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Research
The information
compiled for this family history comes from the following sources:
- Oral history
from family members alive at this time.
- Investigation
of area cemeteries uncovered some
long forgotten grave sites
as well as
providing some unknown dates. Photographs were taken and archived.
- Progressive
Farmer Magazine.
It was known that an article was done about James "Bosie"
Conner and tobacco farms sometime in the 1950's. Research of
their archives in Birmingham, Alabama in 2004 produced no results.
It seems that there are materials missing from the archives.
It is hoped that in the future someone will be able to find
a copy of the issue where this article was printed. In the meantime
a different article provided photos for our page on
tobacco farming in South Carolina.
- A Research
report commissioned by the family and completed by Andrew S.
Webb and Kyle J. Betit of ProGenealogist,
Inc., P.O. Box 900188, Sandy, UT 84090. This report concentrated
on uncovering little-known facts about James Conner Sr., and
Nellie Conner who lived in Mars Bluff, South Carolina around
1870. Since much was already known about James and Nellie's
two sons, James Jr. and Allen, the research focused on learning
more about the other five children, David, Mary, Annie, Nellie
and Sallie.
This research proved difficult since the government in South
Carolina did not record marriages until 1911 and James' daughters
would all have been married by that time. Their married names
needed to be discovered. It was known that James Jr. and his
wife Anna attended the Wise Chapel African Methodist Episcopal
(A.M.E.) Church in Marion, South Carolina. Church records as
well as local cemeteries (James Jr. and Anna had been buried
in Jackson Cemetery located on Highway 76 in Marion, behind
the "Old Ranch Club") were searched as well as obituaries
(which sometimes give the names of close relatives). Read
the entire report.
- Census
records also proved very helpful in the above report as
well as ongoing research. U.S. censuses have been taken every
ten years beginning in 1770.
Unfortunately
the 1890 census was almost completely destroy, but the Conners
are found enumerated in several other census reports.
- The S.E.
Region of National Archives and Records Administration at www.nara.gov
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tobacco
barn on the Conner family farm
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