My FORD were in SC on the Wateree River before 1780. I don't know where they were prior to that. The ABBOTT family was on the Wateree River about 1760. There was a John Abbott further south in Georgetown, SC circa 1730 who is said to have come from one of the northern colonies, but I can't connect my Abbotts to him. Tony //////////////// Larry and Elaine Blackman wrote: >Were any of your FORDs in Manakintown, VA coming in as FAURE's? > >Also, were any of your ABBOTTs orig. in MA really early? > >Elaine Blackman > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tony L. Cox" <ztlcox@worldnet.att.net> >To: <SCLANCAS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 2:30 PM >Subject: [SCLANCAS] Roll Call: DUKE, BURGE, FORD, ABBOTT, WELLS, and >CRENSHAW, 1730 - 1830 > > > > >>I'm studying the DUKE, DUKES, BURGE, FORD, ABBOTT, WELLS, and CRENSHAW >>families of Lancaster, Fairfield, and Kershaw >>Cos., SC in the century starting 1730. I'd appreciate hearing from >>anyone about those families. >> >>DUKE(S): Benjamin, Robert, John, Moses, Crenshaw, Priscilla, Stephen, >>Joel, Jesse, Elias, William, Richard, Austin, Bartlett, Burrell, Sarah >> >>BURGE: Richard, John Raines, John, Burrell, Sarah, Nancy, Jeremiah, >>Green, Berryman, Benjamin, Susannah, Henry, Bynum, Nicholas >> >>FORD: Benjamin, Frederick, Hezekiah, Nathaniel, Gardner, Martha, >>Elizabeth, William >> >>ABBOTT: John, William >> >>WELLS: William, Samuel D, >> >>CRENSHAW, Micajah, William, Joseph >> >>Tony Cox >>My webpage: http://home.att.net/~ztlcox/ >> >> >>==== SCLANCAS Mailing List ==== >>Web page with info for this list - >> >> >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/lancaster.html > > >>============================== >>Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >>Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >> >> >> > > >==== SCLANCAS Mailing List ==== >Web page with info for this list - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/lancaster.html > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > >

Both sides of my father's families are from Lancaster county. My Dunlaps moved to Rock Hill around 1900. Most of my information of my families are from 1850 to 1900 in Lancaster county for all my families. My Dunlaps hit a brick wall in 1860. I can't find which family my Laurence Dunlap came from. I have the same problem with my Nancy M. Belk. I do know her parents' names were Henry Belk and Catherine Beaver. So funny that none of the historians of these family lines from this county claim either Laurence or Nancy in their lines. Two of their children's families still live in the area. One son James' grandchildren are in Monroe county, NC, just down the highway, and another son AJ's grandchildren are still in the Lancaster area. I have tons of information from James' family, but they do not go past the CW. I spoke to a couple of AJ's children before they passed on. But their memory was fading at the time. My Templetons seem to have floated into the area in the 1870s and were gone by 1900. James P. and Margaret Templeton were the head of that small family. They had a son, Davis, my grandmother's father, who died before she was born in an accident. He married Sarah Ann Louise Usher. When Davis died and my grandmother (Della) was born, the Templetons took her in to raise until she was 12. Sarah then married a Knight and got custody of Della. I have the court records on this. I have no idea how Davis died. James Templeton was deaf, and was one of the first students at the South Carolina School of the Blind. I have called the school but they do not have a historian. My cousin has one of his school books and I have found him on the census there in 1860. All of my families except the Ushers, lived around the Zion Church area. I would love to know who holds the cemetery records at Mt. Zion church. I have called them, but they said they didn't know. Nancy Belk Dunlap's grave is in the cemetery, unmarked, and I believe my grandfather and one of his brother John, are in the graveyard unmarked too. There is a marker for AJ Dunlap who is also buried there. I am concerned because if they do not have a history of the graveyard, what stops them from burying people on top of my grandparents. This church is still active. I have been to the graveyard and it is really not that big. People have been buried there in the past ten years. Gives me more gray hairs to think about this. I would be happy to compile their graveyard records, if they have any. But they didn't seem to cooperative when I last spoke to them about 8 years ago. Penny E. Ladnier Owner, The Costume Gallery & Online Reference Library, AND Costume Classroom www.costumegallery.com www.costumegallery.com/research.htm www.costumeclassroom.com