Hi Faye, I'm researching Courtney in the Sumter area, specifically Samuel Thomas Courtney, b. March 25, 1817 or 1818. I have not so far been able to confirm his parents. I'll be happy to share what I have with others researching the family. Ken Courtney On Saturday, January 15, 2000 10:23 PM, FLD [SMTP:fdy@gate.net] wrote: > Who is researching Courtney in the Sumter area? I know I have your address and info but as usual I can't locate it. I want to forward someone to you that has Courtney questions. > > Thanks > Faye > > > ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. > If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list > of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >

Cindy, Thanks so very much for your kind offer to photo Col. Benbow's gravestone! I have often gone to your SC webpages and am delighted that the rosters of the 23rd SCV are included there. My actual relationship to Colonel BENBOW is that of first cousin, three times removed. I do not believe that he ever married or had a family and, therefore, he has no direct line descendents... at least none I can find. I am making him a personal project of mine because I think he was quite a fascinating person, a brave leader, and that he deserves to be remembered. I was not aware of the "Henry Laurens Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans" that you say was commissioned last year. ...Can you recommend anyone associated with that group who I might correspond with? I did here from Windy, the archivist, who contacted me almost as soon as I posted this yesterday!.. and I'm just about to e-mail her now to order the material available at the archives. I sincerely appreciate your help with this request.. (and will happily reimburse for any film, processing, or mailing costs) Thanks again! Ann in Nashville, TN chernow2@mindspring.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Cynthia Ridgeway Parker <cindyparker@ftc-i.net> To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Colonel Henry Laurens BENBOW, CSA Manning, SC > Ann, > The next time that I go to Manning, I plan to take a photo of Col. > Benbow's gravestone. It will eventually be posted on the two pages that > I have with rosters of the 23rd SCV. I have photos somewhere of when the > Henry Laurens Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans was commissioned > last year, but I have to look for them. This was at the cemetery, at > Benbow's grave site. I should have taken a photo of his grave site then. > > Windy, who is the archivist, will mail out copies of things that she has > there in the archives. Just get in touch with her. Her email address is > on the Clarendon page. Just go to the Clarendon Archives list. In fact, > she is on this mailing list. > > She wants me to come over to Manning and do a book signing, so when > that's set up, I will get over to the cemetery and get the picture. I > can't promise when that will be. My cousin, Dee, and I are going to do > the book signing event together, and just have to get with Windy about > when they are open on a Saturday that both of us are available. > > Cindy > > ______________________________

I am trying to find out the tie between AMY HAMPTON (maiden name unknown) whose husband Richard died in 1803, and these families mentioned above. Amy and Richard apparently never had children before his death. Amy outlived him by 30 years. In her 1843 will she named the following people: Niece ELizabeth Lansdell (Landsdale?) Joshua A. Spears James M. Pitts Niece Amy Adelaide Spears Susannah Brunson Anderson A Spears Henry Spears Melbry Ann Norton James Clark Richard Hampton, Amy's husband, had a sister named ELizabeth who married Mason Spears, but this family removed to MS in the early 1800's long before Amy's will was written, and none of the names of their children match these names anyway. Richard's sister MARY married a Clark and had children Lucy and William. Perhaps this is James Clark. Perhaps these are relations through the brothers and sisters of AMY and not the Hamptons... Can anyone enlighten me? Regina Roper

Ann, The next time that I go to Manning, I plan to take a photo of Col. Benbow's gravestone. It will eventually be posted on the two pages that I have with rosters of the 23rd SCV. I have photos somewhere of when the Henry Laurens Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans was commissioned last year, but I have to look for them. This was at the cemetery, at Benbow's grave site. I should have taken a photo of his grave site then. Windy, who is the archivist, will mail out copies of things that she has there in the archives. Just get in touch with her. Her email address is on the Clarendon page. Just go to the Clarendon Archives list. In fact, she is on this mailing list. She wants me to come over to Manning and do a book signing, so when that's set up, I will get over to the cemetery and get the picture. I can't promise when that will be. My cousin, Dee, and I are going to do the book signing event together, and just have to get with Windy about when they are open on a Saturday that both of us are available. Cindy

