Penny, thank you for your interest. My missing great grandfather died in or about 1879 we believe in Union County, NC. My grandmother told her children that her daddy died when she was seven years old, that is how we calculated the year of death. There are on SC death certificates for that time frame. I would love to get hold of old church records for the area of Monroe, Waxhaw and Mineral Springs. We know that Henry R. Rape was born in 1830 in this area. His father, John Rape, built the Arbor at Mineral Springs Camp Ground in that same year, they were said to have lived four miles from the camp ground. Other family members have said that the family had moved back to NC after my grandmother was born and that he died there. Yes, I have gathered death certificates from both the Vital Statistics Office and the SC Department of Archives and History in Columbia. That is how I learned the name of my paternal grandfather's mother. Her name was incomplete on several of her children, some had her last name but no first name, others had Mary or Ellen only with no last name. Then on my grandfather's funeral record from the funeral home, I found her name. That with all the pieces from the death certificates verified her full name. My great grandmother Mary Jane Howell Rape (my original Thanksgiving guest) was buried at Longtown Presbyterian Church in Fairfield County, SC, in an unmarked grave. The older of my aunt's attended the funeral in 1919 and knew the location of the grave. We were able to get permission from the Session of the church and the family collected money at our family reunion to pay for a headstone. We marked her grave seventy-seven years after she was buried. I am proud of our family for doing this for her. Aileen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny Ladnier" <penny@costumegallery.com> To: <SCLANCAS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, 15-November-2003 01:31 Subject: [SCLANCAS] Finding lost relatives at the turn of 20th Century > Aileen, > > Have you tried accessing the SC death records from the SC Dept. of Vital > Statistics? They start around 1900/1910 and go through 1959. They are > online... sorry, I can't find my bookmark of the URL. Maybe someone has it. > Usually on the death certificate is stated the name of the cemetery. That's > how I found my great-grandmother burial place. She is in an unmarked grave > in Lancaster. This church doesn't have its early records for the cemetery. > A newspaper obituary of a great uncle says that two of his brothers are > buried there too. I know their graves are unmarked because I have been to > the cemetery. Which makes me wonder how this church knows that they aren't > burying someone on top of my relatives. > > If you see one of your relatives on the SC death listing, then you can order > the certificate. The website doesn't give full details. But the > certificate itself, does list the person's parents names. I have to give SC > credit, their death certificates are very detailed. > > For those missing Lancaster relatives around the turn of the 20th Century, > there was a migration to Rock Hill, York County, around 1900-1905 to work in > the textiles mills. Many women and men became weavers and spinners. The > Rock Hill City Cemeteries are online too. They are very organized and easy > to use. I have seen city directories of Rock Hill from the early part of > the century. Valuable information in them. The directories are not online. > Rock Hill City Cemeteries: > http://www.rhmaps.ci.rock-hill.sc.us/website/rh_cem/viewer.htm > > Penny Ladnier > Owner, The Costume Gallery & Costume Classroom > www.costumegallery.com/fotodate/ > www.costumeclassroom.com > > > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Plugit.com Virus Scanners (http://www.plugit.com)] > > > ============================== > 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 > >

I believe their is a Rape Family book in the Lancaster Public library. I haven't been there in years, but I am sure that is where I found it. Afraid I was not documenting too well in those days, though I know some where have the photocopies of pages of Peter Sr. who married about 1779. Daughter, Catherine (abt 1764) married David Funderburk. Do note in my database she has an LDS Ancestral file #. You may find some info at http://www.familysearch.org Title The Rape family tree Stmnt.Resp. compiled by Nell Taylor Norvall Authors Norvell, Nell Taylor, 1927- (Main Author) Notes Includes index (listing Rappe and other variant spellings). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Includes Craig, Funderburk, Gordon, Hancock, Laney, Morgan and related families. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Peter Rape (d.1788/1789) moved from Pennsylvania to what is now Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and married twice. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas and elsewhere. . > > I would love to get hold of old church records for the area of Monroe, > Waxhaw and Mineral Springs. We know that Henry R. Rape was born in 1830 in > this area. His father, John Rape, built the Arbor at Mineral Springs Camp > Ground in that same year, they were said to have lived four miles from the > camp ground. Other family members have said that the family had moved back > to NC after my grandmother was born and that he died there. > >