Friend of Friends Friday~SC, Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1872

 
During the Holidays, FamilySearch posted some very interesting records related to South Carolina families.
The series is called the "South Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1872” and consists of over 200 pages of data.

The below document is typical of the documents found in this series. It’s an excellent treatise on the “fatherless families in the county after the Civil War”. In many ways it’s a sad commentary on the effects of a civil war on families.

 


This record is for my 2nd Great Grandmother Elizabeth Parson Sellers. In the late 1840, she and her husband moved to Tennessee. While there, her husband, my Great Grandfather, William Eddins Sellers, was killed while helping to build a church. She and the children returned to Chesterfield County.  In 1867, she was 45 years old and it shows that her son, James Arnold Sellers, age 21, was wounded in the hip. He was born on 16 Sept 1846.

I highly recommend you take a look at records at this hyperlink:



https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-36671-8735-26?cc=2127881&wc=M9HH-D8P:1937351358

Based on the age of individuals listed the records represent the year 1867. 

There are 199 pages with 6 families listed on each page. The documents contain both white and black families and are co-mingled together by surname.








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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-36671-8735-26?cc=2127881&wc=M9HH-D8P:1937351358