Hi Mrs Childers and others I read in the Old 96 District mailing list that you and your class are searching for information on Old Schools in the Old 96 District. While searching the Martin line of W.W.Martin and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Mills Martin,I came accross A Martin School,which I believe to have been on Martin School Rd. in Pickens,SC. W.W.Martin worked in the Clerk Of Court office of J.M.Stewart,about 1870-90s. I am connected to this line thru their daughter,Sarah Elizabeth Susannah (Martin/Holcombe?) Stewart married to my ggrandfather Daniel Carter Stewart b.1842 Pickens co.SC.,son of Robert Stewart and Elizabeth Durham. There is a Martin collection at Clemson Univ.of some 200 letters belonging to this Martin line. I placed a folder of letters and information from the Pickens co.SC. Stewart line connected to this Martin line at the Faith Clayton genealogy room at Southern Wesleyan Univ. in Central,SC. Anne Sheriff is the curator in the genealogy room there. I have a 2nd cousin,who has a large school book on geography,which belonged to Sarah Elizabeth Susannah Martin/Holcombe Stewart.I suspect the book was connected to the school. Also there is a Barbara Martin in the Oconee area,who still has the original Bell to the School and maybe more information that I have on this Martin School. I realize that this School is not in the areas you mentioned,but it was in the area that was once Old 96 District,I hope you will include it. I will put the email address here of three other Martin searchers,who may have additional information on the Martin School. Thank you and much success with your project. Gay Stewart Beam jimfile@aol Barbara Martin DisMartin @aol Dick Martin Mountaineers2@bellsouth.net Sandy I will put a link here for these three back to your Abbeville,Old96 School page. Homepage click on the web page designed by Mrs Childers. <A HREF="http://www.acsd.k12.sc.us/ahs/">New Web</A> http://www.acsd.k12.sc.us/ahs/

I've got a copy of an old soil survey map ca. 1934/37 that shows the location of each school in Pickens County at that time. Apparently there was a map and booklet produced for each county in the state. You may want to check with your county soil conservation office to see if they still have a copy. I got mine at the Pickens office less than 10 years ago, so there may still be some floating around out there for the other counties. It is very interesting to look at the old maps, especially one as detailed as this, to see how the roads ran, and where the churches and schools were. Each house in the county is represented by a dot, so you can determine how many neighbors your ancesters had and how close. John Cook

For a list of the soil survey maps that are available check out this web site. http://soils.usda.gov/soil_survey/pub_sur/sc.htm It looks like most of the ca. 1943 surveys are out of print and no longer available but I have sent the state office a note and requested that if there are still a few stashed away, that they would sent us copies. John M. Cook, Jr. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Cook, Jr." <j-cook@mindspring.com> To: <SC-OLD96-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 7:38 AM Subject: Re: [Old96] Schools > I've got a copy of an old soil survey map ca. 1934/37 that shows the > location of each school in Pickens County at that time. Apparently there > was a map and booklet produced for each county in the state. You may want > to check with your county soil conservation office to see if they still have > a copy. I got mine at the Pickens office less than 10 years ago, so there > may still be some floating around out there for the other counties. > > It is very interesting to look at the old maps, especially one as detailed > as this, to see how the roads ran, and where the churches and schools were. > Each house in the county is represented by a dot, so you can determine how > many neighbors your ancesters had and how close. > > John Cook >