"RAMBLES IN THE PEE DEE BASIN, SC" by H.T. Cook covers the entire Pee Dee River Basin from the Georgetown area up to the NC state line and the families that lived all up and down that river from it's earliest days. There is an index but it doesn't cover every name in the book, so you would be well-advised to take the time to sit and read the entire book. It is wonderful. Brent Holcomb has published the early land petitions of SC which include the early settlers that came to the Pee Dee from 1734 up to 1774. This is in seven volumes.. and well worth the price. "PETITIONS FOR LAND FROM THE SC COUNCIL JOURNALS". \ John Gregg"s "EARLY PEE DEE SETTLERS" in two volumes, lists those that were in the Pee Dee during the years you are interested. John is a member of the Three Rivers Historical Soc. "THE FRONTIER IN THE COLONIAL SOUTH...S.C. Backcountry, 1736-1800 "..by George Lloyd Johnson, Jr. This book covers the Pee Dee Basin as well. "Marion Co.,SC Abstrcts of Deeds" by Sutcliffe comes in two volumes. You do not say exactly which part of the Pee Dee you are interested in.. but each county has other sources of information. For instance.. Darlington, Chesterfield and Marlboro have the wonderful "HISTORY OF THE OLD CHERAWS".. and other books that cover the people from early times that lived in that section of the Pee Dee. The above list is only a partial list of what is available to researchers on the Pee Dee area. Joanne Harley [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:11 AM Subject: [SCMARION-L] question > Are there any books that contain information on the mid 1700's to early > 1800's. My ancestor, Luke Whitfield lived and died in the Peedee Section. > One of his children, William and Grandson, George also lived there. Thank > you. Mary Ellen

MARY ELLEN, YOU SHOULD CONTACT THE "THREE RIVERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY" IN HEMMINGWAY, SC. THEY KNOW A LOT ABOUT BOOKS AND OTHER INFORMATION FOR THE MARION AREA. SUSAN

Are there any books that contain information on the mid 1700's to early 1800's. My ancestor, Luke Whitfield lived and died in the Peedee Section. One of his children, William and Grandson, George also lived there. Thank you. Mary Ellen

Ancestral Guide to the Pee Dee, by Bethea Mildred

MARION | Mrs. Virginia Godbold Causey, 79, widow of Lloyd Harvey Causey, died Monday, Feb. 6, 2006 at McLeod Hospice House in Florence after an illness. Mrs. Causey was born April 23, 1926 in Marion County, a daughter of the late Fred Monroe Godbold and the late Leona Grice Godbold. She retired from Heritage Sportswear. Mrs. Causey was a member of Marion Baptist Church, where she was a member of the Gleaners Sunday School Class. Surviving Mrs. Cause are a son, Danny L. Causey and his wife, Nancy, of Marion; a daughter, Joyce Bedell and her husband, Jim, of Marion; her grandchildren, Stoney Turbeville and his wife, Jennifer, Dana Causey and Danny Lloyd Causey; a great-grandchild, Mason Turbeville; a sister-in-law, Arlene Godbold of Myrtle Beach; her nieces and nephews, Dr. Sarah Machowski, Cheryl Locke, Deborah Ropp, Rett Godbold and Walter Godbold and several great nieces and great nephews. Mrs. Causey was predeceased by a brother, Dr. Clyde E. Godbold Sr. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9th at Marion Baptist Church, with the Rev. Daniel Inabinet officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery, directed by Smith-Collins Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to McLeod Hospice House, 1203 E. Cheves St., Florence, SC 29506 Visitation will be held Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. at Smith-Collins Funeral Home.

MARION — Mrs. Lucille Margaret Williford, 80, died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006, at McLeod Regional Medical Center after an illness. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Rose Hill Cemetery. The services will be directed by Smith-Collins Funeral Home. Mrs. Williford was born Aug. 22, 1925, in Marion County, a daughter of the late John Kelly Blackburn Sr. and the late Julia Temple Blackburn. She retired from Russell Stover Candy Co. Mrs. Williford was of the Baptist faith. Surviving Mrs. Williford are a sister, Mary Alice Lane of Marion; two nieces; a nephew; a great-niece; and a great-nephew. Mrs. Williford was predeceased by a son, Jimmy Martin, and two brothers. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Smith-Collins Funeral Home.

