday 12:30 - 7:30p Tuesday 10:30a - 5:30p Wednesday 12:30 - 5:30p Thursday 10:30a - 5:30p Friday 12:30 - 5:30p Saturday 10:30a - 1:30p

• Library Records:

 
 
• History of Decatur County (1915)
• Census records
• Some Obits before 1921
• Some Family Histories
• Leon Business Men and Women (News clips)
• Church (newsclips)
• Iowa 1850 Census Index
• Reflections of Decatur County Townships (newsclips)
• Album (newsclips)
• Postcards (newsclips)
• Christian Overholtzer and His Father Jacob
• Ames Family 1520 - 1969
• Thomas Wasson 1815 - 1986
• Thomas Hall Family
• By the Name of Richards
• The Robert Newton Leeper Family
• John Varner and his son Wesley Martin Varner of Muskingum Co OH and his wife Katherine
• Thomas Fullerton (1813 - 1898) and Eleaner Thompson (1819 - 1873)
• Irene Snyder Starry - From Me... To You... With Love
• Genealogy of the Family of Douglass
• The Sanger-Stewarts
• The Alden White Stearns and Mary Edith Wales Stearns Family
• Trislers and Related Families
• Sheppard-Marshall and Allied Families
• Up the Brammer Spur Trail
• Meet the Tisdales
• Foland Family Record
• Fullerton Barrett Family History
• Ramsey-Edwards Family Record

• The Leon- Journal Reporter,

110 N Main,
Leon IA 50144;
641/446-4151
 
• Newspaper articles and Obits starting in 1921.
• Twice Told Tales columns.

Tid bits of information can be found at the Decatur County Museum:

 
• Photographs
• County School Records

• Military Sprapbooks

Cemetery records:

 
• Lois Slade's Cemetery book
• Leon City Hall for Leon Cemetery

104 W 1st Street
Leon IA 50144;
641/446-6221

• Funeral Homes:
 
• Slade-O'Donnell Funeral Home

103 NE Mill,
Leon IA 50144;
641/446-6211
• Carl Green's Funeral books

• Elizabeth Redman's Personal Library

304 SE 9th Street
Leon IA 50144

• Carla Rae's Personal Library

403 NE 8th Street
Leon IA 50144;
641/446-6379
 
• Riddle - Beavers History
• Old Gammon Families and Related Families
• Lamoni's Passing Parade
• Lois Slade's Cemetery book
• National Yellow Book of Funeral Directors
• Vital Records Handbook
• Akes Family Genealogy
• Brawner Family Genealogy
• 25th Anniversary Surname Index 1990
• The World Book of Stifels
• Three Centuries of Perks
• Grand Army of the Republic Post Records, Decatur Co. IA
• DAR Abigail Adams Chapter Yearbook 1996-1997
• Various Obits, Funeral Memory cards and Personal Lookup Database

Additional Sources Available Online

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• Penny Postcards
• Iowa Family Group Sheets
• U.S. Bureau of the Census
• Iowa Documents
• Vital Records Information - Iowa
• Cyndi's List - Iowa
• Iowa Obituary Links
• Civil War Rosters - All States
• The Inflation Calculator
• Bureau of Land Management
• State Library of Iowa
• National Archives Access to Archives Databases
• Iowa Early Physicians, Hospitals and Medical Societies
• Iowa State College Attendees
• Iowa Masons
• The Political Graveyard - Decatur County, Iowa
• Interment.net - Decatur County, Iowa