Hey Ann, You need to get in touch with Windy Corbett, Archivist for the Clarendon County Archives. Her e-address is: fscorbett@ftc-i.net Dee

Who is researching Courtney in the Sumter area? I know I have your address and info but as usual I can't locate it. I want to forward someone to you that has Courtney questions. Thanks Faye

Hello, everyone: This is my first time posting here. I have been told by other researchers that : "Henry Laurens BENBOW started out as a Capt. commanding I Co. 23 Infantry (Sprott Guards) but by the end of the war he was a Colonel commanding the 23rd Inf Reg. He was wounded and captured at Five Forks Va. a few days before Lee surrendered, and while in the hospital he was visited by Lincoln. Colonel BENBOW is buried in the Manning cemetery and there is a picture of him and one of his gravestone in the Clarendon County Archives." I would very much like to have a copy of whatever material is available on him from the Clarendon County Archives. I already have one photo of him found in a book on the Civil War, but would love to have information on and/or photo of his burial site. Does anyone here visit those Archives? Would you be able to look for this info for me? (I'd be happy to reimburse for any expenses or exchange research favors here in Nashville.) If not, do the Archives accept requests for copies of materials, etc? Also, I understand that his father was Moses Martin BENBOW who was a lawyer, and served in the SC legislature. Any fellow BENBOW researchers here? I am descended from Moses Martin BENBOW's brother Evan BENBOW, b. 1818 SC, lived in AL. Would love to exchange information. Thanks, Ann Chernow Nashville, TN chernow2@mindspring.com

Andrina: I have been out of town for the last month and just returned home and found your query about the Jones cemetery off of US 521 between Sumter and Manning. I am descended from this Jones family and it is known in the family as the Anthony B. Jones Cemetery. I am not descended from Anthony Jones but from his brother Ludolphus B. Jones. Howard Jones that lives in New York is descended from Anthony and I have some information on the people that are buried there. Are you descended from the Jones family of William Brittian Jones? If you are contact me and maybe I can help you, because I have a large file on the Jones descendants. Bo Watts ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrina Womack" <andrina_womack@hotmail.com> To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 1999 3:36 PM Subject: [SCSUMTER-L] Re: SCSUMTER-D Digest V99 #211 > > > Hey, > > Does anybody know where the Jones family cemetary is? It's supposed to be > south of sumter. Thanks > > Andrina S. Womack > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. > If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list > of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >

Mayor Bubba seems to be a volcano of information, so.... Does he, by any chance, know anything about Dr Jacques Bishop of Bishopville, Lee Co? I have never run into a more elusive figure than Dr Bishop. Although the town is named after him, no one seems to have any info whatsoever about him (other than his date of death). Got any ideas where I might find any leads? Thanks much and best wishes for the new year, Marcie Bowen-Astley

Hey, sorry to ask this again but I can't find my notes. Where is Brittain Station that is south of Sumter? I'm looking for the Jones Family cemetary and Liberty Hill church cemetary. Thanks Andrina ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

You are very helpful person. Thanks so much. Regards, Gene

In a message dated 01/13/2000 9:04:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, ParkerC@adm.sumter17.k12.sc.us writes: Cindy, Thanks for the information. Would you by any chance know if Doyle Welch of Sumter is still living. I corresponded with him some years ago and do not want to write a letter that might cause some sadness to the family. Regards, Gene

