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Thank you so much for the leads Linda, I've seen one of these before but the other is new to me and has lots of sources listed so it may put me on the correct trail! Sue ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:41:12 -0600 From: "Linda Croft" <bclinda@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] Temperence Greer To: <scsparta@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <050701c84077$d94b3650$6601a8c0@your27e1513d96> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original 1850 Newberry Co SC lisys Susanna Greer 41, Temperance 21, John 19, Robert 17, Rachal 14, & Riser (female) 11. Several family trees posted on WorldConneect.com: One family tree posted shows her father as James Greer (his mother Rachel) and her mother as Susanna Ligon, born 1809 in TN. Go to http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jackietree&id=P2664969999 This posting shows married to Benjamin E Mason May 17 1832 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1466016&id=I63509578 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue & Jack" <jmcope@cox.net> To: <scsparta@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:08 PM Subject: [SCSPARTA] Temperence Greer >I am looking for about the parents of Temperence Greer. She was born in > Newberry County on Oct 25, 1828 and buried in Zoar Cemetery in Spartanburg > County on April 5, 1899. She married B E Mason about 1855. Any help with > this family would be greatly appreciated!! > > Sue Copeland at jmcope@cox.net

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1850 Newberry Co SC lisys Susanna Greer 41, Temperance 21, John 19, Robert 17, Rachal 14, & Riser (female) 11. Several family trees posted on WorldConneect.com: One family tree posted shows her father as James Greer (his mother Rachel) and her mother as Susanna Ligon, born 1809 in TN. Go to http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jackietree&id=P2664969999 This posting shows married to Benjamin E Mason May 17 1832 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1466016&id=I63509578 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue & Jack" <jmcope@cox.net> To: <scsparta@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:08 PM Subject: [SCSPARTA] Temperence Greer >I am looking for about the parents of Temperence Greer. She was born in > Newberry County on Oct 25, 1828 and buried in Zoar Cemetery in Spartanburg > County on April 5, 1899. She married B E Mason about 1855. Any help with > this family would be greatly appreciated!! > > Sue Copeland at jmcope@cox.net > > > Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb > Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

My 10 and 11 year old grandchildren gripe about having to clean their rooms! I cannot imagine children that age working in a mill every day. It breaks my heart. I wish I could give them retroactive Christmas gifts! Merry Christmas to all of you. Mickey Fournier -----Original Message----- From: scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ted and Freda Noble Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 4:06 PM To: nancie o; scsparta@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 Nancie, please don't be offended, but will you please remove my name and address from your mailing list. I, not only get your attachments, but then others forward them to me! Took 17 minutes for the last to download and I just don't have the time! Thank you! Freda >Spartanburg Herald , Dec. 13, 1908. > { I try not to post letters that have been posted before, but these >below have been, but worth seeing again ! } > >Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy, 13 years old, have no father or >mother, live with my sister, BIRTIE GOWAN. I want a train and a little >man, and a flying Jinny and a man on a horse, bananas, apple, candy, >and everything else that is good to eat that you have for a little >orphan boy. I work in the mill. Am not able to go to school, wish I >could. >Your good little boy, SOLOMON CLAYTON >--- >Dear Santa Claus: Will you please bring me a little train and a drum >and horn and some roman candles, firecrackers, a bum stick and candy >and oranges, apples and anything will be very much apreciated by your >little 12 year dolpher in the mill. >GARNER THOMAS >--- >Dear Santa Claus: Do please bring me a doll and tea set, a doll set of >furniture, a chair and apples, candy, walnuts, and some good books. Now >Santa don't think I am asking too much as I wish these so much and >without you bring them, I can't get them. I am 11 years old and