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Caulean, thank you for answering. Please note what I will owe you for the list. Give me your address and I will send $.
My husband's great greatgrandparents were John Boone, d. June, 1910., who married Frances (maiden name unknown). John was the jailer in Camden, SC in the late 1800's, early 1900's. He was a Confederate veteran. One of John's brothers was named James. John and Frances had a daughter, Frances b. 5/15/189_, d. 6/23/1962. She was married to Sanford or Samford Barrett. Frances and Sanford had a daughter, Mary, d. 1969 was married to Orlando or Orlander (Land) Hatfield, my husband's grandfather. They lived around Kershaw, SC. John and Frances are buried in the Boone cemetery, in Kershaw Co. in what was known in the old days as Boonetown, Just north of Camden.
I've not had the time to stay around Camden and research death certificates, etc. We spent part of a day at the archives in Camden and part of the same day at the archives in Columbia, but that's not enough time. We did search for the Boone Cemetery, but it is small and overgrown with weeds, so we missed it.
These Boones probably aren't easy to track back far. They were poor, illiterate people who just existed. They were "colorful" people. John was injured at Gettysburg and taken prisoner to Deleware for the duration of the Civil War. While he was away, Union soldiers marched through and raped Frances...with witnesses. She bore a male child as a result, so when John came home, she had this child. He raised him as his own and seemed not to show a difference between him and their own children they had later, but because a person's name was so important and what he based everything on, he never gave the child his name. One family member still alive (5 yrs. old when Frances died) remembers Frances and also remembers wondering why that boy didn't have the same name as the other children in the family. I'm sure there are so many of those kinds of tales in the South, but that was an interesting one for me.
Please let me know cost of list?
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