Go to the Pee Dee Genealogy Society's web page at <http://scgen.org/peedee.htm> for details on how to order, price etc under publications available. Helen > From: [email protected] > Date: 2006/02/07 Tue PM 02:37:17 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SCMARION-L] SELLERS BOOK OF 1902 > > Hello, Can you tell me the price of this book? Thanks > > > ==== SCMARION Mailing List ==== > For changes to your subscription, visit: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/marion.html > >

Hello, Can you tell me the price of this book? Thanks

DILLON — Services for Janice Marie Winkeler will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006, in Pyerian Baptist Church, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Cooper Funeral Home. Mrs. Winkeler, 64, died Monday, Feb. 6, in McLeod Medical Center-Dillon. Born April 18, 1941, in Marion County, she was the daughter of Thomas M. Jackson and Vernon Brogdon Jackson. She was a member of Pyerian Baptist Church and was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, Robert A. Winkeler of Dillon; sons, Mark and Denise Winkeler, Robin and Elaine Winkeler, Alan Winkeler, Kevin and Tammy Winkeler and David and Amy Winkeler, all of Dillon; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Jackson of Dillon; sister, Betty Ann and Gary Vaughn of Dillon; brothers, Tim and Charlotte Jackson and Tony and Brenda Jackson, both of Dillon; and grandchildren, Matthew, Molly, Jackson, Emily, Justin, Adrienne, Megan and Ethan. Mrs. Winkeler was preceded in death by her grandson, Markie Winkeler. Memorials may be made to Dillon Camp of Gideons, P.O. Box 111, Dillon, SC 29536 or to Pyerian Baptist Church, 2813 Pyerian Road, Dillon, SC 29536.

FORK — Mrs. Doris Tyler Sawyer, 64, wife of Carroll E. Gene Sawyer, died Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006, at Carolinas Hospital System in Florence after an illness. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Chapel of Cox-Collins Funeral Home, with the Rev. Charles Tarte officiating. Burial will follow in Mayers Memorial Park Cemetery, directed by Cox-Collins Funeral Home. Mrs. Sawyer was born Aug. 21, 1941, in Marion County, a daughter of the late Roy and Kathleen Turner Tyler. She had retired from Sunny Acres Nursing Home. Mrs. Sawyer was a member of Fork Baptist Church. Surviving Mrs. Sawyer in addition to her husband of the home are her daughters, Angie Hayes of Fork, Julia Watford of Fork, Genia Rowell of Fork and Myrtle Jones of Aynor; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and her sisters and brothers, Edna Collins of Mullins, Annie Tyler of Lincolnville, Pearl Causey of Lincolnville, Jean Stephens of Kalamazoo, Mich., Jayne (Louis) Pender of Fayetteville, N.C., Marie (Glenn) Lane of Fayetteville, N.C., Elex (Frances) Tyler of Coward, Billy (Kate) Tyler of Temple, Texas, Carl (Lauri) Tyler of Bona Vista, Calif., Jimmy (Glenda) Tyler of St. Pauls, N.C., Doug (Hope) Collins of Hope Mills, N.C., James (Barbara) Tyler of Raleigh, N.C., and Kenny (Pat) Tyler of St. Pauls, N.C. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Cox-Collins Funeral Home.

LATTA — Mrs. Virginia S. Cottingham, 77, died Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006, at Carolinas Hospital System in Florence. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Kannadays Funeral Home in Dillon. The funeral will be 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Latta Baptist Church, with burial at Greenlawn Cemetery, directed by Kannadays Funeral Home of Dillon. Mrs. Cottingham was born Nov. 5, 1928, in Dillon, a daughter of the late Egbert Lamar and Eva Mae Webster Smith. She was the widow of Royce A. Cottingham. She was a member of Latta Baptist Church, and was the teacher of Harriett Dew Sunday School Class and taught Sunday school at the Pines Nursing Home for many years. She was retired from the Dillon County Health Department Office of Vital Records. Mrs. Cottingham loved her husband, children, grandchildren and church family. Surviving are her sons, Royce A. (Eva Jo) Cottingham Jr. of Dillon and Thomas Glenn (Debbie) Cottingham of Marion; daughters, Cheryl C. (Bill) Stubbs and Beverly C. (Russell) Richardson, both of Florence, Kristie C. (Steve) Zander and Virginia C. (Mickey) Moody, both of Dillon, and Jeanna C. (Stan) Harrell of Timmonsville; sister, Mary (Ernie) Watts of Dillon; 19 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Latta Baptist Church or Gideons International.

