Just a note. We do not have enough staff to do the type of research that requires searching for particular names in volumes or on microfilm, etc. If you know exactly what you want copied, i.e. a surname file, etc., we can do that for the cost of copying and mailing. We are having difficulty right now, just keeping enough volunteers to keep the doors open during the hours we are open. Anyone in our area who is able to donate as much as 3 hours a week would be just wonderful. Remember - no one is paid to be there - including the archivist who invests 2-3 8 hour days a week. Also, my term (2 years) as archivist is up, and I need to get on with my own research which has been on hold for the last three years. Anyone local who would like to help out, please let us know. Nancy Hughes ----- Original Message ----- From: FLD <fdy@gate.net> To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Death Index > Call them on the phone. I too am out of town. They were always very > helpful. I could talk tell them what I wanted and they would let me know > the cost of coping and postage. Then I could just send a check and my info > would be on its way to me. It's also nice to add a little donation in > there, since all the work in done by volunteers. > > Faye > -----Original Message----- > From: SHicks1691@aol.com <SHicks1691@aol.com> > To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:42 AM > Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Death Index > > > >Thanks very much for the responses to my question on the index--now another > >question. I just joined Sumter County Genealogical Society a couple of > weeks > >ago and it is the first time I have been a member of one. I am in > Washington > >State if I write them will they look it up in the index for me (for a fee > of > >course)? > > > >Thank you. > >Sherry > > > > > >==== 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 > > > > > > ______________________________

The state archives in Columbia has the death index on microfiche. Cindy Cindy Parker http://www.crosswinds.net/~alicedrivemiddle parkerc@adm.sumter17.k12.sc.us >>> <SHicks1691@aol.com> 02/28/00 03:02AM >>> Is there a death index available for South Carolina? thanks Sherry ==== 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

Call them on the phone. I too am out of town. They were always very helpful. I could talk tell them what I wanted and they would let me know the cost of coping and postage. Then I could just send a check and my info would be on its way to me. It's also nice to add a little donation in there, since all the work in done by volunteers. Faye -----Original Message----- From: SHicks1691@aol.com <SHicks1691@aol.com> To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Death Index >Thanks very much for the responses to my question on the index--now another >question. I just joined Sumter County Genealogical Society a couple of weeks >ago and it is the first time I have been a member of one. I am in Washington >State if I write them will they look it up in the index for me (for a fee of >course)? > >Thank you. >Sherry > > >==== 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 > >

Yes they will Sherry. Osun

Sure does Jackie. Osun

Thanks very much for the responses to my question on the index--now another question. I just joined Sumter County Genealogical Society a couple of weeks ago and it is the first time I have been a member of one. I am in Washington State if I write them will they look it up in the index for me (for a fee of course)? Thank you. Sherry

In reference for going the Sumter County Genealogical Society. If you are a member else where it is even less expensive, I think $10.00 for being an associate member. Plus you get the Black River Watchman once a month for I think it's 9 months. It really pays to become a member. Jackie

I forgot to mention that there is membership. If you don't get it they charge you $5 per day to research, but the regular membership is $15 for the year and it's worth it, plus it discounts your fee for xeroxing. Osun

If you can make it to: The Sumter County Genealogical Society 219 W. Liberty Street P.O. Box 2543 Sumter, SC 29151-2543 (803) 773-9144 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 1pm then they open back up after lunch 2pm - 5pm They have morality books, death indexes, cemetary records and a wealth of other information for South Carolina. Columbia also. Osun

Is there a death index available for South Carolina? thanks Sherry

There are two mentions of the name "Waring": Scott is describing property in Columbia" "Mr. Parr built a fine brick dwelling on the Northeast corner of Plain and Sumter Streets, which was afterwards owned by John Waring, Dr. H.H. Toland, J. Duncan Allen, and Dr. R.W. Gibbes till burnt by General Sherman." Still Columbia: "Robert Waring, another old settler, quit playing Backgammon with Major Guignard because the Major laughed as much when losing as when winning a game, and thus deprived the victor of one half of his satisfaction." Still in Columbia: "Among the respectable colored people that accumulated property were Mary Purvis, mother of Christopher Haynesworth, Jim Patterson and his wife Sally,Sarah Haynes, Green Guignard, Nero Waring, Richard Holmes, and Joe Randall,trumpeter to the Cavalry." The title of the book is: Random Recollections of a Long Life 1806- 1876 by Edwin J. Scott. It was first published in 1884 by Charles A. Calvo, Jr. Columbia, SC. It was published in 1980 by the Lexington Historical Society and reprinted by The R.L. Bryan Company in Columbia,SC

Could you please post the entries for "Waring" in the Scott book? Also, what is the full title of it?--I think I missed that. Many thanks. Liz Noble (Looking for any and all mentions of the name Waring in SC, especilly Sumter and Richland Counties--anyone with Warings in their database, please e-mail me!)