Thanks Faye! So the magizine must be part of the membership. Great! My cousin, Myrtle McDaniel, and I plan to join the society with in the next month. Lonne ----- Original Message ----- From: Faye L. Dyess <fdy@gate.net> To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] date needed > Just join the Sumter County Genealogical Society > P. O. Box 2543 > Sumter, SC 29151 > 803-773-9144 > > Faye > -----Original Message----- > From: John & Lonne Heath <lonneheath@coastalnet.com> > To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:34 PM > Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] date needed > > > >Hi. Could someone tell me how to get a subscription to the Black River > >Watchman. Perhaps an address, phone number, or webpage. Thanks, Lonne > >Stone Heath > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Mayor Bubba <mayorbubba@sumter.net> > >To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 12:19 PM > >Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] date needed > > > > > >> Ervin...if this is the same journal that I am thinking about....I got > that > >> 2-3 years ago....the oriignal is in the Archives with copies in the > >> Genealogial Society.....I have copy here at Bubba > >> Archives....mayorbubba@sumter.net > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Ervin Shaw <poptop@usit.net> > >> To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> > >> Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 11:55 AM > >> Subject: [SCSUMTER-L] date needed > >> > >> > >> >The Sumter County Genealogical Society's January 2000 issue of The > Sumter > >> >Black River Watchman contains entries from part of The Journal of > William > >> C. > >> >Stiles which cover months within two years...but the years are not > >stated. > >> >Can someone let me know the years contained in that particular issue? > >> > > >> >By the way, I have standard genealogy files on many Sumter names at the > >> URL, > >> >below. PLUS, there is a 20-page or less story of our Scotch-Irish > >> >immigrant's trip and times coming to South Carolina from Belfast > Northern > >> >Ireland. Would love any correcting feedback from any real historians on > >the > >> >Sumter List. > >> > > >> >Ervin & Betty Shaw > >> >poptop@usit.net Lexington, S. C. > >> >http://www.public.usit.net/poptop (the whole web site) > >> >http://www.public.usit.net/poptop/bigstory.html (coming to America > story) > >> > > >> > > >> >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== > >> >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. > >> >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list > >> >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > >> >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: > >> >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >> > >> > >> ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== > >> Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. > >> If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list > >> of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > >> You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: > >> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >> > >> > > > > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== > >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. > >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list > >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: > >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > > > > ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. > If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list > of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >

Cindy, I called Ginny, this morning and she said that she would make me a copy and mail it to me. Thank you so very much. I will send her the money for it she said she would let me know how much it is. Cindy, there is no way I can thank you for the work that you are doing. When you live as far away as I do and can not get to the county to do the work yourself it is so nice to have people like you doing it for us and putting it out so that we can get the information that we are looking for. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND THANK YOU AGAIN. Should you ever need any thing that I can help you with just let me know. Claudia Brumbalow

Thanks for the suggestion, Gene. We already have a copy. Nancy Hughes ----- Original Message ----- From: <Genewelch@aol.com> To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] CSA > Faye, > > Thanks for the info. Hope you will not object to my passing on to an > African-American friend. I understand there was a James Russell who was a > freeman and African-American that served in CSA in Walterboro, SC. This info > was printed when the NAACP wanted the Confederate Monument at the Walterboro > Courthouse removed from the courthouse grounds. > > Perhaps the Sumter Genealogical Society should look for a copy of LIFE ON > THE OLD PLANTATION IN ANTE-BELLUM DAYS written by Rev. I.E. Lowery, a former > slave on the Frierson plantation who removed to Columbia, SC. I know this > book is out of print but perhaps someone could find it in a specialty shop. > I would surely be willing to contribute toward the purchase price. It's > likely the book would be of use to our African-American genealogy researchers > but the book depicts life in slavery as far less restrictive then most have > assumed... > > Regards, > Gene > > ______________________________ >

