In a message dated 7/27/1999 9:19:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
spryor@gower.net writes:

<< Are there any records of orphan children in Marion District in the early
 1800's?  If so where do I find the information? >>
Sandra and SC Roots List Members,
     I, too, am interested in this information.  Is there a web site of SC 
orphanages?
     I have always heard that I have connections to Marion. But I do not know 
how. I do know that my gg-Aunt Nelie, Cornelia Lefforts Sherwood (1868 - 
1939) lived in Marion for awhile. I got this information from return 
addresses on old letters. 
     When Aunt Nelie died, she requested that $25.00 of her estate be given 
to an orphanage in York, SC. Since she never married and had no children, I 
tend to wonder if she had been in that orphanage as a child. In her later 
years, she lived with my grandparents in Ridgeland, Jasper County, where she 
is buried.
     I am researching DAVIS HEAPE ULMER YOUMANS ZAHLER & PEEPLES (Colleton, 
Hampton, Beaufort, & Jasper Counties of SC) and SHERWOOD & BOYD.
     If any of the above sounds familiar, please contact:
Patricia Davis Runey   SouthUSA's Home Page 
Charleston, SC

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