stay >with my grandma and work in the mill. Run three on four sides. >Your good girl, MAUD GOWAN >--- >Dear Old Santa Claus : I want you to bring a doll set of furniture, a >bed, a safe, a doll, a stove, a table and chairs a piano, a cradle, a >broom. >So good-by, Santy, >Your little friend, ANNIE NOBLIN > P.S. I live on Forest street, Spartanburg. I am 11 years old and >work in the mill every day. >--- >Santa Claus: I am waiting for you. I am very glad to hear about you. >Santa Claus, old JOHN is so cross and HARRY and OLELE is good, but they >will not work. OLELE is good about sweeping the house. >Goodby, CHARLTON DILL >--- >Dear Old Santa Claus: I want you to bring me some firecrackers and >apples and candy. I want a knife and a saw and some raisins. And I want >you to bring ROSIE and little brother lots of Christmas too. >Yours truly, CHARLIE CALDWELL. >--- >Dear Santa Claus: Please Santa, will you come down here to Beaumont ? >LUTHER, TOM, ROY, SISTER, MARTHA, MAY, PEARL, FAY, Come down and see >us. Come down the chimley and bring apples candies and coconut, and >firecrackers and nuts and come to house number 130. Bring me some toys >and some roman cannon, as we are takin your paper. >Son of T.M. PACK at Beaumont Mills. >--- >nancie o. > Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb >Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Researching my Southern Families: Roberson/Robertson/Robinson,Bonner, Blakely,Wright, Sills, Thornton, Canterbury, Godbold, Solomon, Pate, Grice, Herron, Regan, Sims, Boles, Jones. Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Freda, I don't send to you anything....hope whom ever is passing them along will take note ! nancie

Nancie, please don't be offended, but will you please remove my name and address from your mailing list. I, not only get your attachments, but then others forward them to me! Took 17 minutes for the last to download and I just don't have the time! Thank you! Freda >Spartanburg Herald , Dec. 13, 1908. > { I try not to post letters that have been posted before, but these >below have been, but worth seeing again ! } > >Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy, 13 years old, have no father or >mother, live with my sister, BIRTIE GOWAN. I want a train and a >little man, and a flying Jinny and a man on a horse, bananas, apple, >candy, and everything else that is good to eat that you have for a >little orphan boy. I work in the mill. Am not able to go to school, >wish I could. >Your good little boy, SOLOMON CLAYTON >--- >Dear Santa Claus: Will you please bring me a little train and a drum >and horn and some roman candles, firecrackers, a bum stick and candy >and oranges, apples and anything will be very much apreciated by >your little 12 year dolpher in the mill. >GARNER THOMAS >--- >Dear Santa Claus: Do please bring me a doll and tea set, a doll set >of furniture, a chair and apples, candy, walnuts, and some good >books. Now Santa don't think I am asking too much as I wish these so >much and without you bring them, I can't get them. I am 11 years old >and stay with my grandma and work in the mill. Run three on four >sides. >Your good girl, MAUD GOWAN >--- >Dear Old Santa Claus : I want you to bring a doll set of furniture, >a bed, a safe, a doll, a stove, a table and chairs a piano, a >cradle, a broom. >So good-by, Santy, >Your little friend, ANNIE NOBLIN > P.S. I live on Forest street, Spartanburg. I am 11 years old and >work in the mill every day. >--- >Santa Claus: I am waiting for you. I am very glad to hear about you. >Santa Claus, old JOHN is so cross and HARRY and OLELE is good, but >they will not work. OLELE is good about sweeping the house. >Goodby, CHARLTON DILL >--- >Dear Old Santa Claus: I want you to bring me some firecrackers and >apples and candy. I want a knife and a saw and some raisins. And I >want you to bring ROSIE and little brother lots of Christmas too. >Yours truly, CHARLIE CALDWELL. >--- >Dear Santa Claus: Please Santa, will you come down here to Beaumont >? LUTHER, TOM, ROY, SISTER, MARTHA, MAY, PEARL, FAY, Come down and >see us. Come down the chimley and bring apples candies and coconut, >and firecrackers and nuts and come to house number 130. Bring me >some toys and some roman cannon, as we are takin your paper. >Son of T.M. PACK at Beaumont Mills. >--- >nancie o. > Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb >Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Researching my Southern Families: Roberson/Robertson/Robinson,Bonner, Blakely,Wright, Sills, Thornton, Canterbury, Godbold, Solomon, Pate, Grice, Herron, Regan, Sims, Boles, Jones.

