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Welcome
to Sumter
County. My name is Cindy Ridgeway Parker. I
volunteered
to coordinate the
Sumter County, South Carolina USGenWeb homepage
because
all of my roots go back to the original settlers of Old Sumter District. I was born in and I
live in Sumter County, less than 20 miles from where
my ancestors were farmers and then planters from as early as 1740. My parents, my grandparents, their parents, and
on
back were born in Clarendon County which was part of Old Sumter
District.
My Old Sumter
District ancestors all moved inland from the low country of South
Carolina before the Revolutionary War, having settled in South Carolina
from as early as 1680.
I graduated
from Sumter High
School in 1973. I started my college education at the University
of
South
Carolina at Sumter. I completed my B.A. in education at Coastal
Carolina
University in Horry County
and my M.Ed. at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. In 1999,
I
completed my specialists certification in mathematics, with 18 of those
30 post-graduate hours in educational technology. I serve as math
department head and I teach seventh grade mathematics
at
Alice Drive Middle School here in Sumter. I also serve as an adjunct
instructor via the College of Charleston (graduate school). I
get to teach other teachers how to utilize the computers and other
technology in their schools.
If you have
Sumter District
roots, then I might be your cousin. If you ever come by this way, l
et
me
know. I might be going to the local archives that day. Feel free to
e-mail me anytime.
(Be sure to put Sumter County in the subject line. I receive a lot of
e-mail
so I only read the
ones with interesting subject lines or return e-mail
addresses that I recognize.) In the meantime,
visit me via my
homepage where you will find the basics of my personal genealogy. I
am quite willing
to share what I have on the surnames that I research,
but please understand that I am an amateur
genealogist, researching my
own family lines. I do not have the time to research other surnames.
I
am happy to share my knowledge of Sumter County and to do quick lookups
in the resources that
I own, but I am not available for research. I
have
posted some information on researching in South
Carolina on line.
Please
check out these lessons
. Maybe they will help.
If you have
other data to add
to the files that you find posted on this web site, please let me know.
I will be happy to get them on-line for you.
"Each
smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans
of time, affecting
lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was
the
source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each
time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless
courage
years later and far away....."
This
Momentous Day , H.R.
White
The
Opera House
Postcard
donated to Sumter County, SCGenWeb by Earnest Scarborough.
Mary
Wilder sent the card to his father,
Ernest Scarborough at St. Charles,
S.C. in 1907.
 Sumter
County Queries
(Family
or geographic questions posed by researchers)
Sumter
County Surnames
(Links
to others researching your surnames)
Old
Salem and Old Claremont County Queries
(Family
or geographic questions posed by researchers)
Old
Sumter District Family Reunions
(Maybe
yours is listed or needs listing)
Lumbee Indians and Goins
Sumter
County Documents and Data
Sumter
County Obituaries
(Transcriptions
of obituaries donated by researchers.)
Sumter
District Bible Records
(Transcriptions
of Family Bible Records donated by researchers.)
Sumter
District Wills Project
(Volunteer
to help with this project.)
Sumter
County Records and Documents
(
Please help with this project.)
Old
Sumter District Letters Home
(
Transcriptions of old letters. Please donate yours.)
USGenWeb
Archives, Sumter County 1868-1869
Stateburg Township, Voter Registration List
High
Hills Baptist Church Constituents
Post
Offices of Sumter District
Stateburg
Slave Names
List
of Sumter District Slave Owners
1860
Slave Schedule With Surname Matches from 1870 Census
Commencement
Announcement
(Sumter
High School, 1915 - names are included.)
Sumter
District 1865 & 1866 Freedman's Contracts
(Contacts
signed by African-Americans for work, after the War Between the States)
Sumter
County Cemetery Transcriptions
(Please
help with this project.)
Sumter
County Reference Information
Sumter
County References
(Information
on books, lookups, etc.)
Sumter
County Mills Atlas Map
Places
in Sumter District
Sumter
County Plantations
A
Brief Sumter County History
Sumter
Photograph Album
(Pictures
of kith, kin, and places)
Sumter
County Postcards From the Past
(Thanks
to Ernest Scarborough!)
