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Mar 31, 2012 •
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Current counties of SC that oomprised the Ninety Six District in 1790. - Cherokee, Spartanburg, Laurens, Pickens, Ooonee, Greenwood, McCormick, Union, Greenville, Newberry, Anderson, Abbeville, Salu...
Sep 27, 2011 •
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As you have probably already noted, Off Topic (1)* journal has been eliminated. I am sorry. You will not be able to go back, read, or to share with friends, families etc. The journal and comments th...
Aug 8, 2011 •
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I have observed recently an interest by some of our members in American history. Thank you. By being a member of Family Tree Circles, I to have learned some history about other countries. Primarily...
Jul 27, 2011 •
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Jul 20, 2011 •
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Searching for any information on John Waters, born around 1775. A dear woman, historian, and genealogist was able to find this information, but could not find any other on John, who would be my GGGGG...
Jul 18, 2011 •
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Seems to me that a huge quanity of points could possibly turn into a personal ego trip.
Please let me encourage the knowledgeable, experienced, well qualified in research, the historians, the genea...
Jul 15, 2011 •
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"In my short story, "Uncle Clyde, Please! Drive the boat" I described the nostalgic feeling I received when I viewed the white two story country store at Cross Springs, S.C. As noted in the journal, ...
Jul 11, 2011 •
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April showers bring spring flowers... I was driving leisurely southward toward Lake Greenwood, S.C. Ahead was a warm spring shower reaching downward in the distance. Soon we met, and soon we parted...
May 18, 2011 •
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This is a story about two families. Allow me to call them, "The Waters' Family" and "The Patterson Family." They are of different color. The Waters' family was white and the Patterson family was bl...
May 13, 2011 •
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW - whose descent is traced from William Longfellow of Byfield Massachusetts, an English immigrant of the third quarter of the seventeenth century, was the son of Stephen an...
May 13, 2011 •
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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering
wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is da...
Apr 29, 2011 •
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Our "American Hero" stepped forward in 1933. It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, America's 32nd President of the United States of America.
Born January 30, 1882 Hyde Park, New York
Died April 12, 1...
Apr 26, 2011 •
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The heat from the hot asphalt road had formed a wave-like distortion. It was hot. Extremely hot! Hemingway S.C. was being scorched.
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Uncle was driving leisurely down the black top county road. ...
Apr 20, 2011 •
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We hear a great deal about the heroes of the American Revolutionary War. Very seldom are we introduced to the exploits that women played. Written herein is the true story of a gallant female patriot...
Apr 17, 2011 •
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* When I was fourteen, My Uncle invited me to spend a month with him in his parsonage home at Hemingway, S.C. Uncle was a Baptist preacher. I was happy and excited to be traveling to a different ...
Mar 29, 2011 •
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To all of you who are related to Col Philemon Waters or think you may be, might find this narrative interesting and enjoyable.
Col. Waters was born, 1 Sep. 1734 - D 29 Mar. 1796 In Newber...
Mar 10, 2011 •
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Mar 6, 2011 •
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I am searching for my great great grandmother's maiden name.
Name: Sarah (Sallie) Vaughan South Carolina. I believe her father
father and mother and family were from Taylors, SC. (Bu...
Mar 5, 2011 •
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Mar 2, 2011 •
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I'm looking for my great great great great grandfather, born abt 1775.
farmer, Spartanburg county SC. My question is this: Has anyone found any information for my GGGGGranfather? I believe his name...