Camden Archives & Museum

Lunacy Records

Copies of lunacy records may be obtained for a fee of $10.00 each from the Camden Archives and Museum,
Att: Lunacy Records, 1314 Broad Street, Camden SC, 29020, or by visiting the Archives and Museum.

Click on the first letter of the last name of the record for which you are searching. Dates listed represent the date of admission to the state mental institution. The Letter "W" designates records marked "White", the letter "C" designates records marked "Colored".

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• Adams, Alfred, c, 31 Nov 1911
• Adamson, Eliza, c, 26 June 1918
• Adamson, Ulivia, c, 8 Dec 1921
• Addison, Hepran H., w, 12 June 1916
• Alexander, Mrs W.S., w, 14 Oct 1916
• Alexander, Rosa, c, 21 Mar 1916
• Arlathon, John, c, 16 Feb 1900
• Arledge, Mary, c, 2 July 1920
• Armstrong, Amy Blair, c, 9 May 1911
• Arrants, Jessie, w, 16 Oct 1913
• Arrants, Margaret Rodgers, w, 26 Oct 1899
• Atkin, Stepney, c, 18 Oct 1916
• Atkins, Mary Salmond, c, 5 Nov 1907
• Atkinson, Manuel, w, 21 Mar 1914

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• Bailey, Benjamin G., w, 17 Feb 1906
• Bailey, Elise L., c, 9 May 19, 1911
• Bailey, Janie, ?, 13 Oct 1916
• Baker, William James, w, 30 Oct 1905
• Ballard, Lang, c, 11 May 1900
• Ballard, Martha, c, 17 May 1900
• Barnes, Duncan, w, 17 May 1900
• Barnes, Elizabeth Cunningham, w, 1 Oct 1900
• Belk, John, w, 6 Mar 1916
• Bell, West, c, 3 July 1916
• Belton, C. S., c, 10 May 1920
• Belton, Cornelilus, b, 5 July 1921
• Benson, Elizabeth Brunson, c, 16 Sept 1899
• Biddle, Evalina, c, 26 Apr 1909
• Bishop, Francis, Boykin, c, 24 Sept 1910
• Blythe, Harriett, c, 15 Apr 1927
• Boone, John Alexander, w, 3 Jun 1921
• Bowen, Burrell A., w, 22 Sept 1902
• Boyd, Mittie Pickney, c, 4 Jan 1912
• Boykin, Edward Mortimer, w, 24 Dec 1915
• Boykin, Jesse, c, 13 Jul 1913
• Boykin, John Lee, c, 15 Nov 1915
• Boykin, Wesley, c, 15 Mar 1921
• Bracy, John, w, 18 July 1921
• Bracy, Rose, c, 5 Sept 1913
• Bradley, Mary Morgan, w, 1 July 1913
• Bradley, Samuel P., w, 21 June 1898
• Bradley, Willie W., w, 9 Feb 1914
• Branham, Jerry, w, 8 Dec 1902
• Brasington, Annie Truesdell, c, 10 Nov 1910
• Brasington, Eliza Shiver, w, 7 July 1905
• Brazell, Naomi, w, 8 Sept 1930
• Brevard, David, c, 5 July 1912
• Brown, Anna, ?, 10 Oct 1895
• Brown, Carrie,c, 9 Aug 1897
• Brown, Eugene, c, 19 Feb 1915
• Brown, Eugene, c, 19 Feb 1915
• Brown, Hattie Ross, w, 3 Feb 1919
• Brown, Mahalie Addison, c, 2 Dec 1909
• Brown, Mary Alexander, c, 8 Jan 1914
• Brown, Mary, c, 30 Sept. 1912
• Brown, Mrs. Susan, w, 26 Aug 1921
• Brown, Rebecca Jackson, c, 14 Sept 1918
• Brown, Wallace, c, 12 Dec 1905
• Brown, William, c, 20 Nov 1916
• Brown, William, c, 26 Jan 1914
• Brown, William, c, 28 Nov 1910
• Brunson, Janette Truesdell, c, 21 Apr 1913
• Busch, Mary Elizabeth Youngblood, w, 12 Nov 1918
• Butler, John, c, 11 Jan 1912

