Anyone with deep Southern roots should always check the original records and published source books for South Carolina, as so many families migrated from there further westward, especially through Georgia.
Brent H. Holcomb has long been the most prolific editor and publisher of South Carolina materials. As the editor of the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research since the 1970s, he has provided in four issues each year a multitude of articles on original records, from courthouses as well as from newspapers and the state archives.
He has edited hundreds of books as well as published many by others.
His latest is “South Carolina’s State Grants, Volume Three: Grant Books 12 Through 15, 1786-1787.” This covers more of the grants issued after the state land office reopened in 1784. Some of the grants were paid for by Revolutionary War service vouchers. (You must study county designations carefully because of boundary and name changes.) He abstracted the vital data for each grant: name, acreage, location, water course, and dates.
The book is $35 plus $5 postage from Holcomb at P.O. Box 21766, Columbia, SC 29221. See scmar.com.
Holcomb also published “Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices, Volume IV: 1897-1902,” compiled by Lowry Ware. Ware abstracts vital information from the Associated Reformed Presbyterian newspaper, the religious organ of that faith, published in Due West, S.C. Often overlooked by genealogists, it is full of important data from Southern states as far away as Texas, and includes a lot of Jefferson County, Ga., people. There is a full-name index.
It costs $30 plus $5 postage, and is available from Holcomb.
CDC history in new book
Bob Kelley will speak at the DeKalb History Center’s Lunch and Learn seminar May 19 about his new book, “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” written with Judy Gantt, from Arcadia Publishing.
The event is at noon and is free; bring your lunch. For further information, check dekalbhistory.org or call 404-373-1088, Ext. 23.
Local historian Don Shadburn dies
Don Shadburn of Cumming, well-known for his many books on the Cherokee Indians and the North Georgia area, died April 21.
His death leaves a great gap in that area of research and publication. Some of his better-known works are "Cherokee Planters in Georgia" and "Unhallowed Intrusion." See donshadburn.com for his seven books.
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