Orangeburg County, South Carolina Genealogy

United States  South Carolina  Orangeburg County

Quick Dates
Orangeburg County's civil records start the following years:

County Courthouse
Orangeburg County Courthouse 190 Gibson Street Orangeburg, SC 29115

Clerk of Court 190 Gibson Street Orangeburg, SC 29115 Phone: 803-533-6260 Court records

Register of Deeds 190 Gibson St. Orangeburg, SC 29116 Phone: 803-533-6235 Land records On-line Research

Probate Court 190 Gibson St. Orangeburg, SC 29116 Phone: 803-533-6280

Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday

History
The county is named after William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806).

Parent County
1769--Orangeburg County was created in 1769 from Colleton (old) and Berkeley (old) Counties. County seat:  Orangeburg 

Boundary Changes
"Rotating Formation South Carolina County Boundary Maps" (1682-1987) may be viewed for free at the My South Carolina Genealogy website. They rely on AniMap 3.0 software.

Record Loss

 * Many records were destroyed during the Civil War

Neighboring Counties

 * Aiken
 * Bamberg
 * Barnwell
 * Berkeley
 * Calhoun
 * Clarendon
 * Colleton
 * Dorchester
 * Lexington

Research Guides

 * South Carolina Archives Summary Guide: Orangeburg County, available online, courtesy: South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

African American

 * Heinegg, Paul. "'Other Free' Heads of Household in the 1790 South Carolina Census, by County," Free African Americans.com. [Includes free blacks in South Orangeburgh District.]
 * Morris-Crowther, Jayne. "An Economic Study of the Substantial Slaveholders of Orangeburg County, 1860-1880," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 86, No. 4 (Oct. 1985):296-314. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

Cemeteries

 * Elzas, Barnett A. The Jewish Cemetery at Orangeburg, S.C. Charleston, S.C.: B.A. Elzas, 1910. Digital version at Internet Archive.

Census
1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 federal population schedules of Orangeburg County are available online. For tips on accessing census records online, see South Carolina Census. If you're having trouble finding your ancestors in online indexes, try checking printed indexes. Created by local experts familiar with the area's families, these indexes are often transcribed more accurately than online nationwide indexes.

See South Carolina Population Schedule Indexes: Fiche, Film, or Book for more information about statewide printed indexes.

Church

 * Clute, Robert F. The Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish in South Carolina from 1680 to 1884. Charleston, S.C.: Evans &amp; Cogswell, 1884. ; digital versions at Ancestry ($); Google Books; another Google Books version; Internet Archive; World Vital Records ($).

Presbyterian


 * Estes, Frank B. History of Orangeburg Presbyterian Church 1835-1935. 1935. Digital version at Internet Archive.

DNA
DNA has been collected from men claiming descent from the following Charleston County residents. FamilySearch has not independently verified the lineages of those tested.

Family Histories
It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:


 * Locate publications about direct ancestors
 * Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
 * Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]

General

As of August 2010, a query for persons born in Orangeburg, South Carolina at World Connect, produces more than 20,000 results.

Surname indexes to Leonardo Andrea's Files | Folders | Resources are available online, courtesy: The Andrea Files: South Carolina Genealogical Research. Learn more.


 * Orangeburgh German-Swiss Genealogical Society. Orangeburgh Lineage Charts, Volume I. Orangeburg, S.C.: Orangeburgh German-Swiss Genealogical Society, 1991.

Message Boards


 * Orangeburg County, SC Family History and Genealogy Message Board (Ancestry)
 * Orangeburg County, SC Genealogy Forum (GenForum)