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• Caldwell, Eliza Clark, c, 5 Jan 1917
• Campbell, Lizzie, w, 30 May 1904
• Campbell, Marie L. DeKay, w, 4 Aug 1920
• Campbell, Mary A., w, 2 Jan 1906
• Campbell, Mrs. Marie L., w, 25 Oct 1921
• Capers, Tillie, c, 30 Sept 1916
• Carlos, Blaine, c, 4 June 1918
• Carlos, Ethel Lowry, c, 19 May 1916
• Carolina, Willie, c, 16, Aug 1914
• Carter, Charles,c, 13 Dec 1902
• Carter, Jane Perkins, c, 11 Jan 1919
• Carter, John Nelson, ?, preacher, Methodist
• Cassady, Mrs Carrie Hall, w, 6 Apr 1914
• Catoe, Elizabeth, w, 7 Nov 1921
• Catoe, Mrs. Nannie Clark, w, 3 May 1921
• Champion, Martisha, c, 18 May 1904
• Clarke, Mary Mickle, c, 15 Oct 1901
• Clifton, Frank, c, 6 May 1897
• Clyburn, Aggie Deas, c, 13 Mar 1912
• Clyburn, Roderick, c, 26 Nov 1902
• Collins, Mack Dunlap, c, 26 apr 1920
• Cook, Henry, c, ????
• Cooper, Maggie Davis, c, 24 June 1897
• Copeland, Mary Jane, w, 17 July 1905
• Craft, Lavinia Richardson, w, 12 Apr 1917
• Croft, Sallie, w, 29 Sept 1905
• Cunningham, Annie B., w, 26 June 1912
• Cureton, Lewis, c, 9 Mar 1912

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• Davis, A.L.,w, 16 Dec 1908
• Davis, Lenah Hayes, c, 18 Jul 1910
• Davis, Thomas H., w, 16 Jan 1919
• Deas, Jane Thompson, c, 26 Feb 1919
• DeBar, Martha, c, 17 June 1902
• DeSaussure, Mrs S. A. Gamewell, w, 20 Feb 1907
• Dinkins, Seisin,?, 21 Dec 1894 male, farmer
• Dixon, Leonard, w, 26 May 1902
• Doby, Sam, c, 16 Nov 1900
• Dority, Minnie Moore, w, 6 May 1912
• Dow, Mary McLeod, c, 13 Mar 1921
• DuBose, Lizzie Brunson, c, 24 Feb 1905
• DuBose, Thomas, c, 28 Aug 1911
• Duren, Adam, c, 28 Oct 1916
• Dye, Moses,c, 10 Apr 1909

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• English, James, w, 16 Feb 1917
• Evans, Leila, w, 4 Oct 1909

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• Faulkenberry, Jesse E., w, 20 May 1919
• Fleming, Julius, c, 25 May 1907
• Flowers, Lilla Carnish, c, 9 Oct 1914
• Floyd, Lester, c, 7 Nov 1918
• Ford, Bessie Belton, c, 6 Jan 1916
• Ford, Bessie Doby, c, 6 Nov 1911
• Fortune, Hester, Williams, c, 26 June 1913
• Francis, William, w, 21 July 1900

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• Galloway, Lillie James, w, 22 Aug 1915
• Gardner, Tom, c, 23 Jan 1913
• Gary, Stephen, c, 7 Feb 1918
• Gaskins, Ezekiel, w, 18 Feb 1913
• Gaskins, Leander,c,21 Oct 1903
• George, Henry, b, 1903
• Gerald, Miss Alice, w, 2 Jan 1917
• Gibbs, Susan A., w, 5 June 1916
• Goff, Arthur,c, 3 Jul 1897
• Goff, Jesse, w, 12 Apr 1912
• Goff, Lula Hammond, w, 11 July 1912
• Goodale, Charles B., w, 28 May 1904
• Grantham, Jesse, ?, 7 Nov 1895
• Green, Agnes, c, 14 Oct 1927
• Green, Louisa, c, 5 Sept 1905
• Green, Lucy Kennedy, c, ????
• Gripper, Sip, c, 17 June 1917