Just join the Sumter County Genealogical Society P. O. Box 2543 Sumter, SC 29151 803-773-9144 Faye -----Original Message----- From: John & Lonne Heath <lonneheath@coastalnet.com> To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] date needed >Hi. Could someone tell me how to get a subscription to the Black River >Watchman. Perhaps an address, phone number, or webpage. Thanks, Lonne >Stone Heath > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Mayor Bubba <mayorbubba@sumter.net> >To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 12:19 PM >Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] date needed > > >> Ervin...if this is the same journal that I am thinking about....I got that >> 2-3 years ago....the oriignal is in the Archives with copies in the >> Genealogial Society.....I have copy here at Bubba >> Archives....mayorbubba@sumter.net >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ervin Shaw <poptop@usit.net> >> To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 11:55 AM >> Subject: [SCSUMTER-L] date needed >> >> >> >The Sumter County Genealogical Society's January 2000 issue of The Sumter >> >Black River Watchman contains entries from part of The Journal of William >> C. >> >Stiles which cover months within two years...but the years are not >stated. >> >Can someone let me know the years contained in that particular issue? >> > >> >By the way, I have standard genealogy files on many Sumter names at the >> URL, >> >below. PLUS, there is a 20-page or less story of our Scotch-Irish >> >immigrant's trip and times coming to South Carolina from Belfast Northern >> >Ireland. Would love any correcting feedback from any real historians on >the >> >Sumter List. >> > >> >Ervin & Betty Shaw >> >poptop@usit.net Lexington, S. C. >> >http://www.public.usit.net/poptop (the whole web site) >> >http://www.public.usit.net/poptop/bigstory.html (coming to America story) >> > >> > >> >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >> >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. >> >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list >> >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >> >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: >> >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> >> >> ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >> Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. >> If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list >> of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >> You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: >> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> >> > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >

Gene, Stanley Welch is a clothing store here in Sumter. It's located on Guigard. Stanley Welch is near my husband's age (46), maybe a little older. They were in school together. Cindy >>> <Genewelch@aol.com> 01/13/00 08:44AM >>> In a message dated 01/13/2000 7:52:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, mayorbubba@sumter.net writes: << .where Stanley Welch is located was the site of second trestle....first trestle was at corner of Haynsworth and Guignard.......Guignard is named after Guignard Richardson....... just could not help,,,,the Elks Club here in Sumter was the Wilson Home....some of your grew up swimming there >> Could you tell me what this reference is to Stanley Welch? I have no information in my SC Welch Database on a Stanley Welch. Thanks ever so much, Brian E. ("Gene") Welch ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

A history note: Sumter Based Railroad....the Northwestern was first the Summterton to Wilson Railroad....owned by Col. Charles Wilson who ran a big lumber operation at Wilson....just east of Manning...and this side of Foreston....upon leaving Wilson for Summerton, the first station was Bloomeville....then Jordan....then Davis Station and then Summerton....later tracks went to Panola...Broadway Siding (???I think)....and Paxville....then Tindal and on into Sumter......a later tract went from Sumter to Camden....this one went by Dalzell, Providence Springs...Borden and Rembert.....Sumter's heaviest traffic today is on Guignard.....this is old bed of the Northwestern....it went broke and tracks came up around l935....where Stanley Welch is located was the site of second trestle....first trestle was at corner of Haynsworth and Guignard.......Guignard is named after Guignard Richardson....... just could not help,,,,the Elks Club here in Sumter was the Wilson Home....some of your grew up swimming there --mayorbubba@sumter.net -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schmidt <deeken@cpis.net> To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Location-Jordan >Faye, >Jordan is a small community near both Manning and Davis Station. It >is a crossroad on SC 262 towards Santee dam, and extends into the >farm area towards Davis Station. Davis Station is between Jordan >and Summerton. I have "kinfolks" at that time (and today), in this area >of Clarendon...as well as Bloomville, Foreston, Paxville, erc. >Dee in SC > > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

In a message dated 01/13/2000 7:52:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, mayorbubba@sumter.net writes: << .where Stanley Welch is located was the site of second trestle....first trestle was at corner of Haynsworth and Guignard.......Guignard is named after Guignard Richardson....... just could not help,,,,the Elks Club here in Sumter was the Wilson Home....some of your grew up swimming there >> Could you tell me what this reference is to Stanley Welch? I have no information in my SC Welch Database on a Stanley Welch. Thanks ever so much, Brian E. ("Gene") Welch

