I would love to receive a little input from someone who has a better 
understanding of how record keeping is done in Richland County, SC 
(Columbia).  I can document that my paternal grandparents are buried 
side-by-side in a cemetery in Columbia.  They both died in Columbia in 
the 1940's, which would supposedly be recent enough for death 
certificates and estate papers to be held at the county level, rather 
than at the state archive level.  And they had lived in Columbia for a 
number of years prior to their deaths.

In spite of that, however, the Clerk of Court's office informs me they 
have no record at all of either individual.  Even if both died 
intestate, it seems to me that by the 1940's there should have been 
death certificates and some kind of estate papers.

How could there be no record at all?







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