Had a chance to go to the Camden Archives today and work on a sheet of Death Certificates, surnames starting with a B. Billie Jones Camden, SC tjones@camden.net ------------------------------------------------ 1925 - Death Certificate # 8098, Greenwood Co, SC Jas P. Burnett White, Male, Widowed, Retired b. August 27, 1830, SC [census records show 1832) father: Pleasant Burnett b. SC mother: Artemesia Carter b. SC d. May 17, 1925, Phoenix, Greenwood, Co, SC cause: heart disease buried: Phoenix, SC Informant: Mrs. A. T. Gordon undertaker: H. B. Ellis, Greenwood, SC Pleasant and Artemesia Carter Burnett are my ancestors thru son Thomas Jefferson Burnett m. Emily Holloway. I have lots of information on the Burnetts in this line. Will share on request. ------------------------------------------- Wrote this down because I remembered looking up a Cato this week somewhere, but can't find any connection. 1935 - Death Cert. #11103, Saluda Co, SC Mrs. Corrie Cato Female, White, widowed, spouse of Fate Cato born: age 74, Aiken Co, SC* Parents not given d. July 26, 1935, Ward township, Saluda Co, SC cause: organic heart disease; hypertension; senile dibility *Aiken Co. not formed until 1870. ---------------------------------------- 1949 - Death Cert. #2227, Saluda Co, SC Johnson Burnett Male, White, married Anna Burnett, her age 74 father: Hezekiah Burnett, Saluda Co, SC* mother: ___illia Butler, Saluda Co, SC* d. Feb. 14, 1949, Rural Saluda Co, SC cause: coronary thrombosis informant: R.E. Burnett, Saluda, SC buried: Good Hope [Baptist Church, Saluda Co, SC] UT: Ramey's, Saluda, SC I have more on this Burnett line as well. Mother, according to census records was Melinda 'Milly' Butler and her death certificate provides more info. on her. I have posted it before. No Death Cert. availabe for his father, who died in 1914. 1915 - Death Certificate # 12331, Saluda Co, SC Millie Burnett White, Female, Widowed b. Aug. 4, 1830, Saluda SC [has to be Edgefield in 1830] Age: 84 years, 10 mo, 26 days (calculated to b. August 1, 1830) father: WILLIAM BUTLER, b. Saluda, SC * mother: __ WEAVER, b. Saluda, SC* d. June 26, 1915, Saluda Co, SC cause: hypostatic pheumonia following debility of old age. informant: W. E. Leoppard, Chappells, SC buried: Good Hope, Saluda, SC undertaker: R. L. Ramey, Saluda. *Saluda Co. not formed until 1795. Until that time the area was in Old Edgefield Dist. ------------------------------------------------ This one was next to Johnson Burnett, and I know folks who work on the Nicholsons, so copied this. I have no ide or interest in attaching them. 1949 - Death Cert. #2226, Saluda Co, SC Paul Lansing Nicholson Male, White, married Mrs. Emel(ise) Nicholson who was age 60 b. July 11, 1881, Saluda Co, SC * father: U. C. Nicholson, Saluda Co, SC* mother: Julia Clark, Saluda Co, SC* d. Feb. 11, 1949, Saluda, Saluda Co, SC cause: acute dilation of heart; old heart lesion informant: Wiley (_). (Goff). Saluda, SC buried: (Salem) UT: Ramey's, Saluda, SC ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1941 - Death Cert. #18709, Aiken Co, SC Mrs. Bessie C. Bodie Female, White, married b. Feb. 14, 1885, Edgefield Co, SC father: A. B. Couch, Edgefield Co, SC mother: Elle Covar, Edgefield Co, SC d. Dec. 13, 1941, Aiken, Aiken Co, SC cause: (alyo)carditis; chronic informant: R. A. Bodie, Aiken, SC buried: Philippi Church UT: D. M. George, Aiken, SC She was married to Ransome A. Bodie who died in 1948. Her obit states: (Aug. Chron. Obit., Mon., 15 Dec 1941) Mrs. R. A. Bodie Passes at Aiken AIKEN. S. C., Dec. 14 - Mrs. Bessie Couch Bodie, 56, died at her home near here this morning at 11 o'clock. Funeral services will be held at the Philippi church near Johnson tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Paul Hartsell will officiate, and interment will follow in the churchyard cemetery. Mrs. Bodie's nephews will act as pallbearers. These nephews are Elbert Couch, Tom Couch, Irwin Arthur, Hutson Arthur, Earl Couch and Ledson Couch. Surviving Mrs. Bodie are her husband, R. A. Bodie; an adopted son Alexander Bodie of Pelzer, S.C., and five brothers. J. L. Bodie of Aiken. R. L. Bodie of Langley, John B. Bodie of Aiken, A. B. Bodie of Langley and J. W. Bodie of Pelzer. ------------------------------------------------------ 1937 - Death Certificate #19873 Jennie Butler Female, White, married to Brooks Butler Home Address: Ninety-Six, RFD b. SC, age 76yr, 7mo, 2 d father: Tom Butler, SC mother: Elsie Burnett, SC d. Dec. 11, 1937, Colemans, Saluda Co, SC cause: cerebral Hemorrhage informant: Alvin Butler, Saluda, SC buried: Good Hope UT: R. L. Ramey & Son Brooks Butler is Presley Brooks Butler and he is listed in the death certificate index as 1938- Cert. #9720, Saluda Co, SC. However, when I looked it up, not one word could be read off the microfilm. A copy of the original might provide information. Altho the name I have for his wife is Sarah Jane, which comes from the following listing of Good Hope Cem. Records, Saluda Co, SC, her death cert. calls her Jennie. Butler, Pressley B. Nov 15 1857 Jun 11 1938 Butler, Sara Jane May 28 1861 Dec 18 1937 Butler, Susannah Jun 22 1879 Jul 7 1894 Butler, Victoria Apr 9 1883 Dec 17 1888 Butler, Carrie Aug 2 1890 Nov 9 1912 HOWEVER, the death certificate gives a different name and a different date, but same husband. I checked the 1900 census and it gives her as Sara, b. 5/1861, as does the cem. record. -------------------------------------