Alex Haley taught them how, never mind that written history shows different. Read this about my poor aunt, taken from a newspaper. It can be assumed that 'The sympathetic negro ' had been a slave, from looking at the dates. Can one honestly think that "The sympathetic negro ", would have tried to save my aunts life had he been treated as bad as we are now led to believe? Lavinia being the grandaughter of Moses. Charles Westberry 4th grgrandson of the Rev. Moses Westbury of The High Hills Of Santee. ----------------------- Polly, William And Sarah Stanfill - The Valdosta Times - Saturday, February 9, 1878 Arson And Murder. Polly, William, And Sarah Stanfill Perish In A Burning House. Mrs. Lavina Stanfill; The Mother, Burned, Perhaps, Mortally. The Torch Plied By Her Step Son-In-Law And Step Grandson. One of the most terrible cases of arson and murder was committed near Ocean Pond, in this county, last Sunday night - the house belonging to Mrs. Lavina Stanfill, wife of the late Wm. Stanfill, and the victims being her three little children, aged respectively, nine, seven and four years. During the night a negro man on the place discovered the dwelling on fire, and hurrying to the scene of the conflagration, arrived just in time to arouse Mrs. S., after considerable effort, from a deep sleep. She awoke to find herself quite cut off by the surrounding flames, and with a desperate plunge for life succeeded in getting out severely burned, from which she will probably never recover. The poor little children were unable to escape, for it was impossible for any one to reach them. The oldest, a little girl, was seen to clasp the youngest in her arms and make a desperate struggle to escape, but the fire fiend had her entirely surrounded, and she but hastened their end by running into the jaws of a fast approaching and terrible death. She swooned and fell, and naught could be seen but the dim outlines of the two struggling forms in the lake of fire. The other child was unseen, but perished further in the house. The sympathetic negro carried the suffering woman to his house and then returned to the smoldering ruins to keep vigil over the ashes of the innocent victims of a hand too foul to touch the earth with its pollution. When the daylight brought relief to the solitary sentinel the neighbors gathered in and a search for the cause of the fire was made, and not in vain. Tracks were found to where a horse and mule had been hitched in the woods near by, and the tracks of the horse and mule led to Mr. Joseph L. Howell's residence, just across the Florida line, who was a son-in-law of Mr. Stanfill's - he having married a daughter by Stanfill's first wife. Mr. H. appeared at the door and at the sight of the men turned pale and trembled. He being out of the State and the party having no authority to arrest they had to leave him. The news of this harrowing affair having spread like wild fire over the country, and several persons having came forward and testified to numerous threats Howell had made to the effect that he would burn down her house over her head, a party of gentlemen gathered together and crossed the line with the intention of bringing him over at all hazards, but when they went to his house he and his son William had fled for parts unknown. The difficulty seems to have been this: After Mr. Stanfill's first wife died he married a Miss Lavina Westberry, a woman whose character was not suppose to be beyond reproach, and his son-in-law, Mr. Howell, and his children by his first wife, were very much embittered by the act, and until the old man's death they were on anything but amicable terms. After the death of Mr. Stanfill came a bitter contention over the estate; however the liabilities were greater than the amount of his property, and after much litigation and trouble the widow got a dower, and the rest of the property went to the creditors. This was the cause of the trouble. The evidence before the coroner's jury gives a better idea of the subsequent plot on the part of Howell and his son to destroy the property and the lives of the second wife and her children; and how they endeavored to get Mr. Miller Clayton, another son-in-law of Mr. Stanfill, by his first wife, and his sons into the foul game. The reader will agree with us that this is one of the most horrible deeds of the kind on record and let us hope that the hounds of justice will never rest until the guilty parties shall be brought to a just and merited punishment. -----Original Message----- From: VisitHeaven@aol.com [SMTP:VisitHeaven@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 8:31 PM To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] CSA The NAACP would find that book offensive. If it doesn't agree with their way of thinking then it is not only offensive but racist. I often wonder how they seem to remember and know how their anscestors were treated when I remember nothing about how my anscestors treated them. I didn't even know my anscestors had slaves until I read it in a will about three years ago. Another one of those unanswerable questions. ==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. 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