Janet, I too enjoy reading your mail, but I just don't have the time to download your attachments. Would you please remove my address from your mailing list. I hope you aren't offended by this. Took seventeen minutes to download the last letter! Freda >Janet, > >I just love these letters to Santa too. Thank you for posting all these >good things that make us smile and laugh. Merry Christmas to you. > >Joan Stewart, Tallahassee, Fl > >-----Original Message----- >From: scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Moore >Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 5:09 AM >To: scsparta@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 > >Hi Everyone: >Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. I just love these >letters to Santa, they always make me laugh! Thank you Nancie! > >Janet > >-----Original Message----- >From: scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com] >On Behalf Of nancie o >Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:47 PM >To: SCSPARTA@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 > >Spartanburg Herald Sunday, December 13, 1908. > >Dear Old Santa Claus: You don't know how glad I am that Christmas is >coming soon. I am a little girl 9 years old and live on top of the hill >just above Drayton Mill village. I have 5 brothers and 3 sisters, 4 >brothers at home and 2 sisters. One of my sisters is married and one of >my brothers is done grown and left home . Three of my brothers and one >of my sisters and myself go to school. We all like our teacher. I would >like for Santa to bring me a little piano and a doll and a little bed >for my doll and a tea set and a stove. I guess I can make a table for my >tea set. >Good-bye Santa, Yours as ever, >NELLIE BELLE MOON >--- >Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll, I want a gold pin, I want a doll-bed >and a doll suit, a red one and a bureau, a doll wagon and hat for >myself. Since last Christmas DR. DEAN has brought us a little new >brother and I hope you will not forget him. Just any little thing will >do for him that you could spare, as he is just one week old. Santa I am >going to school now, and am in the first grade. >Your little friends, >FRANCES JEFFERIES, North Church Street. >--- >Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl 8 years old. I want you to >bring me some nice presents Christmas, something you think would be nice >for little girls of my age. I would like to get a bracelet, a large >doll, one that will go to sleep and some candy and fruit. Dear Santa, I >am going to be a good little girl. >Your friend, >VERDIE ANDERSON, Lockhart. >--- >Dear Santa Claus: I kissed you last Christmas and I am a good boy and >bring me a shoot stopper gun and a drum and a big wagon and a horn and >scoot cuttie and a heap of nuts and candy and a pair of gloves, 5 books >and Little Red Riden Hood . Bring me some of everything you have got. >Kiss Mrs. >Santa Claus for me. >GEORGE COFIELD, JR. >--- >Dear Santa Claus: We are wanting a bureau and a doll and a wagon, candy >nuts, oranges and anything else good you can spare. >JENNIE LAW, JOHN LAW, ANNA LAW, MARGARET LAW. >--- >Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a bicycle and a watch and some >fireworks and a lot of nuts, candy and fruit. >CARL LANFORD >------------- >nancie o. - hope you enjoy these as much as I do ! > Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb >Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb >Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this transmission >is legally privileged and confidential, intended only for the use of >the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message >is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any >dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is >strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, >please notify us immediately by calling us toll free at (888) >522-4912 and then deleting the message. Thank you. > > Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb >Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Researching my Southern Families: Roberson/Robertson/Robinson,Bonner, Blakely,Wright, Sills, Thornton, Canterbury, Godbold, Solomon, Pate, Grice, Herron, Regan, Sims, Boles, Jones.

