Don't forget to ask for PROBATE RECORDS, not just WILLS. The SC State Archives has a microfilm for Edgefield Co. that I use all the time that is an index to Probate records, both wills and intestate administrations. Only the wills show up in Will Books. I would assume that other counties have the same records and an index can be found on them, just as with the Edgefield Probate. I have found much useful info. in the estate settlements when the accountings are made by the administrator - they list such items as payment for clothes, tuition etc for minor children, give the accounting for the legatees receiving their portion and the date they did so, which often helps determine their age. Also husbands of daughters are given. Often the widow has remarried and her share is paid out in her new name. That is certainly not in the will. Even when there is a will, I use the probate records and not the will books so I can see what other info. they might contain. Also, if you find an abstract, I recommend that you order the entire record, as often I have found the abstracts left out information important to me, and are sometime misleading because all info. cannot be given in the space alloted for the abstract. Hopefully, your family got into a squabble about their inheritance. If so, there is an Equity Suit that will name everyone involved, their relationships, etc. This often happens where there are two marriages, and the equity suit is wonderful to show who goes in what family. There is an index of these Equity suits as well, and micrifilmed records of the actual cases. Carol Wells just released a small book on Equity Records in Edgefield Co. I have already found some good into. in her book. I have not done much with other court records yet, but they are also at the State Archives, as well as in the actual counties I would assume. Happy Hunting Billie Jones Camden, SC tjones@camden.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jrcinsd2@aol.com> To: <SCNEWBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [SCNEWBERRY] Samuel Cannon > Char, Funny you should mention getting a Samuel CANNON will, I just sent to > NC Archives yesterday to see if they have one in the timeframe I am > researching. SC does not have one in their records....which means only that > they don't have one, not that one absolutely never existed. You're right > about records getting sparse pre-1776. I call it the foggy time!! > > Janice (Cannon) > > > ==== SCNEWBER Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Billie: Have you ever noticed any one with the surname of Floyd listed in the Probate section in SC records? I am trying with all my might to locate some sort of clue as to who Tho's Floyd was who shows up in Colleton Co. on the 1850 census age 12 with I suppose his Mother Elizabeth Floyd age 30. I have a very strong feeling that perhaps his Father died there. I can't tell really because back on the 1840 it only lists heads of household. One strong clue in my favor is this: There were at least two Lewis Floyd men in the general area of SC in the 1840 Census and later on as an adult Tom {sic in GA} named a son Lewis M. Floyd. So perhaps I seek the Probate records of a Lewis Floyd In Horry Co. I found that year a J. L. Floyd so this could be Lewis on p. 337 a Lewis Floyd shows up on p. 325 that same census and a Lewis H. Floyd shows up on p. 348 same census all in Horry Co. SC. Now the man Lewis H. Floyd shows up with 2 males under 5 and my Tho's would be under 5 that year, himself being the male age 20-30 and one female age 5-10 and one female must be his wife age 20-30. I suspect this is them, but would need to know is this woman in age group 20-30 Elizabeth. The Elizabeth with Tho's in Colleton the very next Census does show up as 30 years old. So this does seem to fit. Can you please help me to find out if this is my Elizabeth mother of Tho's Floyd and if perhaps this is the Tho's Floyd who grew up to be a lumber Cutter and moved over into GA into Charleton Co. and also married a woman named Elizabeth and had about six children in all. I have them in GA just can't place him before that for sure. Confused in Florida, Gail