Blanche, Would you be so kind as to do the Dr. Thomas Cooper and wife reference? Bob Robert Cooper Manning, Jr Atlanta rcmjr@aol.com rmanning@dhr.state.ga.us

Dear Blanche. I almost hate to bother you because you are hearing from so many people. I have a Scott ancestor that I have been able to find nothing on. Her name was Mary Elizabeth Scott and she married either James or William Yarborough from the Old Darlington District. It was possibly late 1850's I think she most probably at one time lived near Sumter, Florence County. Some family members say they think she was from Macon,GA but neither of the Yarborough's mentioned lived in Macon so I think maybe they married in SC, near Lynches River area and then maybe moved to Macon. Would appreciate it if you could help me fill in this missing information in my Yarborough search. Thanks, Kay Yarborough Goff Formerly from Sardis,SC. Now in Lancaster,SC

Does anyone have access to the 1860 Clarendon County Census? I need a look up for John William Hodge. He would be 23 at the time. It is possible that he was still living in the home of his father James D. Hodge. Thanks for any help. Faye

Thank you Kathy I appreciate the info very much I am still trying to knock down a brick wall. Can't find anything on Catherine ackerman and her Father Jacob Ackerman.Catherine bn abt 1806 supposedly married James Holladay bn 1792. Of that union My great Grandfather John Smiley Holladay was bn 1846 , the last son. I know somewhere there is someone with the information that I need. Out of the blue I will receive it. Thanks again Betty

Hi, Betty--- My guess is that you have probably already started hearing from other Sumter, Clarendon Holladays. I will answer you off of rootsweb on my Holladay line, but others may want this info on Dr. Alvis Holladay's book "Holladay Family". His son Robert Holladay has been a tremendous help to me. He has always (like most of the Holladays that I have met on line) been generous with his information and always ready to help (with a great sense of humor.) His E-mail address is Senor@bellsouth.net Kathy Holladay/Howell

Household 550 Jno.W.Hodge 23 farmer Mary J. 25 W. Etta 1

Bet, As you can see most of these references are not startling genealogical "finds" but rather stories of how and where our ancestors lived. Both William and Dr. Tom were mentioned in the chapter about early businesses on Main St. in Columbia: "At the corner across Lady Street was then, or soon after, a drug store owned by Dr. Sam Green and kept by Dr. F.W. Green, recently deceased, and still later by Dr. Samuel Percival. Dr. F.W. Green's wife was the daughter of William Briggs, the builder of the Columbia Bridge, and her sister was first married to Hugh McLean and afterwards, to Henry Davis." "On Lady Street, near to Main, was a public house owned by Col. Claiborne Clifton, a club-footed lawyer and Methodist preacher, and kept by Chestine E. Williamson, whose wife had been the widow of Dr. Hendrix, and after Williamson's death married William Hilligas, who soon died, and she then continued the business there, as also at a later period in John O'Hanlon's new hotel and at the corner now kept by Mrs. Wright. Col. Tom Campbell and McNary succeeded Mrs. Hilligas at the corner long after known as Hunt's Hotel, which was carried on for some time by Dr. Thomas Briggs, and then by A.M. Hunt. When burned by Sherman's army in 1865 it was in possession of T.S. Nickerson who soon after opened in the Female College building"

Blanche - thank you in advance for giving us so much of interest to read. To go back to the B list - you had my ggggfather listed and I'm curious - Would you give me the information on Dr. Thomas Briggs - And William Briggs tho I don't know him! Thanks - Bet

There is a campground on the Canal between Lake Marion and Lake Moultry Just cant remember name We just always called it Santee Cooper. Betty

Sorry, there is no mention of the name "Lavender" in the Scott book. Blanche

Hi! There is not much on these names but little blurbs, but might provide a window or amusement for you. Busby was mentioned as Scott travelled to Lexington and on to Dutch Fork. He spoke of the familes living in that area and one family was the Busbys who evidently lived close to a man who had just come from Ireland. On one occasion he was "savagely attacked and disabled for some time by a neighbor's bull, and his constant cry was "Oh, that iver I should come ah the way from ould Ireland to be killed by Busby's bull."' In speaking of the community Scott wrote "At Spring Hill the favorite amusement was throwing long bullets or rolling small cannon balls by hand. The leading families in the neighborhood were the Riveses, Williamsons, Freshleys, Eleazers, Slices, Lindlers, Busbys, and others." The name Baldwin was mentioned in connection with the Exchange Bank in Columbia. Mr. C.H. Baldwin was Receiver for that bank.Mr. Scott, who had a bank, had been robbed and some of the money was recovered (these were bills that Mr. Baldwin had placed in Mr. Scott's bank so they were evidently marked) After the Civil War Scott and Baldwin went into business together and in 2 years had a very good profit and went on to other things I guess. Bryan was only mentioned in the early days in Columbia when Scott listed places of business in Columbia.Mr. R. L. Bryan let his palce of business to Plant's, the booksellers. I posted the Browns yesterday for someone else.. If you didn't receive it let me know. Have a good one!! Blanche

