Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
The Kosciusko County Historical Society has received a $22,000 grant from the 1st Source Bank as trustee of the Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust.
The funds will be used to preserve and microfilm approximately 1,200 Kosciusko County assessor record books dated from 1860 to 1957.
The grant was written by Marjorie Priser, project director.
The massive project started with volunteers who sequentially numbered more than 105,000 pages for filming.
The books are being microfilmed by Information and Records Associates, South Bend.
After the filming process is complete, the books are returned to the archives. Selected years will be alphabetically indexed by surname.
As each township isindexed there will be a paper copy of the document placed in the library.
The indexes will be available on the Internet at www.rootsweb.com/~inkosciu
The Pfleiderer Charitable Trust was established by Esther Pfleiderer to assist charitable organizations in Kosciusko County. Pfleiderer was born and raised in Warsaw and taught math for 39 years in the Warsaw school system.
She also was very active in the community serving the boards of the Salvation Army, Warsaw Community Public Library, Kosciusko County Community Foundation, Kosciusko County Historical Society and the ministries of the First Presbyterian Church. In 1982 she was recognized as Warsaw's Woman of the Year.
Grant applications are available from the 1st Source Bank Personal Asset Management Group offices at 120 S. Lake St., Warsaw.
The next grant application deadline is Sept. 30.
For more information, call John Elliott, 268-1207
