Hello all, I am home from our trip to the beach. (No sunburn. My husband should have purchased stock in a #30 sunblock company. He makes sure that we all lotion up.) Anyway, I have just loaded up page updates for all 3 counties. The Clarendon page has the newest big updates. I have added a cemetery links page with 3 cemetery transcriptions. Take a look at the Clarendon page. Oh, before I left for the beach I added a picture to the photo album. It's one of the first motorized engine that the fire dept had. (1916) Thanks folks for sending me your pictures and data. Cindy P.S. The Sumter County Courthouse has wills, deeds etc. which were filed there since 1800 when Sumter District was established. They even have some of the older records pertaining to what became Sumter Distirct from when Sumter was part of Camden District. (Remember that Clarendon was part of Sumter District until Jan. 1, 1800 and both were part of Camden before.) All of my ancestors were from Clarendon and I have found their wills, deeds, etc in the Sumter County Courthouse. Of course, I have gone to Clarendon for the later items. The Sumter County Courthouse officials managed to save the county records from the Union Troops by taking them out into the country and hiding them. Clarendon didn't fare so well. Union troops burned the courthouse in Manning so many records were lost. (Probably just the ones I need too.)