The address that Gloria gave evidently has been changed. I checked it and found that I could get it at www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/a/t/Alton-J-Watts/index.html If this doesn't work someone let me know and I'll redo it. I'm still very low on my learning curve. Bo

Here are the names beginning with "C" in Edwin Scott's book: Caldwell(Davis, Gen. James J., John R.), John C. Calhoun, James Cammer, Campbell(Alexander, James B., Col. Tom),Cantey family, Capers(S.W., Bishop William),J.P. Carroll, Carter family, Cathcart (James, Robert), Caughman family, Caughman(Col. H.I., Tom, West, Mrs. West), James Cayce, Gersham Chapman, Col. John J. Chappell, Langdon Cheves, Col. L.D. Childs, Dennis Chupp, Clark (Grig. Isom, James L., John W.), Cline (William, Mrs. William),Peter Clissey, William Clowney, John C. Cochran, Isaac Cohen, Judge C.J. Colcock, James H. Coleman, Conner (Charles, the Rev.), Coogler family, Cooper (Gus, Joseph, Sancho,Dr. Thomas, Mrs. Thomas) ,Corley (Bill, Ephraim,"Granny", Jane), George Catchett, Col. Jacob Counts, Sidney Crane, Crawford (Andrew, Daniel,John A., Matthew), Joe Crews, Col. John Creyon, Crout family I am also listing the "D's: Elisha Daniel, Davis (Amos, Harvey, Henry, Dr. Henry C., Dr. James,Needham, R. Means, Solomon, Thomas), Deas family, DeBruhl (Jesse, Stephen C.), F.D. De Fontaine, Baron Johann DeKalb, Ben Delaune, Dr. DeLeon, Jesse W. Dent, DeSaussure (Capt. William B., Henry William, William F.), Lt. Col. J.P. Dickerson, T.S. Dickinson, Doby family, Douglas family, Dovilliers (D'Ovilliers), Mr. Drafts (Christina, Henry, Jessie,Jacob, Mrs. Jacob), William Drayton, Dreyer (Rev. Godfrey, Dreyer family), Charley Duke, Rice Dulin, Blanton Duncan, John G. Dunlap, Mary Dunning, Rev. Sam Dunwoody .

Horace Curtis, my old high school class mate just informed me that my Home Page listed below was not accessable. I checked and don't know what happened, but I'll try to get another established and notify you when. Bo ----- Original Message ----- From: "gloria herschell" <gherschell@hotmail.com> To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Location-Jordan > Sherry, > Father, Julius B. Watts, born Abt 1834, Clarendon Co., SC. Mother, > Esther Jane Evans, born 1830 Clarendon Co., SC, died 29 Mar 1914, Sumter > Co., SC. I got this info from Bo Watts page on Family Tree Maker. The > address is: > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/a/t/Alton-J-Watts/ODT1-001.html > I don't think he would mind that I'm telling you this. He has all the > descendants of Thomas Watts shown there. I really found it interesting. > Gloria Herschell > > > > From: SHicks1691@aol.com > Reply-To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com > To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Location-Jordan > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:25:13 EST > > Gloria, do you know the parents of your Eliza Jane Watts? > > 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 > > > ______________________________________________________ > 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 >

Ron, The only mention of the Ballard family was "From Sumter we moved to Manchester on the main road between Camden and Charleston. This village was settled, for the sake of health and society, by the Moores,Ramseys, Ballards, and other rich planters who owned land on the Wateree River." Blanche

I am sorry jack creek is off of 1-95 but 1-26 ix near by to get to columbia you would go to 1 26 it is about i hr drive

Dear Blanche, Could you send me the info from the book on the Ballard family? Thank you! Ron Raymond ronr@geoe.com

Hey Gang, Planning vacation in Sc in May. Would like to research in Sumter, Santee, Columbia area. Husband would like to fish. Will be coming in camper. Does anyone know of a good camping spot for fishing and close enough to research sources. Have received info from chamber for lake Marion but having never been there just can't decide. Janet

Thanks, I will do that. Appreciate your help. Janet At 10:40 AM 1/23/00 EST, you wrote: >Janet, > If you can't find another way of contacting the archives about searching >for a will. You might try emailing Richard Harris at Records Services and >here is his email address harris@scdah.state.sc.us >I'm sure he will be able to tell you what to do. >Rose Jones > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >The Sumter County Genealogy Society is open Tuesday - Saturday 10:00-1:00 >and from 2:00 - 5:00. (Check for holiday closings.) (803) 773-9144 >The Genealogical and Historical Research Center is located at 219 West Liberty Street in Sumter. >The mailing address is P.O. Box 2543 Sumter, S.C. 29151. >Meetings are held every third Monday at 7:30 p.m. except during June,July, and August. >(The meetings are held at Swan Lake Presbyterian Church.) > >

Lake Marion would be great. That is great for fishing. That area is close to half way in the middle of everywhere you want to go. Jackie