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                                        Steven
            On Saturday the Humble Area Genealogical Society's Spring
seminar features Brent Howard Holcomb speaking on "South Carolina
Genealogy".
            I have copied your postings to SC Roots, edited them to remove
duplications, and request your permission to copy them as a handout at the
seminar.  There is a charge of $10 to attend, but the HAGS could not pay any
fee to use this material.
            A text copy of the edited notes follows.  An attachment shows
them in MS Word format, so that you can evaluate the exact appearance.  Any
suggestions or recommendations to enhance the use will be appreciated.
                                                JRH

South Caroliniana Library & Genealogy

          The Manuscripts Division of the South Caroliniana Library collects
and preserves a wide variety of unpublished materials significant to the
study of history and culture in the Palmetto State.
Holdings include letters, diaries, and other personal papers; records of
businesses and organizations; and broadsides and other ephemera reflecting
political, commercial, and leisure activities. The visual images collection
includes photographs, prints, postcards and other material that document the
people, buildings, and landscapes of the region.
                                                                   Genealogy
        The Manuscripts Division holds various unpublished genealogical
files documenting connections among families of South Carolina and beyond.
Frequently consulted research files include the Leonardo Andrea, Bessie Lee
Garvin, and Louise K. Crowder genealogical collections. A microfiche index
to W.P.A. cemetery inscriptions is available in the repository. Other
finding aids to search include the surname index to the Andrea collection, a
list of churches surveyed by the W.P.A. Inventory of Church Archives, and
lists of many of the unpublished cemetery records held by the Library are
included in Richard N. Côté's Local and Family History in South Carolina: A
Bibliography (1981). Finding aids to other genealogical collections are
available in the repository and, in part, online (USCAN search tips for
genealogical materials). Although the Library staff cannot undertake
genealogical searches for users, a list of researchers for hire is available
upon request.
                                                  Related Research Materials
Want to know more? Historians and genealogists pursuing research in
Columbia, S.C., will enjoy the extensive collections and evening hours of
operation available at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
and at Thomas Cooper Library.
Related information about many of the people and events represented in the
manuscript holdings at SCL can be found in various government documents
available at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, which
offers unpublished state and county records, census schedules, wills,
inventories,
court minutes and other useful material.
At Thomas Cooper Library, researchers enjoy browsing access seven days a
week to copies of many of the same books, dissertations, and periodicals
held by the South Caroliniana Library.
For further information, please contact the Manuscripts Division staff by
e-mail or at:
Manuscripts Division, South Caroliniana Library, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
Tel: (803) 777-5183   Fax: (803) 777-5747   [email protected]
            Source: URL http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/mnscrpts/index.html
Finding Aids:  http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/mnscrpts/findaids.html
Online Catalogs:  USCAN: http://www.sc.edu/library/uscan.html
USC Online Catalog is an online system for locating library materials in the
University of South Carolina System Libraries. It includes books, journal
titles, government documents, visual materials, microforms, etc. USC Online
Catalog searches all the USC campus libraries (indicated by PC), all the
libraries on the Columbia Campus (indicated by TC) and the Center for
Research Libraries in Chicago (indicated by TC), the Law Library (indicated
by LW) and Aiken Technical College (indicated by TS).
USCAN also provides access to the indexes to articles, specialized databases
and to some other university and college library catalogs. The indexes to
articles cover a wide range of disciplines and help you locate articles on a
particular topic.
= SCROOTS Mailing List = Address comments to listowner: Adrian Hopkins
[email protected]
                                    Examples of Holdings:
1. Thomas A. Waites, Jr., (1915-1992), and Virginia Draffin Waites papers
3 3/4 linear feet, ca. 1967-1991, contain genealogical files compiled
chiefly upon the Waites and Draffin families, but provide information on
other lines as well, including Crockett, Crout, Downey, Fikes, Fulmer,
Graddock, Koon, LaCons, Meetze, Mickler, Morris, Myers, Rikard, Rutherford,
Sease, Seastrunk, Stack, Washington, Wingard, and Younginer  The collection
contains letters, charts, Bible records, news clippings, 260+ photographs,
principally of cemetery headstones.
           Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1993/misc93.html
2. Petition of James Williams' Little River Regiment
Manuscript, 3 September 1779, petition of the officers and men of James
Williams' Little River Regiment, is a significant find that fills a gap in
South Carolina political history... It consists of two documents attached by
wax seals, with text on the upper portion and signatures on the lower. The
subscribers are Capt. Thomas Dugan, Lt. Levi Casey, Lt. Robert Dugan, and
sixty-one rank and file.
