Hello List Members, I am still trying to sort out HATCHER family connections in the Pine Log House Trenton area of old Edgefield District, South Carolina. I have CARPENTER, WHITLOCK, BOOTH proven. Still trying to make connections on RANDAL and CHRISTIAN and prove parents of Frances HATCHER b. c. 1842 d.c. mid-1870's m. James Whitlock, Jr. If Alfred Hatcher did not have any children, then who were the parents of my Frances Hatcher Whitlock b.c. 1842 d.c. mid-1870's Edgefield District/County, South Carolina. She was marrried to or lived with James Whitlock, Jr. in 1870 Edgefield County, South Carolina. In 1850 and 1860 she and a John Hatcher b.c. 1840 were living in household of Alfred Swearingen. Edgefield Equity Court Case #1161, sometime after 1868. I don't have the exact dates yet. I have ordered the whole bunch of equity packages from the SC Archives. I was short on time last summer in Edgefield. Thus just copied the index for Hatcher Case numbers and have ordered from the S. C Archives in Columbia. I just made a copy of the cover page and the one beside it with all the list of names on it. I have found some of them on the census for which I have indexes for some years and no idexes for others. None are listed as minors with guardians and all the men are presumed to have survived the Civil War. Some I have tentatively identified from census and some I have not been able to find/match up with a census. Equity Case #1000 claims Alfred Hatcher died c. 1868 and had/left no children. Then who were all of the people living in his household in 1850 and 1860 that included my Frances _?_???? This list of names from the Equity case should help prove a lot of marriages in the absence of SC marriage records. Robt Hatcher & wife Permetia/Permelia vs. Alfred Hatcher & Sam Posey Admr. & others} Partition a/c & Relief. Robt. Hatcher, wife Permelia This couple was probably Hatcher 1st cousins. She a dau. of Christia & William J. Turner and he a son of Bartley/Bartlett Hatcher & Temperance (maybe RobertsonRoberson. Christia Hatcher m. William J. Turner & Bartley/Bartlett Hatcher were brother and sister named in their father's, John, will. Alfred was their brother.) James Morris & wife Lucy W.J. Turner & wife Mary (See Carpenter note below. This Mary appears to be his second wife from the census. Was she also a Hatcher??? His first wife seems to have been Christia hatcher, dau of John and Christian Parker. Or is this a W. J. Truner, Jr.???) Elizbeth Hatcher James Hatcher W. R. Hatcher v Alfred Hatcher Sam Posey Adminr (who was Sam Posey???-lawyer or relative??) Jno Hatcher Polly Phillips Martin Phillips B. F. Hatcher J. M. Hatcher Charlotte Hatcher Geo.(?) W. (?) Hatcher P.(?) B. Hatcher Evalene Faulkner (?) Wesley Faulkner (?) Lewis Turner Elizabeth Turner Laura Turner Kella Turner David Turner Eliza Turner Jno. Carpenter (Were these two Carpenters Husband and wife or brother and sister?) Frances Carpenter (Estate record of John Hatcher and Christiana Parker identifies them as descendents of Christia Hatcher, dau. of John & Christiana, who apparently married W. J. Turner listed above, d.c.1853. Who was this John Carpenter??? Did Frances go by another name???) Eliza Hardy & husband ___Hardy Ben Thomas Lucy Powell & husband ____Powell Charlotte Jourdan Lucinda Adkinson Jno Atkinson B Jourdan A jourdan Laura Adkinson Charlotte Atkinson O. Sen/vtea/d (?) & wife America Any assistance appreciated. Hopes this helps someone prove a marriage. Vivian Cates, Rt. #2 Box 52-A, Alto, Texas 75925-9607 1-936-858-3801 http://www.inu.net/vcates