Hi to all of you, Thanks for all the great information, at first I thought no one was there but it looks like there are plenty of you, who know about Sumter County. Some of you ask about the family that I am researching. I have a James Ross or Rosser who married an Elizabeth Ross in Jasper County, Ga. in 1815. I am trying to find if James may have died in Sumter County. His son John took a wife born in Ala. and had his first four children there. The wife according to the death certificate of one of there children was a Morning Winters. On the census she is listed as Rebecca M. and some say of course, the name was probably Mourning. This time frame is somewhere between 1840 and 1850. On the 1850 census, they are in Texas. Elizabeth is with them but not James. So I would hope to find some information on James and the other children. Thanks again Pat.