Morley Library staff can help you locate and print the tax information and forms that you request. We cannot provide tax advice or assistance with completing tax returns.
We can print most tax forms you need. The first 10 pages per day are free, additional pages are 10 cents per page.
Our Obituary Index is for Lake County, Oh death notices appearing in the Painesville Telegraph, from 16 July 1822 to 30 April 1986, and in the News-Herald (Willoughby), 25 March 1986 to 30 September 2019.
Cemetery inscriptions cover the following areas: Lake County [except Fairport Cemetery and St. Mary's Cemetery in Painesville], compiled 1926-1929; St. Mary's Cemetery, Painesville, compiled 1983; and Riverside Cemetery, Painesville, compiled 1990-1995.
Indexes to the 1820-1860 and 1880 Ohio Census are available.
Census microfilm covers:
Ashtabula County, 1820-1880, 1900-1930
Cuyahoga County, 1820, 1830, 1850-1880
Geauga County, 1820-1880, 1900-1930
First Church Congregational, Painesville [births/baptisms 1810-1995, deaths/funerals 1810-1996, and church records 1810-1836]
St. James Episcopal Church, Painesville [baptisms 1824-1874]
Directories by City:
Painesville: 1895, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1911, 1923, 1929, 1930
Painesville, Including Painesville Township, Fairport, Richmond/Grand River and Mentor Village: 1940, 1942, 1954
These books show land ownership, size of property, and sometimes the location of buildings. The Lake County atlases available are:
1840 [indexed]
1857 [indexed]
Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications
Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books, volumes 1-166, with indices for volumes 1-160, and the Patriot Index [1990 Centennial Edition]
Roster of Ohio Soldiers War of 1812
The nucleus of the Morley Library on Phelps Street was provided by the local Women's Christian Temperance Union, which established a temperance library and reading room in 1878. After librarian Mary Dean's death in 1898, friends set about fulfilling her dream of a free public library.