Spartanburg Herald , Dec. 13, 1908. { I try not to post letters that have been posted before, but these below have been, but worth seeing again ! } Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy, 13 years old, have no father or mother, live with my sister, BIRTIE GOWAN. I want a train and a little man, and a flying Jinny and a man on a horse, bananas, apple, candy, and everything else that is good to eat that you have for a little orphan boy. I work in the mill. Am not able to go to school, wish I could. Your good little boy, SOLOMON CLAYTON --- Dear Santa Claus: Will you please bring me a little train and a drum and horn and some roman candles, firecrackers, a bum stick and candy and oranges, apples and anything will be very much apreciated by your little 12 year dolpher in the mill. GARNER THOMAS --- Dear Santa Claus: Do please bring me a doll and tea set, a doll set of furniture, a chair and apples, candy, walnuts, and some good books. Now Santa don't think I am asking too much as I wish these so much and without you bring them, I can't get them. I am 11 years old and stay with my grandma and work in the mill. Run three on four sides. Your good girl, MAUD GOWAN --- Dear Old Santa Claus : I want you to bring a doll set of furniture, a bed, a safe, a doll, a stove, a table and chairs a piano, a cradle, a broom. So good-by, Santy, Your little friend, ANNIE NOBLIN P.S. I live on Forest street, Spartanburg. I am 11 years old and work in the mill every day. --- Santa Claus: I am waiting for you. I am very glad to hear about you. Santa Claus, old JOHN is so cross and HARRY and OLELE is good, but they will not work. OLELE is good about sweeping the house. Goodby, CHARLTON DILL --- Dear Old Santa Claus: I want you to bring me some firecrackers and apples and candy. I want a knife and a saw and some raisins. And I want you to bring ROSIE and little brother lots of Christmas too. Yours truly, CHARLIE CALDWELL. --- Dear Santa Claus: Please Santa, will you come down here to Beaumont ? LUTHER, TOM, ROY, SISTER, MARTHA, MAY, PEARL, FAY, Come down and see us. Come down the chimley and bring apples candies and coconut, and firecrackers and nuts and come to house number 130. Bring me some toys and some roman cannon, as we are takin your paper. Son of T.M. PACK at Beaumont Mills. --- nancie o.

Hi Joan: The Santa letters are posted by the wonderful Nancie O'Sullivan who uses her time and talents transcribing these wonderful old newspapers and letters to share with us. Nancie is a blessing always throughout the year and her efforts are hugely appreciated by all of us. I am especially touched by the children's letters that ask for Santa to bring gifts to their younger brothers and sisters or other family members. A child's faith in Santa is so enormous... I was just reading one where the child asked for a piano...hmmm...Santa must have a magic piano shrinking ring or something if he is going to pull that down the chimney! Ho, Ho, Ho! Janet -----Original Message----- From: Stewart, Joan [mailto:joan.stewart@floridaea.org] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 3:43 PM To: janetmoore@prodigy.net; scsparta@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 Janet, I just love these letters to Santa too. Thank you for posting all these good things that make us smile and laugh. Merry Christmas to you. Joan Stewart, Tallahassee, Fl -----Original Message----- From: scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Moore Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 5:09 AM To: scsparta@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 Hi Everyone: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. I just love these letters to Santa, they always make me laugh! Thank you Nancie! Janet -----Original Message----- From: scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of nancie o Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:47 PM To: SCSPARTA@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 Spartanburg Herald Sunday, December 13, 1908. Dear Old Santa Claus: You don't know how glad I am that Christmas is coming soon. I am a little girl 9 years old and live on top of the hill just above Drayton Mill village. I have 5 brothers and 3 sisters, 4 brothers at home and 2 sisters. One of my sisters is married and one of my brothers is done grown and left home . Three of my brothers and one of my sisters and myself go to school. We all like our teacher. I would like for Santa to bring me a little piano and a doll and a little bed for my doll and a tea set and a stove. I guess I can make a table for my tea set. Good-bye Santa, Yours as ever, NELLIE BELLE MOON --- Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll, I want a gold pin, I want a doll-bed and a doll suit, a red one and a bureau, a doll wagon and hat for myself. Since last Christmas DR. DEAN has brought us a little new brother