There is data in regard to the Brunson family on the Clarendon County, SC
Gen Web.
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From: Chris 
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Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Brunson's


 I'm looking for a first link to the Brunson's of Sumter, SC. My mother's
> parents were William "Bill" Daniel Brunson, 1834-1920 and his wife was
Emma
> Orana Newman Brunson b.01 Oct 1870 d. 17 Nov 1925. They had been dead many
> years before I was born and I remember my mother telling me that her
mother
> was adopted by the Newman family in Sumter, SC. She was from Turkey and my
> mother was too young to ask what her parents name were or where in Turkey
> she was from. All she knew was that she was Turkish. Her father was
injured
> during the war and when she was a little girl her mother took her father
to
> a train station and put him on the train to go somewhere in SC to be
looked
> after until his death. Sounds horrible to do that but she obviously did.
My
> grandmother wrote school books, according to my mother. That is the extent
> of my knowledge and perhaps this is a dead end road but since Sumter is a
> small town I thought someone might know how to go about a search. Their
> children were:
> Daniel
> Charles or Charlie b. 18 Dec 1905 d. 07 April 1979
> Natalie Louise b. 01 Jan 1908 d. 14 Sept 1986
> Orana
> Lucers b. 18 July 1909 d. 23 Aug 1976
> Orana married a Johnson and had a child named Edward. She died during
> childbirth but Edward lived with his father in Sumter. He worked for the
> telephone company in Sumter for years and had married Rachel_____. Some of
> their children were: Annette, Jimmy, Allan, and a girl who married a Dr.
> DuBose, a dentist.
>
> This isn't much to go on but if anyone knows any information at all, I
would
> appreciate hearing from you, either through the list or by writing me at:
> Blackwell@coastalnet.com. Thank you for any assistance you may give.
>
> Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bonedigger 
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> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 12:20 PM
> Subject: PURCELL
>
>
> > Either three brothers or a father and two sons.
> > Ignatius Persell/Purcell b. 1756 m. Susannah Freeman Goochland VA
> > Jacob Purcell 1773 m. Mary Polly King Franklin Co GA
> > John Purcell abt 1780 m. in GA
> > Anyone know anything about these fine folks?
> > Charles.
> >
> > Don't worry bout me, I'm as organized as a henhouse full of chickens.
> >
> >
> > bonedigr@concentric.net
> > Don't worry bout me, I'm as organized as a henhouse full of chickens.
> > bonedigr@concentric.net
> >
> >
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