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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Horry County, SC.
Please add profiles of persons born in and associated with Marion County. Note that Marion and Dillon county have overlapping territory depending upon year of birth with Dillon County being formed in 1910 from a northern piece of Marion County. Profiles from some individuals before that time can indicate Marion County as place of birth. Seller's History of Marion County Marion County, Sou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dillon County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Florence County, SC.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Charleston City or County, South Carolina. Official Website History of Charleston Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II of England. Its initial location at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) was abandoned in 1680 for its present site, which became ...
This project is used to relate all units from South Carolina who served in the Confederate Army.
This project is for those from South Carolina and/or their Counties. For accurate information about the history of North Carolina and South Carolina, go to carolana.com . Please go to following link for more information.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jasper County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Union County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chester County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Spartanburg County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Berkeley County was established in 1682. It was named after John and William Berkeley, co-owners of the Province of Carolina. It became part of the Charleston District in 1769. It did not exist as a District during most of the 19th century and generally was part of the Low Country culture. In 1882, f...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Georgetown County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chesterfield County, SC.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Sumter County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Columbia, South Carolina. Overview Columbia is the capital and second largest city of the U.S. state of South Carolina, with a population estimate of 134,309 as of 2016. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County. It is the center of the Columbia met...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Richland County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lancaster County, SC.
Scope of Project We will create documented and accurate Geni Master Profiles for the 45 families of Huguenot settlers in the Carolinas during the Colonial American period (migrations: 1690-1730) and ensure their ancestral and descendent lines are unduplicated and well represented. Overview from: The Huguenots were members of the Protestantism|Protestant Reformed Church of France|R...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in York County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pickens County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Calhoun County, South Carolina. Official Website History Calhoun County was home to the Congaree Tribe. During the American Revolutionary War, Calhoun County was home to the famous Siege of Fort Motte. Located in a rural upland area long devoted to cotton plantations, part of the Black Belt of the South, the county was formed ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Colleton County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Greenville, South Carolina. Greenville is the county seat of Greenville County. The land of present-day Greenville was once the hunting ground of the Cherokee, which was forbidden to colonists. A wealthy settler from Virginia named Richard Pearis arrived in South Carolina around 1754 and established relations with the ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greenville County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anderson County, South Carolina . Official Website Overview Anderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina . As of the 2010 census, its population was 187,126. Its county seat is Anderson. Named for Revolutionary War leader Robert Anderson, the county is located in northwestern South Carolina , along the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Saluda County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oconee County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Abbeville, South Carolina. Official Website History Abbeville was established by French Huguenots in 1764, at a site named by John de la Howe. It was incorporated in 1840. Famed states' rights advocate and Vice President John C. Calhoun first practiced law in Abbeville, and he was born on a farm on the outskirts in what is now...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McCormick County, SC.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived, or died in Lexington County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Aiken County, South Carolina . History Both Aiken County and its county seat of Aiken are named after William Aiken (1779–1831) , the first president of the South Carolina Railroad Company. Aiken County was organized during the Reconstruction era in 1871 from portions of Barnwell , Edgefield , Lexington , and Orangeburg counties.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Laurens County, SC.
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Traders in Some Southeast Indian Nations 1750 ~ 1754 from First People of Tennessee Traders to the Catawbas Robert Steel Robert Tool Mathew Toole Licensed Traders to the Cherokee from Carolina James Adair The Augusta Company James Baldridg Charles Banks William Bates James and Thomas Beamer Samuel Benn Robert Bunning John Butler Cornelius Daugherty ...
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Confederate States: Alabama , Florida , Georgia , Indian Territory , Louisiana , Mississippi , North Carolina , South Carolina , Tennessee ,
In June of 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned five generals and forty-five Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon the city. In retaliation, United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered fifty captured Confederate officers, of similar ranks, to be taken to Mo...
Wikipedia Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private non-denominational Protestant university in Greenville, South Carolina, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions. It has approximately 2,800 students, and is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. In 2008, the university estimated the number of its graduates at 35,000. The university's...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beaufort County, South Carolina. It is not to be confused with Beaufort, North Carolina History From the early days of plantations, African slaves outnumbered the European minority in the colony. The plantations on the Sea Islands had large concentrations of slaves, and frequently limited interaction with whites. The islands wer...