Here are my Warings. A Benjamin had an Edith and a Richard. Edith m. Archer Smith. They had a Dorothy, Archer, George, John, Daniel, Sarah (Sally), and Susannah. Sarah m. Benjamin and Susannah m. Thomas Waring. Richard from Benjamin (1) m. Florence Beamor and they had Elizabeth. You can see them at http://SingletonFamily.org/ Jackie

Jewelle, You can find lots of stuff on Richard I. Manning at various genealogical forums or by plugging his name into a good search engine. I don't know much about him. I am not related to any Mannings of South Carolina. My grandfather, Claude Manning, owned a company in Sumter for 20 years, married a woman from Wisacky, and is buried at Brick Church, BUT, our Manning line is from elsewhere, settling in Piscataway, NJ some 350 years ago. I believe, but am not sure, that all of these South Carolina Manning's came from original immigrants to Virginia. <A HREF="http://www.southcarolina-info.com/hist/governors/rmanningiii.html">Cl ick here: Richard Irvine Manning Iii - South Carolina Governor - 1915-1919</A> <A HREF="http://www.sciway.net/hist/governors/gov_term.html">South Carolina Governors - in Chronological Order</A>

Bob, Do you know where that I can find a background on this Richard I. Manning? I have an ancestor named Richard I.Manning A. Toole from the Barnwell area, and since I have seen that name I thought he may have been named for thr senator. Thank You, jewelle SCSUMTER-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Part 1.1Type: Microsoft MHTML Document 4.0 (message/rfc822) > > Part 1.2Type: Microsoft MHTML Document 4.0 (message/rfc822)

This company made telephones for the entire country. It wasn't the local telephone exchange. W. A. "mayorbubba" McElveen has done an article on it which can be found in the archives of his column A Look Back in The Item, http://www.theitem.com/ Mayor McElveen has also posted a picture taken about 1910 (the building was built in 1900). This was especially important to me, because that was the year my grandfather, F. Claude Manning married my grandmother Rosa Isabel Cooper of Wisacky. Charles Thomas Mason was founder of this company. His close friend, my grandfather, was also an investor an officer in the company. At it's peak the company employed 400 people in Sumter. The company closed its Sumter operations in 1920 and sold the building to the Carolina Machinery Company. Mayor Bubba was good enough to put me in touch with Rob Honeycutt in Columbia who is writing a history of the company. He supplied me with a great deal of information on my grandfather and his business ventures which help me understand how he moved from Knoxville to Sumter where my father and one uncle were born; to Chicago where an aunt was born; to South Orange, NJ where another uncle was born and finally back to Knoxville where I was born----all of this related in one way or another to the business venture known as the Sumter Telephone Mfg. Co. I'm sure Rob Honeycutt wouldn't mind if I reproduce his list of principal stock holders on this forum, for there are many Sumter names from the turn of the century---the turn before this one, that is. >From Rob Honeycutt: These are the original stockholders in the Sumter Telephone Manufacturing Company: Mrs. L. N. Ligon Sumter, S. C. 10 Shares Mr. Hugh L. McClung Knoxville, Tenn. 50 Mr. E. T. Manning Knoxville, Tenn. 50 Mr. B. J. Barnett Sumter, S. C. 10 Mr. D. M. Blanding Sumter, S. C. 2 Mr. B. R. Nash Sumter, S. C. 30 Mr. C. A. Levy Sumter, S. C. 6 Mr. R. D. Lee Sumter, S. C. 10 Mr. W. H. Thomas Washington, D. C. 50 Mr. C. G. Rowland Sumter, S. C. 12 Mr. C. T. Mason Sumter, S. C. 50 Mr. R. M. Wallace Sumter, S. C. 50 Mr. F. C. Manning Sumter, S. C. 40 Mr. W. B. Moore Yorkville, S. C. 10 Mr. P. D. Hull, Jr. Pulaski, Va. 10 Mr. W. B. Burns Sumter, S. C. 30 Mr. Neill O'Donnell Sumter, S. C. 10 Mr. J. H. Burns Sumter, S. C. 5 Mr. Dr. A. J. China Sumter, S. C. 10 Mr. R. I. Manning Sumter, S. C. 10 Mr. Christopher Adkinson Columbia, S. C. 10 Mr. E. K. Friar Sumter, S. C. 2 Mr. J. T. Thomasson Yorkville, S. C. 5 Mr. J. C. Johns Yorkville, S. C. 5 Mr. Robert Warren Sumter, S. C. 5 Mr. Stewart Mason Sumter, S. C. 2 Mr. G. Edward Haynsworth Sumter, S. C. 3 Mr. C. H. Spencer Sumter, S. C. 4 Mr. George E. Beaumont Sumter, S. C. 1 Mr. Dr. Walter Cheyne Sumter, S. C. 5 Miss Maud Solomans Sumter, S. C. 1 Miss Gussie Solomons Sumter, S. C. 1 Miss Kate Solomons Sumter, S. C. 1 I hope some of these names may be recognizable to others on this list. The E. T. Manning listed was my grandfather's brother. The R. I. Manning was then state senator and later governor. (no relation)----Bob Manning

Just a point of interest to me concerning this old telephone building. My mother, Ethel Mae Jones worked as a telephone operator in 1920-1923 and I assume she worked in this building. Bo Watts ----- Original Message ----- From: <VisitHeaven@aol.com> To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Re:Sumter Telephone & Barlett > The answer is yes to the Telephone Company building still standing. It is > now a Moise Mini-Warehouses. It reminds me of my days working at the > Telephone Company in Charleston back in '63-'64. Jackie > > > ==== 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 >

The answer is yes to the Telephone Company building still standing. It is now a Moise Mini-Warehouses. It reminds me of my days working at the Telephone Company in Charleston back in '63-'64. Jackie

Does anyone have any info on the Sumterville Academy started in the 1830s or 1840? Marcie

Thanks for your reply. The Bartletts you mentioned are the relatives of my husband. They went to Texas and Charles later went to Michigan. I didn't know about the financial troubles. Any more information you have on this family will be appreciated. Thanks, Kay