The latest edition of Sellers book actually has an excellent index which not only has the name of the family but also the given names.

Mary,Do you have a Howell Seller in that Seller book?He was a revolutionary War soldier. Debra Maddox Wilson Greenback,Tn

CHARLESTON | Mr. John Oliver Hayes died Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006. Arrangements will be announced by Troy's Funeral Home of Mullins.

GOOSE CREEK | Ann Penelope Flowers DeMers, age 66, wife of the late Paul James DeMers, of Newcastle Loop, died Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006 at Trident Medical Center in Charleston. Mrs. DeMers was born in Horry County, a daughter of David Carroll Flowers and the late Bernice Hucks Flowers. Mrs. DeMers retired as a civilian computer specialist with the U.S. Navy. She was a volunteer with the Guardian Ad Litem program in Berkley County. Surviving in addition to her father of Mullins are one son, David James DeMers of Goose Creek; four grandchildren, Candice DeMers, Caitlin DeMers, Seth DeMers, and Luke DeMers; three sisters, Dinah Williams of Columbia, Linda Flowers of Conway, and Melia Berry of Marion. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday from Goldfinch Funeral Home, Conway Chapel with the Rev. William Tanner officiating. Burial will follow in Salem Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Sign a guest book at www. goldfinchfuneralhome.com or at MyrtleBeachOnline.com. Memorials may be sent to the charity of one's choice. Goldfinch Funeral Home, Conway Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

The Pee Dee Genealogy Society is selling the book. Check the Society's web page at http://scgen.org/peedee.htm Helen > > From: [email protected] > Date: 2006/02/05 Sun PM 09:12:30 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SCMARION-L] SELLERS BOOK OF 1902 > > I AM LUKY TO HAVE AN ORIGINAL WW SELLERS BOOK FROM 1902. IT IS NOT IN GOOD > CONDITION BUT I AM VERY PROUD OF IT. MY FAMILY WAS IN THE MARION AND DILLON > COUNTY AREA. I HAVE HEARD THAT A BOOK CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE MARION PUBLICK > LIBRARY. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK WITH THEM. YOU CAN SPEND HOURS AT A TIME > WITH THIS BOOK AND IT SEEMS LIKE MINUTES. > > MARY > > > ==== SCMARION Mailing List ==== > To search the SCMARION-L Archives: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=SCMARION > >

I AM LUKY TO HAVE AN ORIGINAL WW SELLERS BOOK FROM 1902. IT IS NOT IN GOOD CONDITION BUT I AM VERY PROUD OF IT. MY FAMILY WAS IN THE MARION AND DILLON COUNTY AREA. I HAVE HEARD THAT A BOOK CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE MARION PUBLICK LIBRARY. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK WITH THEM. YOU CAN SPEND HOURS AT A TIME WITH THIS BOOK AND IT SEEMS LIKE MINUTES. MARY

Many of the named surnames are mentioned in W.W. Sellers book, "History of Marion County South Carolina", which was originally published in 1902. There is a Marion Avant, Baker Wiggins, Shaw, and a long list of Civil War participants. I found this book very helpful when I was researching my Godbold family. Sellers mentions very few dates and it is sometimes difficult to tie families together with a time line. I found the census records a big help in putting a date or age to my families. To Sellers the "war" was the Civil War. Reprints of the book can be had but I do not know the latest publisher. Perhaps someone else can supply that information. Allene -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:07 PM Subject: [SCMARION-L] Avant Connections >I am researching a letter written from Charleston, SC Feb. 22, 1861. The >letter mentions Marion and wanting to get back home to Marion. He also mentions >the Marion Volunteers who have enlisted for six months and are waiting to >attack Ft. Sumter. I believe the writer's unit to be Co. E of Gregg's 1st >Battalion. The friends and family that are mentioned are: Mrs. Martha E. Rowell, >Miss Betsy Odom who is engaged to Mr. Sam Shaw, Miss Sally Odom who is engaged >to Mr. Sam Wall, "old cousin" Tommy Shaw and cousin Becky, Baker Wiggins, >John D. Shaw, Cage Wiggins, "little" Tommy Shaw, & Henry Shaw. The signature >appears to be M.C.C. Avant but I am not positive. I have found several of these >people in the 1860 census. The Odom girls reside with an Avant and there are >Wiggins and Shaws in close proximity. I have not found anything that could be >a match for the writer except an M.G. Avant. Does anyone have any of these >names in their Marion County research? >Thanks! >Kevin Lassen > > >==== SCMARION Mailing List ==== >Dillon County SCGenWeb site: >http://sciway3.net/proctor/dillon/ >