The signatures account for only one or two companies, and they do not
include Williams himself or any of his staff officers. It can reasonably be
assumed that the petition originally existed in several copies, with
different signatures attached to the various copies. ....
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1997/will97.html
3. McRae, Cantey & Company ledger
Manuscript volume, 1794-1799, ledger for the mercantile firm of McRae,
Cantey & Company documents the partnership of Duncan McRae and Zachariah
Cantey who operated one of Camden's best-known general stores and also the
old Kershaw mill. The pagination of this ledger book runs from 515 to 1061
and thus the ledger appears to be the second volume of a set. The entries
constitute a major
archive of information about the social history and population of the Camden
community.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1997/mcrae97.html
4. Deed of Henry Felder, Jr.
Manuscript, 1798, deed of Henry Felder, Jr., for land in Amelia Township is
a rare historical find because Orangeburg County's early records were burned
by Sherman's army in 1865. Felder (1748-1802?) represented St. Matthew and
Orange parishes in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1782-1786
and 1792-1794.
The conveyance identifies the 75 acre tract as part of 250 acres granted to
Conrade Hover and sold by his son Joseph Hover to Conrad Amick. Felder
purchased from Amick's widow, daughter, and son-in-law-Eve Shingler,
Elisabeth King, and Sebastian King. This occurred on 17 Sep 1798.  Felder d.
soon afterward and his heirs waited 30 years to record the deed. On 14
January 1828, Orangeburgh District Register of Mesne Conveyance J.
Winningham recorded it in the lost Book No. 13, pages 401-402.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/mnscrpts/findaids.html
5. David H. Bernhard Journal
Manuscript volume, 1836-1864, journal of Lutheran pastor David H. Bernhard
(1807-1843) recording baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials
performed by Bernhard while serving churches in present-day Lexington and
Orangeburg counties. Bernhard's pastoral register also records details of
household expenditures, subscriptions to religious publications, and the
dates, places, and scripture texts for sermons preached, chiefly at Sandy
Run, St. Matthew's, and Pine Grove Lutheran churches.
Rachel H. Muller Bernhard (1819-1882) took up the journal after her
husband's death, and one of her early notations mourns his passing "after
less than three short years" of married life. Subsequent entries are given
over largely to descriptions of sermons. Additionally, the volume includes
handwritten
obituaries penned by Rachel Bernhard, among them that of the Bernhards'
twenty-year-old son, Henry C. Bernhard, who died 12 May 1862 at Banner
Hospital, Richmond, Va. The manuscript journal is accompanied by a
typewritten transcription and photographs of David and Rachel Bernhard.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1993/bern93.html
6. Roster, 1861 "Roll of Non-commissioned Officers and Privates
Soldiers on extra duty as Mechanics & Laborers at Hilton Head S.C. during
the month of November, 1861, by Capt. H.A. Hascall, Asst. Quartermaster U.S.
Army," November 1861, listing those employed by name, company, regiment,
term of service, rate and amount of pay, and in what capacity employed.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1993/misc93.html
7. Bessie Lee Garvin Genealogical Collection  Author: Garvin, Bessie Lee,
1893-1982
Date Range: 1828-1982, and undated  Extent: 2.5 linear ft. (2 cartons) and 3
volumes
Chiefly genealogical materials on the Agee, Asbill, Barnes, Bartlett,
Bissell, Brodie, Bryant, Burckhalter, Busby, Butler, Chafee, Chavis, Chiles,
Clark, Cloninger, Cook, Coon, Cooper, Corbett, Corbitt, Corley, Creed,
Cropper, Crum, Day, Eis, Emanuel, Evans, Fanning, Foster, Galloway, Gardner,
Garvin, Gordon, Green, Hankinson, Harden, Hargrove, Harley, Hasting,
Hatcher, Hitt, Howard,
Hudgins, Hydrick, Ingram, Jennings, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Joslin,
Jumper, Kennedy, Kennerly, Kirk, Kitching, Koon, Knuff, Landrum, Lown,
McVey, Mathis, Middleton, Mims, Moseley, Nunn, Ott, Outlaw, Pace, Page,
Picketts, Prothro, Randall, Rickard, Ross, Rumbley, Rumph, Salley, Savage,
Seigler, Sheppard, Shuler, Simmons, Sizemore, Stewart, Strother, Sullivan,
Summers, Taylor, Teague,
Thornton, Turner, Tyler, Vardell, Wade, Waid, Waide, Waites, Walker, Warren,
Watson, Weeks, Weaver, Wheeler, Williams, Winningham, and Wyman families.  3
scrapbook volumes, 1970-1975, document the Aiken County Historical Society's
Bicentennial celebration. Also included are Orangeburg District, S.C., land
papers, 1786-1848, and bills of sale for two Negro slaves purchased by Jesse
Johnson, 18 Feb. 1829 and 27 Feb. 1843.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/mnscrpts/findaids.html
Preferred citation: Bessie Lee Garvin Genealogical Collection, South
Caroliniana Library, University of South Caroliniana. References: University
South Caroliniana Society Program, 1993, pp. 39-40.
