I would check the notes section in a book called, "Slaves in the Family" by Edward Ball. Comingtee was a Ball family plantation and there are Roper names referenced in the book. Page 366 -- mentions the slaves who took the Roper name after being freed. The author interviewed a descendant, Sarah Roper England. Mrs. England said "our people came from Pawley's plantation and from Buck Hall." A planter named J.W. Roper owned Pawley's plantation but at some point it was purchased by a member of the Ball family. (My Roper family lived in the South Carolina "up country" but I have a copy of this book -- it is extraordinary.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345431057/qid=1116191132/ sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-2064768-9670213?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Surnames: Banister/Bannister, Fletcher, White, Baldwin, Roper, Adams, Hester, Lawson My Roper line is from Pickens County, South Carolina to Pickens County, Georgia: Aaron Roper (4th Great-Grandfather), Tyre Lewis Roper (3rd Great-Grandfather), Elijah R. Roper (2nd Great-Grandfather), Ida Susan Roper (Great-Grandmother) Rebecca Bannister [email protected] (Main Email) [email protected] (Geneology Email) [email protected] (Cherokee County Historical Society Newsletter) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ROPER] ROPER SLAVES IN SC This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ROPER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kgDBAEB/757 Message Board Post: ISO information on VIOLET and MANZA (Amanda?) ROPER whose names appear on a list of freedpersons from Comingtee Plantation in St. Johns Berkley, SC dated 1 March 1866.