Wikipedia Beaufort National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Beaufort County, in the city of Beaufort, South Carolina. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Newberry County, SC.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Barnwell County, South Carolina . History The Barnwell District was created in 1797 (effective in 1800) from the southwestern portion of the Orangeburg District, along the Savannah River. It was named after John Barnwell , a local figure in the Revolutionary War. In 1868, under the South Carolina Constitution revised during Rec...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Bamberg County, South Carolina. Bamberg County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,987, making it the fourth-least populous county in South Carolina. Its county seat is Bamberg. Adjacent Counties Orangeburg County Dorchester County Colleton County Hampton...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kershaw County, SC.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Edgefield, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Allendale County, South Carolina . Official Website History Allendale County was formed in 1919 from southwestern portions of Barnwell County , along the Savannah River. It is the location of the Topper Site, an archeological excavation providing possible evidence of a pre-Clovis culture. The site is near a source of chert on pr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Darlington County, SC.
This project is used to relate all units from South Carolina who served in the Union Army.
This project is to explore the Petticrew / Pettigrew families of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and South Carolina. Our family history is that the Pettigrew family of South Carolina are cousins to our Pennsylvania/Virginia/Ohio Petticrew family (also spelled Pettycrew in Virginia). Are these various families related? Also, are they Scotch, Scotch-Irish, Huguenot or all three? Before I...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire Czech Republic-Bohemia Croatia Fin...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lee County, SC.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Williamsburg County, SC.
This project is a sub-project of the American slave owners project, and a sister project to the Ball Family of South Carolina project. Summary Notables Timeline resources, references and links Slaves In The Family by Edward Ball
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dorchester County, SC.
Please add those who were born, lived or died in Clarendon County, SC.
This project is about Sullivan's Island as the African-American Ellis Island Summary South Carolina's Lowcountry holds a major place of importance in African-American history for many reasons, but perhaps most importantly as a port of entry for people of African descent. According to several historians, anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of the Africans who were brought to America during the ...
The Siege of Fort Motte was a military operation during the American Revolutionary War. A force of Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots led by General Francis Marion|Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion and Lt. Colonel Henry Lee III|"Light Horse" Harry Lee set out to capture the Kingdom of Great Britain|British post at Fort Motte, strategically located at the confluence of the Congaree River|Congaree a...
The Badwell Cemetery, in McCormick County, South Carolina, had to be partially moved in the 1970's, by the Corps of Engineers, to make way for a lake, which is part of Sumter National Forest. In the 1990s the cemetery was severely vandalized, and had also naturally deteriorated. There had been a cast iron Grim Reaper, that was famous in the area, attached to the cemetery gate, in the mid 1800s,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hampton County, SC.
Please click the photo for a detailed explanation of the historical context. If anyone has any other pictures of the SC 10th Reg Inf that are less instigating/offensive please submit them (along with citation) for use. We cannot change our history but we can certainly learn from it. 10th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Marion, near Georgetown, South Carolina, in July, 1861. Its member...
United States Senators from South Carolina List of United States Senators from South Carolina (from U.S. Senate web site--no links) List of United States Senators from South Carolina (with wikipedia links)
2nd Cavalry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 by consolidating the 4th South Carolina Cavalry Battalion and the Cavalry Battalion of Hampton's South Carolina Legion. The unit served under the command of Generals Hampton, M.C. Butler, P.M.B. Young, and Gary. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia at Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Brandy Station,...
Please click the photo for a detailed explanation of the historical context. If anyone has any other pictures of the SC 5th Reg Cav that are less instigating/offensive please submit them (along with citation) for use. We cannot change our history but we can certainly learn from it. 5th Cavalry Regiment was organized in January, 1863, by consolidating the 14th and 17th Battalions South Carolin...
The best source of manuscript material on the 7th South Carolina exists at the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina. Other manuscript material exists in university libraries, county archives, and in the battlefield parks (especially Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park). The wartime newspapers contain letters written by the soldiers, rosters, casualty l...
This project is just what it sounds like; a place to gather together any profiles available of Governors of South Carolina.
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Herriott DNA 1. George Harriot was born Abt. 1825. He married Ann Muschett February 14, 1850 in St. Elizabeth (Source: B0056 St. Elizabeth Parish Register III & IV, 1835-1859, IV, p. 364 #3.). She was born Abt. 1825. More About George Harriot: Residence: 1850, St. Elizabeth More About Ann Muschett: Residence: 1850, St. Elizabeth Descendants of Robert Muschett Harriott 1. Rober...
Founded in the early 1760s by the charismatic preacher Joseph Nichols, the Nicholites shared many similarities with the Quakers, including dedication to nonviolence and antislavery and were one of the first religious groups in America to make the manumission of slaves a requirement of membership. As with Quaker meetings, the Nicholites’ meetings consisted of silent contemplation of the “Inner L...