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• Hales, Ellen Stokes, w, 27 Feb 1899
• Hall, Lucindia English, c, 30 Mar 1904
• Hall, William Wiley, w, Sept 1896
• Hammond, Geo., ?, 8 June 1898
• Hollis, Dave, c, 17 Jan 1914
• Horton, Elizabeth Jane, w, 3 Dec 1917
• Horton, Ellison, c, 24 Aug 1912
• Horton, Lewis,c, 5 June 1901
• Horton, Lizzie, w, 14 Feb 1913
• Hough, Amos, c, 8 Mar 1901
• Hough, Ben, w, 12 Sept 1919
• Hough, J. H., w, 15 Nov 1913
• Houser, Mrs. C.E., w, 20 Jul 1906
• Howard, Adaline, c, 12 July 1921
• Howard, Alice, c, 10 Sept 1920
• Huckabee, Lillie James,w, 26 Aug 1915
• Huckabee, Robert L., w, 25 Feb 1899
• Hughes, Sallie E.Lyles, w, 22 Feb 1904
• Hunter, Jesse, w, 4 Mar 1912
• Hunter,Martha Elizabeth Baker, w, 7 Oct 1913
• Hurst, Mrs. Ella McGrady, w, 24 Oct 1927

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• Ingram, Hannah Conners, c, 10 Mar 1915

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• Jackson, Daphne, w, 14 June 1903
• Jackson, Mrs Mariah Bethany, w, 27 Aug 1919
• Jackson, William, Sr.,c, 29 Oct 1916
• Jacobs, B. Z., w, 4 Oct 1902
• James, Bina, c, 22 Mar 1919
• James, Ed, c, 2 June 1913
• James, Randal, c, 3 May 1920
• James, Reuben,c, 24 Aug 1909
• Jeffers, Sallie Frances, w, 12 Feb 1918
• Jefferson, Margaret Carter, c, 10 Apr 1901
• Jenkins, John, c, 24 May 1918
• Jennings, Ransom, c, 13 July 1916
• Johnson, Alice Vaughn, c, 29 May 1906
• Johnson, Beatrice, w ,4 Aug 1917
• Johnson, Beckie B., c, 18 Apr 1912
• Johnson, Catherine,?, 20 Apr 1881
• Johnson, Francis, c, 29 June 1916
• Johnson, Mary ,?, 30 May 1881
• Johnson, Thomas, ?, 8 Mar 1912
• Jones, Ada Maud, w, 21 Jul 1901
• Jones, Elsie Davis, c, 20 Apr 1914
• Jones, John W., w, 9 Apr 1918
• Jones, Rosa, c, 26 June 1916
• Jones, Silvy, c, 20 Sept 1928

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• Keels, Marie, w, 1 Jan 1921
• Kelly, Joe, c, 1917
• Kelly, Joe. c, 25 Aug 1913
• Kelly, John, c, 27 June 1918
• Kennedy, Francis (Fannie), c, 17 Dec 1908
• Kershaw, Hannah Richardson, c, 21 May 1920
• King, R.H., c, 30 June 1881
• Kirby, L. R., w, 12 Sept 1918
• Kirkland, Maggie Brown, c, 26 Nov 1918
• Kirkland, William R., w, 28 Jul 1896
• Knox, Burrell, c, 1 Nov 1897

