African Americans
LaPorte County Indiana
“African Methodist Protestant Meeting House-Election of Trustees, March 31, 1845.” Recorder Book O, Page 412, March 6, 1845. La Porte County Historical Society Archives.
“At Rest.” La Porte Daily Herald, November 21, 1892, page 3, col. 5.
“First Colored Persons of La Porte County.” Charles Cochran Papers, La Porte County Historical Society Archives.
Eddy-Shultz, Fern. “Early Black History of La Porte County, Indiana” La Porte, Indiana: La Porte County Historical Society, 2014. (County historian’s presentation file)
“General Index of Deeds #1 Grantee, April 1833–April 1848, La Porte County, Indiana.” Deed Book H, page 442. County Recorder’s Office, LaPorte, Indiana.
“General Index of Deeds #1 Grantee, April 1833-April 1848, La Porte County, Indiana.” Deed Book F, page 179 and 188. County Recorder’s Office, La Porte, Indiana.
Goldsworthy, Terry. “Kankakee & St. Joseph River Valleys of Indiana.” in Underground Rail-road Research in Select Indiana Counties, 89-121. Indianapolis: Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, 2003.
Goldsworthy, Terry. “Was Freedom Dead or Only Sleeping?: The pre-1870 African American Rural Communities of the Kankakee River Valley.” Black History News & Notes, November, 1997.
Hickman, Russell and Elvis Oats, “Quaker Meetings and Cemetery in La Porte.” La Porte County Historical Society Archives, Society of Friends [vertical file.]
Higgins, Belden & Company. An Illustrated Historical Atlas of La Porte Co., Indiana. Chicago: The Company, 1874.
History of La Porte County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Townships : Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens: History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, French, English, and American Conquests, and a General Review of Its Civil, Political, and Military History. Chicago: Chas. C. Chapman & Company, 1880.
Jessen, Julie K. “African-American Culture and History Northwestern Indiana 1850-1940.” Masters thesis, Ball State University, 1996.
La Porte County Historical Society. Combined Atlases of La Porte County, Indiana, 1874-1892, 1907-1921. Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1998.
McDougald, Lois C. “Negro Migration into Indiana, 1800-1860.” Masters thesis, Indiana University, 1945.
Thornbrough, Emma Lou. The Negro in Indiana before 1900: A Study of a Minority. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Lake County
Millender, Dharathula H. Yesterday in Gary: A brief history of the Negro in Gary. Gary, Ind.: D. Millender, 1967.
Mohl, Raymond A. and Neil Betten. Steel City: Urban and Ethnic Patterns in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1950. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986.
Thornbrough, Emma Lou. Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2000
Porter County
Goldsworthy, Terry. “Was Freedom Dead or Only Sleeping?: The pre-1870 African American Rural Communities of the Kankakee River Valley.” Black History News & Notes, November, 1997.
Hardesty, A. G. Illustrated Historical Atlas of Porter County, Indiana, 1876. Evansville, Ind: Unigraphic, 1979 (reprint).
Harrison, Wendy. “Wendy Harrison’s Family Page.” Ancestry.com- Family Tree Guide. Accessed July 10, 2014.
“Indiana African American Survey of Historic Sites and Structures,” Library Collection, Indiana Landmarks State Headquarters, Indianapolis
Jessen, Julie K. “African-American Culture and History Northwestern Indiana 1850-1940.” Masters thesis, Ball State Univeristy, 1996.
Obituary—”Ben Buford Huston.” Westville Indicator, July 18, 1907.
Office of the Recorder of Porter County, Indiana. 1875 Enumeration Record Porter County. [In LaPorte County Historian’s folder
Newton County
Andreas, A. T. Map of Newton County: Map of White County. s.l.: s.n., 1876.
Born, Gerald M. et. al., comp. Cemeteries of Newton County, Indiana, 2 vols. Kentland, Indiana: Newton County Historical Society, 1996.
Hall, Susie and Beth Bassett. “Morgan Tracey Cemetery.” Directory of Cemeteries – Newton County, Indiana. Accessed June 25, 2014.
Hiestand, Joseph E. An Archaeological Report on Newton County, Indiana. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1951.
Index to Marriage Records, Newton County, Indiana, 1860-1920, Inclusive. Kentland, Indiana: s.n., 1968.
Standard Atlas of Newton County, Indiana: Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County … Patrons Directory, Reference Business Directory. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co, 1916.