How to Find The Digitized Images? Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU at http://www.lib.byu.edu/ on their home page, follow the links "Find Other Materials/Electronic/On Line Collections at BYU". Click on the "Text Collections" tab and select the "Family History Archive" from the list of collections that are displayed. You would then normally want to use the "Search All" feature with the "Search Full Text" box checked, although the "Advanced Search" will allow very high-powered searches that will allow certain phrases to be searched for and other words to be used to exclude potential hits. As you make selections from the "hits" that are displayed, you will need to use the "Click Here to View Item" button near the top of the screen to display the actual image of the page. You can page through the entire document using the index displayed on the left side of the screen. Each page may be printed after being viewed. One interesting sidelight is, when you are at the first web page for the Family History Archive (the page that lets you begin a search), click on the "Browse the Collection" button. This will display every Family History book that has been digitized and is available in the collection. You can scroll through this list much the same as if you were walking up and down the stacks at the library. At the top of the first page of the search results, it displays the number of hits, which (in this case) is the number of books in the collection. If you keep track of this number, you can get a pretty good idea of how fast they are adding titles to the collection as you revisit the web site from time to time. I think you will want to visit this site often as the collection grows!"

I could have sworn I sent an email before this one. Incase it lost here the link to the American Life History Project from 1936 1940 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project <../wpaintro/wpalife.html> of the Federal Writers' Project <../wpaintro/wpafwp.html> for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts. ahunt wrote: > Here is one example of the text found on the link I gave at the > library of congress. > > Approximately 3308 Words > > SOUTH CAROLINA WRITERS' PROJECT > > Life History > > TITLE: THE SKIPPERS > > Date of First Writing January 19, 1939 > > Name Of /Person Interviewed Mr. Willie Marlowe (White) Mrs. Sally > Marlowe (White) > > Fictitious Names Mr. Willie Skipper Mrs. Sally Skipper > > Address Route #2, Marion County > > Place Marion County, S.C. > > Occupation Tenant Farmer > > Name of Writer Annie Ruth Davis > > Name of Reviser State Office > > > > [email protected] wrote: > >> How to Find The Digitized Images? >> >> Go to the web site of the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU at >> http://www.lib.byu.edu/ on their home page, follow the links "Find >> Other Materials/Electronic/On Line Collections at BYU". Click on the >> "Text Collections" tab and select the "Family History Archive" from >> the list of collections that are displayed. >> >> You would then normally want to use the "Search All" feature with >> the "Search Full Text" box checked, although the "Advanced Search" >> will allow very high-powered searches that will allow certain >> phrases to be searched for and other words to be used to exclude >> potential hits. As you make selections from the "hits" that are >> displayed, you will need to use the "Click Here to View Item" button >> near the top of the screen to display the actual image of the page. >> You can page through the entire document using the index displayed >> on the left side of the screen. Each page may be printed after being >> viewed. >> >> One interesting sidelight is, when you are at the first web page for >> the Family History Archive (the page that lets you begin a search), >> click on the "Browse the Collection" button. This will display every >> Family History book that has been digitized and is available in the >> collection. >> >> You can scroll through this list much the same as if you were >> walking up and down the stacks at the library. At the top of the >> first page of the search results, it displays the number of hits, >> which (in this case) is the number of books in the collection. If >> you keep track of this number, you can get a pretty good idea of how >> fast they are adding titles to the collection as you revisit the web >> site from time to time. I think you will want to visit this site >> often as the collection grows!" >> >> >> ==== SCMARION Mailing List ==== >> SCGenWeb Main Page >> Links to all South Carolina counties and Special Projects >> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3837/ >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ==== SCMARION Mailing List ==== > Marion County SCGenWeb Queries: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~scmarion/ > > >