Sumter
County Census Data
1790
South Carolina Federal Census Index (graphic images)
(Look
for the Claremont County Images)
1800
Sumter District Census Index (Partial)
1810
Sumter District Census Index (Partial)
1820
Sumter District Federal Census
1850
Sumter District Census Index
1850
Sumter District Census
1850
Partial Sumter District Census
1860
Partial Sumter District Census
1860
Sumter Slave Holder Census
1870
Stateburg Census Excerpts
Newspaper
Obituaries,
and Books,and
Other
Articles of
Interest
Death
Notices and Obituaries
(Old
Sumter Newspapers)
Marriages
and Obituaries
(From
the Southern Christian Advocate)
Boykin
Mill Drownings
(Special
to the Sumter Watchman)
Obituary
Search Engine
(Search
present day Sumter area obits)
Sumter
County Obituaries
(Transcriptions
of obituaries donated by researchers)
Dr.
Moses Moore
(Information
about his Confederate Service)
Sumter
in 1855
(Tour
in prose by Joel Brunson)
Sumter
District Newspapers
(List
of newspapers published in Sumter District)
Richardson and Buford Families
("A Genealogical Record with Reminiscences of the Richardson and Buford Families" )
Sumter
County Military Information
Hampton's Legion, Clarendon Guard
Hampton's Legion, Misc. Information on Sumter Men
Hampton's Legion, a Short History
Company
F, 9th Regiment South Carolina Volunteers
20th
Regiment South Carolina Militia
Company
I, 7th South Carolina Cavalry
(Also
known as the Claremont Guard, Holcombe's Cavalry, Company A)
2nd
Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers
(The
Sumter Greys)
2nd
Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, Co. D
DeSaussure's
Light Artillery
Confederate
Dead Monument Transcription
(Names
of those who died in the conflict from Old Sumter District)
African-American
Confederate Pensioners
(Names
of those who received a pension from the government for their service.)
1868
Stateburg, Sumter District Militia
Sumter
Light Infantry, 1898
Sumter
District Federal Pensions Report of 1835
A
Lost Cause, But an
Honorable One, by Lewis Regenstein
SC
3rd Battalion Light Artillery
Company C, Culpeper's Battery
Claremont Rifles
C
A
View of Main Street
Postcard
donated to Sumter County, SCGenWeb by Ernest Scarborough.
Mary
Wilder sent the card to his father, Earnest Scarborough
at
St. Charles, S.C. in 1907.
The
number 10 on each light pole is an advertisement for Cole Bros. Circus,
Oct. 10.
 More
Sumter County Links and Information
South
Carolina USGenWeb Links
Other
South Carolina Links
 About
the SCGenWeb and USGenWeb
Projects
In
March
and April,
1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive
Genealogy
Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties
in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition,
the
databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an
individual
was found in more than one county, they could be located in the index.
At
the
same time,
volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of
databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. The
SCGenWeb
Project is an extension of the KYGenWeb Project. This project is now
nationwide.
The USGenWeb Project is becoming one of the largest volunteer efforts
on
the Internet. Its growth and utility will depend upon you---the user.
The
USGenWeb Project
and the SCGenWeb Project are a non-commercial, all volunteer
organization
and are NOT connected in any way with USGenWeb, Inc. which is a
for-profit
Idaho corporation.
 
You
were visitor
100,000 plus 
more to come by
Sumter
County,
SCGenWeb since October 10, 1996.
Come
back anytime.
I
will look forward to hearing from you.
Be
sure to
place Sumter County in the subject line or
I
will
miss reading
your message.
©
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
This page was last updated on January 1, 2010 in Sumter, South
Carolina.
Please
check linking
pages for more recent updates.
 Cindy
Parker,
Webmaster
of
the Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee County,
South
Carolina
USGenWeb pages
and
Assistant
State
Coordinator for SCGenWeb.
Be
sure to
place Sumter County in the subject line
or
I
will miss
reading your message.
As of August 6, 2009, I obtained a "new" email address as indicated by the graphic above.
I do not plan to post my new email address as a "clickable" link due to spammers.
My old email address may appear on other linking page. It no longer works.
I maintain many pages. As I find the old email address, I will remove it.
This may take a while :)
My new email address is not set as "clickable."
You must type my address in by hand in order to contact me.
Please contact me by typing the above email address into your address area.
As of January 1, 2010, you will find a Sumter District Genealogy Facebook Group.
Join us on Facebook!
Feel free to share your
queries and questions.
Thanks
to ROOTSWEB Genealogical
Data Cooperative for free server space
and
a
great deal
of support!
Please help
support
them in their
mission to make massive amounts of genealogical data available to
us!
This
FREE web site and its content pages are © 1996-2010 by Cynthia
Ridgeway
Parker, except where otherwise noted. The Sumter County, South Carolina
USGenWeb site and its content pages may NOT be copied, altered,
converted,
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are aware of any violations of these copyright restrictions, please
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