Processed by: Rita Foster Wallace Date Completed: 28 March 1993 Accession
number: 11759.
8. Frederick Augustus ("Gus") Haddock account book
Manuscript volume, 1861-1863, of Frederick Augustus ("Gus") Haddock is a
valuable acquisition relating to the subject of the mid-nineteenth-century
turpentine industry in South Carolina.
The coming of the railroad promoted the development of Williamsburg
District's pine forests. Turpentine beat cotton as a cash crop; it boosted
the region's economy. In the early 1850s, experienced North Carolinians
began moving in and buying up pine lands cheaply. They set up turpentine
farms and distilleries, established a skilled labor force, and gained
membership in the community.
Haddock was a native of North Carolina; his tombstone in Union Cemetery says
that he was born 29 August 1829 and killed by a falling tree 22 October
1892. He settled near Black Mingo Creek along the Georgetown-Williamsburg
county line, and in addition to his turpentine business he superintended
river dredging in the area. His account entries begin in the spring of 1861
and end in the summer
of 1863 about the time he left home to enlist in Co. A, 7th South Carolina
Cavalry.
The accounts are indexed by name and record dealings with a number of local
firms and families: J.F. Carraway, McConnell & Britton, Ange & Brothers,
Furnifold Rhem, J. B. Anderson, J. A. Hemingway, Dr. J. J. Steel (for
medical attention to slaves), Marion Britton, and James Snow. The listed
items refer
most frequently to barrels of turpentine, tar, and rosin, but the book also
includes a list of hides in tan, including "22 Hides from Gov. [R.F.W.]
Allston." In a separate account appears a reference to "Elm Grove
distillery," evidently owned by Haddock. And like many plantation account
books, this one
contains a register of Haddock's slaves.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1997/haddoc97.htm
9. Lexington County Pension Board records
Manuscript volume, 1896-1906, 1916, of the Lexington County Pension Board
lists individuals petitioning for support, residence, regimental
affiliation, reason for approval or disapproval and how much approved per
month. Both veterans and their widows made application and approval was
based on each person's ability to provide for his own support. Some
applications for public assistance were
disapproved-due perhaps to the applicant's owning too much property or his
wife having "considerable income." Loss of limbs and other injuries that
resulted in an individual being unable to work were often cited as the
grounds for approval.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1997/lexing97.html
10.  Papers of the Willingham and Lawton families
This collection of 498 manuscripts documents family life in the area of
Allendale and Greenville during and after the Civil War, in particular
through the interrelated families of Sarah Lawton, eldest child of Dr.
Benjamin W. Lawton (1822-1879) and Josephine Barksdale Polhill, and John
Calhoun Willingham (1841-1892), son of Thomas Willingham (1798-1873) and
Phoebe Sarah Lawton (1802-1862). John C. Willingham was a student at Furman
University in Greenville at the outbreak of the Civil War. Without returning
home, he enlisted in the First Regiment of South Carolina Cavalry commanded
by Gen. M. C. Butler. During the war, Willingham served in Virginia and
South Carolina.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1997/willin97.html
11. Sam[uel] A. Cooley account book
Manuscript volume, 1864-1866, of Sam[uel] A. Cooley, contains cash accounts
for his photographic studio in Jacksonville, Fla., 12 March - 5 August 1864
and for his mercantile business in Beaufort, 1865-1866. Cooley, from
Connecticut, surfaced in the Beaufort area before the war as a photographer.
He stayed in the occupied area as a sutler and by 1863 had a photographic
studio above his store
located next door to the Arsenal. Although Cooley sold his photographic
business in May 1864 with the intent of returning to the North, he
reappeared in 1865, advertising himself as "Photographer Dept. of the South"
and selling his wartime photographs. By 1866 Cooley had established himself
as an auctioneer, town marshall, and businessman in Beaufort. His account
book indicates he sold bread
and foodstuffs to various businesses as well as to the General Hospital and
the Small Pox Hospital.
          Source: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1997/cooley97.html


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