Bibliography


 * [Barton] Barton, W. Baynard and Fannie May Dooley Barton. Bartons of Charleston, South Carolina and Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Kingsport, Tenn.: Collier's Printing, 1983.
 * [Felder] Felder, Rice A. and Felder Publishing Fund. Descendants of James Addison Felder and Flavilla Shuler of Orangeburgh County, South Carolina. Columbia, S.C.: Felder Publishing Fund, 1980.
 * [Funchess] Linder, Billy Royce. The German Ancestry of the Orangeburg, South Carolina, Funchess Family. Arlington, Va.: B.R. Linder, 1997.
 * [Gleaton] Branch, Grace N. and A. Lorraine Gleaton. Genealogical Record of Joe (Isaac) Gleaton, Our Immigrant Ancestor of London, England, and Orangeburg County, South Carolina with Allied Families. Fla.: Gleaton, 1941. Item 5
 * [Gleaton] Branch, Grace N. and Gleaton Family Association. Gleaton Memorial Book of Remembrance: A Genealogical Record of Joseph Isaac Gleaton, Our Immigrant Ancestor of Orangeburg, South Carolina, with Allied Families. Lutz, Fla.: G.N.G. Branch, 1975.
 * [Goodwyn] "Dinwiddie Co., Va., Richland and Orangeburg Districts, S. C., Goodwyns," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1899):26-37. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * [Houser] Black, James M. A Record of the Houser Family of Orangeburg Dist., S.C. Typescript. Microfilmed 1972. Item 1
 * [Inabnit] Lefvendahl, Georgie Inabinet Adams. The Inabnit Family of South Carolina Volume III. Some of the Inabnit, Inabnet, Inabinett Families of Colleton, Charleston, and Lower Orangeburgh Districts and Counties. Orangeburg, S.C.: n.p., 1970.
 * [Livingston] Livingston, Lucius Wilmot. Historical and Genealogical Record of John Livingston the First of Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Orangeburg, S.C.: L.W. Livingston, 1940.
 * [Oliver] Lefvendahl, Georgie Inabinet Adams. Oliver - Sistrunk Families, Orangeburg Area, South Carolina. Typescript, 1964. Item 1
 * [Ott] Miller, Peggy Ann Easterling. "The Ott Family" of Orangeburg District. 1986.
 * [Segrest] Segrest, Freddie Hart and Phala Jordan Tatem. The Segrest Saga the Descendants of Henry and Margaret Segrest of Orangeburg, North [South] Carolina. n.p.: Hartline Publishing Co., 1994.
 * [Sistrunk] Lefvendahl, Georgie Inabinet Adams. Oliver - Sistrunk Families, Orangeburg Area, South Carolina. Typescript, 1964. Item 1
 * [Syfrett] Syfrett, Harold W. The book of Syfretts-Syphretts from Orangeburg, South Carolina 1752-1994. Charleston, S.C.: H.W. Syfrett, 1994.
 * [Tatum] Linder, Billy Royce. Christopher Tatum of Orangeburgh district, South Carolina; and Perry, Greene, and Jasper Counties in Mississippi, 1795-1870. Vienna, Va.: B.R. Linder, 1975.
 * [Vernadeau] Varnedoe, William W., R. Frank Varnado, Harrell D. Varnado, and Doris Varnado Green. The Family of Leonard Vernadeau and Sarah Hutto, Three Generations being a History of the Origin and First Three Generations of the Descendants of Leonard Vernadeau and Sarah Hutto of Orangeburg District, South Carolina. n.p.: The Descendants of Leonard Vernadeau, 1971.
 * [Wise] Bauer, William Rudolph. Reconstruction of the Genealogy of the Wise Family of the Congarees. Columbia, S.C.: W.R. Bauer, 2001.
 * [Young] Jenkins, Frank Duane. Genealogy William Young, Sr., Holland to Orangeburg, 1735. Ballinger, Texas: F.D. Jenkins, 1975.

Immigration

 * Orangeburgh German-Swiss Genealogical Society. Orangeburgh German Swiss Newsletter. 1981-.  Item 5
 * Orangeburgh German-Swiss Genealogical Society. Orangeburgh Immigrants and First Families. Orangeburg, S.C.: Orangeburgh German-Swiss Genealogical Society, 1990.
 * Ravenel, Daniel. Liste des François et Suisses: From an Old Manuscript of French and Swiss Protestants Settled in Charleston, on the Santee and at the Orange Quarter in Carolina, Who Desired Naturalization, Prepared Probably about 1695-6. 1822; reprint, New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1888. ; digital version at World Vital Records ($).

Land
Plats For State Land Grants 1784-1868

This series consists of recorded copies of plats for state land grants for the Charleston and the Columbia Series with their certificates of admeasurement or certification. All personal names and geographic features on these plats are included in the repository's On-line Index to Plats for State Land Grants

The South Carolina Constitution of 1790 required the surveyor general to maintain offices in both the new capital at Columbia and in Charleston. The surveyor general began to use separate volumes for recording plats in his Columbia office in 1796. Before that, all plats were recorded in the set of volumes begun in Charleston in 1784. After 1796, most plats for land grants in the Upper Division of the state were recorded and filed in Columbia. The surveyor general chose to make the Columbia volumes a continuation of the state plat volumes begun in Charleston and gave the initial Columbia volume the number thirty-six to correspond with the number of the volume that had then been reached in the Charleston series. As a result, there are volumes numbered thirty-six through forty-three from each office, but the records in them are not duplicative.

Also included are the Plan Books containing Plats and Plans.

Local Histories

 * Salley, A.S. The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina: From Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War. Orangeburg, S.C.: R.L. Berry, 1898. ; 1969 reprint: ; ; digital versions at Google Books; Internet Archive; World Vital Records ($); another World Vital Records ($) version.

General

 * "Casualty list, Eutaw, 1781," Carolina Genealogist, Fall 1971, Issue 5. Heritage Paper : Danielsville, GA 30633.
 * Ruple, Jack D. Orangeburg documents. Little Rock, Arkansas : J.D. Ruple, c1987. Book 975.77 R28r Fiche 6010949

Revolutionary War

 * "Foot Rovers aka Raccoon Co., 1775," Rice Planter, Summer 2003, Volume 11, Issue 2. Rice Planter / Old St. Bartholomew Chapter : Columbia, SC.
 * "Wm. Paulling pension, 1832," Orangeburg German-Swiss Newsletter, Fall 2000, Volume 8, Issue 4. Orangeburg German Swiss Genealogical Society : Orangeburg, SC.
 * "Captain Jacob Rumph's company, 1783," Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, March 1964, Volume 98, Issue 3. Daughters of the American Revolution : Washington D.C.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog
 * Orangeburg County, South Carolina Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)