Hello all. My apologies for any who get this long note twice, as I'm posting it to two lists. "The Kennemer Book - A Great American Family" by Woody Anderson Kelley includes an extract of a court case about a land dispute between William H. Kennemore et al and Elias Kennemore et al. The extract is from a Supreme Court of SC ruling or hearing on 3-11-1887, on an appeal from the Court of Common Pleas Pickens County. I made it to the SC Archives for the SC Genealogical Society Summer Workshop last month, and I did some looking to try to find the original case as well as the appeal. The Archives doesn't have the actual Common Pleas court papers, but they did have the Pickens County Common Pleas Journals on microfilm # D1186, which included the timeframe of the original case. At the beginning of this microfilm roll, there is an alphabetical listing, and in that list I found the following entry: Kennemore W.H. vs Elias E. Kennemore et al .231.231.139. | 38 There was no explanation of what these numbers in the index mean, but on printed page 139 of the Common Pleas Journal Pickens County, SC (29) Sept Term 1886, I found the case. I did not find anything on pages 231 or 38. From my notes, here's some of what I found: "William H. Kennemore et al Plaintiffs v E E Kennemore et al Defts it is decreed that there was a valid and binding parcel partition between Moses Kennemore and George Kennemore in the Fall of 1859 of the land conveyed to them in Jan. 1859 by Lott Kennemore and referred to in the complaint, and that said partition was consummated by the sale of his part by Moses and the possession of his part by George. It is further adjudged and decreed that all of the land deeded by Lott Kennemore to his said two sons, Moses & George, except the two tracts deeded by Moses to Milton Mauldin on the nineteenth of September 1859, George & Lott Kennemore joining in the deed to perfect the title as shown by said deeds was in evidence fell to George & is libale to partition herein allotting to the defendant Elias E. Kennemore five-sevenths thereof as heir at law and purchaser, to the plaintiffs among them one seventh and to the defendants Judy Cantrell and ?Lucky? Phillips one seventh among them. ...." The good news is that this case gives me evidence that "my" Moses was indeed the son of Lott. The bad news is I couldn't find the appeal. I had the archivists pull the actual Supreme Court of Appeals Opinions book for 1882-1889 (their reference # S 216003). This book is a huge volume in which the clerk actually recorded the official opinions handed down by the Supreme Court of SC. This opinion book runs from stamped page 1, April Term 1882 with the first opinion filed May 27, 1992, through page 636, April Term 1889, opinion filed May 1, 1889. There is an index booklet inside this larger volume, and there was no Kennemore listed in the index (under any variant spelling that starts with C or K). Nonetheless, I manually looked through the actual opinion book from page 428 through the end, one page at a time, and I did NOT find any reference to an appeal of this Kennemore case from the Pickens Court of Common Pleas. As a matter of fact, I did not find any opinions at all dated March 11, 1887. So, I'm puzzled about the appeal mentioned in the Kelley Kennemer book. Has anyone else tried to find the original court records for the appeal to the Supreme Court mentioned in Kelley's book? If so, would you kindly provide the source citation so I could get copies of the appeal? Thanks in advance for any and all help. Judy