and I hope you will not forget him. Just any little thing will do for him that you could spare, as he is just one week old. Santa I am going to school now, and am in the first grade. Your little friends, FRANCES JEFFERIES, North Church Street. --- Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl 8 years old. I want you to bring me some nice presents Christmas, something you think would be nice for little girls of my age. I would like to get a bracelet, a large doll, one that will go to sleep and some candy and fruit. Dear Santa, I am going to be a good little girl. Your friend, VERDIE ANDERSON, Lockhart. --- Dear Santa Claus: I kissed you last Christmas and I am a good boy and bring me a shoot stopper gun and a drum and a big wagon and a horn and scoot cuttie and a heap of nuts and candy and a pair of gloves, 5 books and Little Red Riden Hood . Bring me some of everything you have got. Kiss Mrs. Santa Claus for me. GEORGE COFIELD, JR. --- Dear Santa Claus: We are wanting a bureau and a doll and a wagon, candy nuts, oranges and anything else good you can spare. JENNIE LAW, JOHN LAW, ANNA LAW, MARGARET LAW. --- Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a bicycle and a watch and some fireworks and a lot of nuts, candy and fruit. CARL LANFORD ------------- nancie o. - hope you enjoy these as much as I do ! Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this transmission is legally privileged and confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, please notify us immediately by calling us toll free at (888) 522-4912 and then deleting the message. Thank you.

Janet, I just love these letters to Santa too. Thank you for posting all these good things that make us smile and laugh. Merry Christmas to you. Joan Stewart, Tallahassee, Fl -----Original Message----- From: scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Moore Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 5:09 AM To: scsparta@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 Hi Everyone: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. I just love these letters to Santa, they always make me laugh! Thank you Nancie! Janet -----Original Message----- From: scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of nancie o Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:47 PM To: SCSPARTA@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 Spartanburg Herald Sunday, December 13, 1908. Dear Old Santa Claus: You don't know how glad I am that Christmas is coming soon. I am a little girl 9 years old and live on top of the hill just above Drayton Mill village. I have 5 brothers and 3 sisters, 4 brothers at home and 2 sisters. One of my sisters is married and one of my brothers is done grown and left home . Three of my brothers and one of my sisters and myself go to school. We all like our teacher. I would like for Santa to bring me a little piano and a doll and a little bed for my doll and a tea set and a stove. I guess I can make a table for my tea set. Good-bye Santa, Yours as ever, NELLIE BELLE MOON --- Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll, I want a gold pin, I want a doll-bed and a doll suit, a red one and a bureau, a doll wagon and hat for myself. Since last Christmas DR. DEAN has brought us a little new brother and I hope you will not forget him. Just any little thing will do for him that you could spare, as he is just one week old. Santa I am going to school now, and am in the first grade. Your little friends, FRANCES JEFFERIES, North Church Street. --- Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl 8 years old. I want you to bring me some nice presents Christmas, something you think would be nice for little girls of my age. I would like to get a bracelet, a large doll, one that will go to sleep and some candy and fruit. Dear Santa, I am going to be a good little girl. Your friend, VERDIE ANDERSON, Lockhart. --- Dear Santa Claus: I kissed you last Christmas and I am a good boy and bring me a shoot stopper gun and a drum and a big wagon and a horn and scoot cuttie and a heap of nuts and candy and a pair of gloves, 5 books and Little Red Riden Hood . Bring me some of everything you have got. Kiss Mrs. Santa Claus for me. GEORGE COFIELD, JR. --- Dear Santa Claus: We are wanting a bureau and a doll and a wagon, candy nuts, oranges and anything else good you can spare. JENNIE LAW, JOHN LAW, ANNA LAW, MARGARET LAW. --- Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a bicycle and a watch and some fireworks and a lot of nuts, candy and fruit. CARL LANFORD ------------- nancie o. - hope you enjoy these as much as I do ! Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this transmission is legally privileged and confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, please notify us immediately by calling us toll free at (888) 522-4912 and then deleting the message. Thank you.

