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The Sumter 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. |
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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 in
1996 because all of my roots go back to the original
settlers of Old Sumter District. I was born in, grew
up 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 and coastal regions of South Carolina before
the Revolutionary War, having settled in South
Carolina from as early as 1680.
If you have Sumter District roots, then I
might be your cousin. You may visit me visit me via
my personal homepage at http://www.palmettostateroots.org,
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 don't research
other surnames or do other outside research.
"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
Sumter County
Courthouse
 Sumter
County Queries
(Family
or
geographic questions
posed by researchers)
Sumter
County Surnames
(Links
to
others researching
your surnames)
Lumbee
Indians and Goins
Please understand
that some of the
information in the links posted
above may be old.
Posters may have changed
their email addresses. The
information is being left
intact
in order to give clues to new
researchers.
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
SCGenWeb
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 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.
 
You were
visitor 100,000 plus 
more to come by
Sumter
County, SCGenWeb since
October 10, 1996.
� 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002,
2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009,
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
2014, 2015
 Cindy
Parker,
Webmaster of
the Sumter, Clarendon, and
Lee County,
South
Carolina USGenWeb pages
since 1996.
Be sure to
place Sumter County in the
subject line.
I
don't post my email
address as a "clickable"
link due to
spammers.
You'll need to type my
address in by hand in
order to contact me.
As of January 1, 2010,
there has been a
Sumter District
Genealogy Facebook Group.
Join
us on Facebook!
Feel
free to share your
queries and
questions.
With
the advent of smartphones
and tablets, more and more
people are using
Social Media to connect with
others researching their
family lines than ever
before.
You will find Sumter
District Genealogy on
Facebook here:
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This
is a closed group, meaning
that you may only be added
upon request.
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Ridgeway Parker, except
where otherwise noted. The
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Carolina USGenWeb site and
its content pages may NOT be
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They may NOT be linked to
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freely given.
This
page was last updated on
December 13, 2014 in Sumter,
South Carolina.
Please
check linking pages for more
recent updates.
"We
celebrated the
215th birthday
of Sumter on January
1, 2015
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The past is but the beginning of
a beginning
and
all that
is and has
been is but
the twilight
of the dawn.
H.G. Wells
The
Sumter County,
SCGenWeb site
is dedicated
to the memory of
my beloved
daughter,
Melissa Leigh
Sutton
Carolina Girl
turned Hodkgin's
Warrior,
turned Carolina
Angel.
June 6, 1978 - May
19, 2004
http://www.palmettostateroots.org/missy
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