By: L.F. Johnson, Pub. 1912, reprinted 2025, 334 pages, NEW INDEX, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-603-1. Franklin County was created in 1795 from Mercer, Shelby and Woodford Counties. This book is a comprehensive history of the county broken up in 10-year increments. With this new index, this book is now suitable for genealogical research. There are thousands of names being mention from the time frame of 1794 to 1912. Many of them being discussed through the usual topics as Indians Incursions, Politics, Churches, Settlement of Land, Muster Rolls of the War of 1812 and Civil War, Census, Tax Records, and other items of interest. The New Index that was completed for this reprint mentions over 2,400 individuals.