Spartanburg Herald, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1916. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 6 years old and go to school. I want you to bring me a raincoat to wear to school, some apples, candy, oranges, bananas, nuts , raisins. Don't bring me a doll, I have 4. Don't forget my mama and papa. Bring my mama a locket. Bring me everything you bring my friend MYRTLE. With Love, LOIS PAGE --- My Dear Santa Claus : My name is BILLIE MILLER, or it is my nickname. I want you to bring me a small piano, carriage, a doll, stove, wagon and bicycle, candles and fruit. Lovingly, BILLIE MILLER --- Dear Old Santa Claus: Please come Xmas and bring me a piano and a box of cologne and a doll and a box of handkerchiefs. Some apples, oranges and candy. I am a little girl 4 years old. Your little friend, MARY PERKINS --- Dear Santa Claus: Please do come to see us Christmas. I am anxious to see you. Santa bring me a bicycle, knife, horn, boy drum, and a little wagon, a tablet and a pencil. Santa bring me lots of fruits , nuts, and candy, fireworks, toys. Santa do come to see me. Your best friend, GLENN WYATT P.S. Santa don't forget my little sister and brother. My sister's name is ANNIE MAY and my brother's name is CARL. ANNIE MAY wants you to bring her a doll , a tea set, two yards of ribbon, a tablet and a pencil, fruits, of all kind. And then, Santa, don't forget CARL. Bring him a little wagon, a little dog, a Jack in the Box. Baby, Carl, and Annie May Wyatt. --- Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl in the fourth grade. I go to school every day and study hard. I want you to bring me a little doll hat, a little trunk and a bracelet, some candy and fruit. I hope you won't be killed ! Your friend, EVA GOODWIN --- Dear Santa Claus : I hope you are well. I am having a good time. I am going to give the poor children something Friday. I bought all of my presents yesterday. I want you to bring me a bicycle and a watch and some books and some candy and some nuts. I wish you a happy Christmas. Your friend, ABRAM STEELE --- My Dear Santa: I am a little boy 4 years old. I came from Georgia about two months ago. I thought I would let you know where to find me this year. Now I will tell you what I want. I want a doll to give to sister, a billygoat with a black beard, a stopper gun, candy, fruits. Bring AUNT REBECCA a big stopper-gun. Your friend, NORMAN LEATHERWOOD --- Dear Santa Claus: I am little boy 8 years old. I still love that name, Santa Claus. Santa, I go to school every day and like it fine. Now santa bring me a little automobile and a bicycle with mud guards on it. Now Santa please don't forget me. Your best friend, FRED LEROY BURNETT P.S. Santa don't forget my sister. She wants a Jack in the Box and a doll, sewing , teaset, a set of vases, doll's fur and muff. Bring her fruits, candies, skyrockets, raisins. Please come this way, only 8 miles up here. So we are expecting to see you. Your little friend, LEILA BURNETT --- nancie o.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ridgerunner199 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southcarolina.counties.spartanburg/2981.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi ,I was wondering if you could e-mail me a copy of Matthew Cooper's will and I would love to share information on the Fondren family as my mother was a Fondren and I have quite a lot of information on them.I am also related to the coopers as my gggrandfather Albert Fondren married Mary Cooper and Albert's sister Lucinda Fondren married Dillard Cooper. my e-mail is ridgerunner@internet.is. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

These letters are priceless!! Brings back lots of Christmas memories. Thank you, nancieo for sharing them.

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Hi Everyone: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. I just love these letters to Santa, they always make me laugh! Thank you Nancie! Janet -----Original Message----- From: scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:scsparta-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of nancie o Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:47 PM To: SCSPARTA@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCSPARTA] Santa Letters 1908 Spartanburg Herald Sunday, December 13, 1908. Dear Old Santa Claus: You don't know how glad I am that Christmas is coming soon. I am a little girl 9 years old and live on top of the hill just above Drayton Mill village. I have 5 brothers and 3 sisters, 4 brothers at home and 2 sisters. One of my sisters is married and one of my brothers is done grown and left home . Three of my brothers and one of my sisters and myself go to school. We all like our teacher. I would like for Santa to bring me a little piano and a doll and a little bed for my doll and a tea set and a stove. I guess I can make a table for my tea set. Good-bye Santa, Yours as ever, NELLIE BELLE MOON --- Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll, I want a gold pin, I want a doll-bed and a doll suit, a red one and a bureau, a doll wagon and hat for myself. Since last Christmas DR. DEAN has brought us a little new brother and I hope you will not forget him. Just any little thing will do for him that you could spare, as he is just one week old. Santa I am going to school now, and am in the first grade. Your little friends, FRANCES JEFFERIES, North Church Street. --- Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl 8 years old. I want you to bring me some nice presents Christmas, something you think would be nice for little girls of my age. I would like to get a bracelet, a large doll, one that will go to sleep and some candy and fruit. Dear Santa, I am going to be a good little girl. Your friend, VERDIE ANDERSON, Lockhart. --- Dear Santa Claus: I kissed you last Christmas and I am a good boy and bring me a shoot stopper gun and a drum and a big wagon and a horn and scoot cuttie and a heap of nuts and candy and a pair of gloves, 5 books and Little Red Riden Hood . Bring me some of everything you have got. Kiss Mrs. Santa Claus for me. GEORGE COFIELD, JR. --- Dear Santa Claus: We are wanting a bureau and a doll and a wagon, candy nuts, oranges and anything else good you can spare. JENNIE LAW, JOHN LAW, ANNA LAW, MARGARET LAW. --- Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a bicycle and a watch and some fireworks and a lot of nuts, candy and fruit. CARL LANFORD ------------- nancie o. - hope you enjoy these as much as I do ! Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Spartanburg Herald Sunday, December 13, 1908. Dear Old Santa Claus: You don't know how glad I am that Christmas is coming soon. I am a little girl 9 years old and live on top of the hill just above Drayton Mill village. I have 5 brothers and 3 sisters, 4 brothers at home and 2 sisters. One of my sisters is married and one of my brothers is done grown and left home . Three of my brothers and one of my sisters and myself go to school. We all like our teacher. I would like for Santa to bring me a little piano and a doll and a little bed for my doll and a tea set and a stove. I guess I can make a table for my tea set. Good-bye Santa, Yours as ever, NELLIE BELLE MOON --- Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll, I want a gold pin, I want a doll-bed and a doll suit, a red one and a bureau, a doll wagon and hat for myself. Since last Christmas DR. DEAN has brought us a little new brother and I hope you will not forget him. Just any little thing will do for him that you could spare, as he is just one week old. Santa I am going to school now, and am in the first grade. Your little friends, FRANCES JEFFERIES, North Church Street. --- Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl 8 years old. I want you to bring me some nice presents Christmas, something you think would be nice for little girls of my age. I would like to get a bracelet, a large doll, one that will go to sleep and some candy and fruit. Dear Santa, I am going to be a good little girl. Your friend, VERDIE ANDERSON, Lockhart. --- Dear Santa Claus: I kissed you last Christmas and I am a good boy and bring me a shoot stopper gun and a drum and a big wagon and a horn and scoot cuttie and a heap of nuts and candy and a pair of gloves, 5 books and Little Red Riden Hood . Bring me some of everything you have got. Kiss Mrs. Santa Claus for me. GEORGE COFIELD, JR. --- Dear Santa Claus: We are wanting a bureau and a doll and a wagon, candy nuts, oranges and anything else good you can spare. JENNIE LAW, JOHN LAW, ANNA LAW, MARGARET LAW. --- Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a bicycle and a watch and some fireworks and a lot of nuts, candy and fruit. CARL LANFORD ------------- nancie o. - hope you enjoy these as much as I do !

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING It is only one week until old Santa Claus will come around and visit the children through the town He will bring them nuts, raisins and candy, and will fill the stockings that are hanging handy, He will start early in the night so that he may get through by daylight. When on Christmas day he will take his rest. and watch the children run and play and skip and do their best, Old Santa Claus is a good friend, and all the children like to welcome him. JOHN S. ELDER. --------------- My Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl about 6 years of age. I want a nice doll, candy, apples, raisins, and a lot of other good things to eat Christmas. Now please don't forget me. I live on North Church street. I want you to hurry and come to see me. So goodby, JANIE PARRIS, Spartanburg -- Dear Santa Claus: I want you to bring me one rifle, one tricycle, one horn, one drum, one french harp, one dozen apples, one traction engine, one dozen oranges, 2 pounds of raisins, one rubber ball, 5 pounds nails, 5 bunches firecrackers, 20 roman candles, one dozen tangerines, one cap shooter, one rag doll for SUNNY, one new cap for Sunny, one rattler, one nice little wagon for SUNNY, one knife with chain for MILAM. Your friend, MILAM F. WILLIAMS, Jonesville. -- Dear , Good Old Santa Claus: I will write as I want so many things and I am a little tiny girl 5 years old. Please bring me a doll that can open and shut its eyes, with a red cloak on, and shoes and stockings and please bring me a green hat with a red tip on it, for I have been wearing a little skeedee hat. Bring me a fur and muff and candy, oranges, apples, bananas, and a bum stick and anything else you have got to spare. Please bring me a pair of vases. As ever your little girl, ANNIE WOOTEN , 114 Oliver street. -- Dear Santa Claus: I will write, as I would like to have something too. Please bring me a black hat with a white feather on it, a doll and a doll carriage, fur and a muff and a bracelet. Please don't forget my little sister, LULA. Bring her a doll , for she will want mine and bring her a chair to sit in and bring us both fruits of all kinds. >From a little girl 5 years old. By-by Santa. TILDA PRESLEY, Spartanburg. -- Dear Santa Claus: Will you please bring us a horse and wagon and childs [ girl ] cap, and a teddy bear, some candy, apples, nigger toes, bananas. I am a little shut-in and 4 years old, and can't walk. MADALINE MOSELY, Spartanburg. -- Dear Santa Claus: We have moved from Barnwell to Spartanburg, 130 North Liberty street. And please bring me a little train that has a switch and 4 packs of firecrackers and a little trolley car , a drum, and pop gun and put in all the fruit in my stocking. Good-by Santa Claus, My name is WILL LANGLEY. -- Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 4 years old. I am visiting my grandmama but I live with my mama and papa in Newberry. Please bring me a drum and a horn, a jack-in-the-box and a lot of other things. Lovingly, WALTER WADSLEY ANDERSON. -- Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me some of everything please. Please send me the bear up in the tree what the man shoots, and some horses in the stable and some hay what they's eatin' and a kickin' mule, a horn, and some marbles, and a doll, and a teddy bear, and a stove and pop gun and a train and a velocipede. Please bring my little baby brother some rattlers. His name is GEORGE DEAN JOHNSON. EDWIN WALLACE JOHNSON, JR., Spartanburg. ------------- more to come..... nancie o. - share, don't sell.

I am looking for about the parents of Temperence Greer. She was born in Newberry County on Oct 25, 1828 and buried in Zoar Cemetery in Spartanburg County on April 5, 1899. She married B E Mason about 1855. Any help with this family would be greatly appreciated!! Sue Copeland at jmcope@cox.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: eturner60 Surnames: Blackwood , McMillin Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southcarolina.counties.spartanburg/2999.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Clete, Theron is my GG grandfather. What can I help you with on the Blackwood/ McMillin part of the family that ended up in Greene County? My sister, Linda, is the family tree person in our family and I'm sure she'd love to exchange information with you. Elizabeth Blackwood Turner Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.