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• Lang, Carrie, c, 1 July 1915
• Lang, Louise C. Salmond, w, 28 Jan 1918
• Lang, Thos. W., w, 9 Aug 1915
• Latham, Douglas M., w, 27 June 1912
• Latham, William T., w, 14 Dec 1903
• Lenix, RebeccaClarkson,c, 26 Apr 1902
• Lenix,Bertha, c, 20 Aug 1915
• Lewis, Minnie, c, 30 Oct 1908
• Lineberger, Maydell, w, 1901
• Little, Samuel Harvey, w, 3 Aug 1915
• Livingston, George S., w,21 Aug 1909
• Loning, Gus, c, 17 Sept 1906
• Lorick, Solomon, w, 17 Jun 1894

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• Mackey, Eliza Jane, w, 21 Aug 1903
• Mackey, Henry J., w, 10 Dec 1916
• Manning, Colin Clark, w, 28 Apr 1899
• Maree, Isabel Carlock, w, 24 Feb 1916
• Maree, Laura Roberts, w, 4 Nov 1913
• Martin, London, c, 23 Apr 1919
• McClendon, Alfred, c, 10 Nov 1915
• McClester, Elizabeth, c, 27 Apr 1914
• McCormic, Willie, c, Feb 19 1918
• McCoy, Margaret, c, 10 Jul 1911
• McDonald, Dorcas M. Haile. c, 7 Oct 1915
• McLauchlin, Isaac,mul, 28 July 1900
• McLeod, Henry, c, 11 May 1900
• McNeil, Perry Austin, c, 20 Nov 1909
• McQueen, Kate, w, 19 Sept 1911
• Mickle, Ed, c, 5 July 1913
• Mickle, Robert English, w, 20 Aug 1910
• Miles, Josephine, c, 4 Sept 1914
• Miles, Margaret, c, 31 May 1919
• Miller, Carrie, c, 29 May 1916
• Miller, Dennis, c, 25 Sept 1916
• Miller, Hattie, c, 5 Dec 1913
• Miller, Melissa Wise, w, 14 Apr 1913
• Miller, Sebron, w, 27 June1921
• Mills, Frank, c, 20 Jan 1902
• Mobley, Martha A., w, 2, Jan 1904
• Mobley, William C., w, 22 Aug 1917
• Moore, Duncan, Patrick, w, 20 Sept 1913
• Moore, John A., w, 16 May 1903
• Moore, John,c, 23 Sept 1914
• Moseley, E., w, 15 Dec 1911
• Motley, Artie L., w, 20 May 1904
• Mungo, Boyan Cash, c, 17 Nov 1920
• Munn, A.J., w, 29 Aug 1919
• Murphy, Lydia, c, 17 Sept 1901

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• Nicholson, James, w, 4 Mar 1910
• Nicholson, Sallie, w, 18 Dec 1912
• Norris, Jesse B., w, 9 Aug 1915
• Northcutt, Mrs. Mary Jane Kelly, 22 Jun 1902

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• Oliver, Pretty Reaves, c, 27 Mar 1912
• Outlaw, Rozier, w, 26 Apr 1905

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• Patterson, Irene, c, 20 July 1916
• Peay, Ann Wheeler,c, 7 July 1910
• Pegues, Margerite L. Williams, w, 23 Feb 1906
• Pemberton, Clarisa, ?, 5 January 1895
• Perry, William, c, 25 Aug 1913
• Peterson, Lizzie, c, 8 September 1910
• Pierson, Louisa, w, 30 July 1910
• Porter, Theodore A., w, 28 Nov 1916
• Posey, Alfred, c, 21 Feb 1917
• Powell, Alfred, ?, 25 Feb. 1881
• Pursley, Cora Cooksy, w, 28 Jan 1905

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• At this time, we have no adoption records beginning with this letter.

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• Raley, Joe, c, 19 Mar 1905
• Raley, Sandy Sowell, c, 9 Jan 1919
• Reed, Christine, w, 21 June 1920
• Reed, Louise, c, 12 Nsov 1921
• Reynolds, Minnie, w, 16 Feb 1900
• Richardson, Ancrum, c, 11 Apr 1905
• Richardson, Bertha, w, 10 Aug 1930
• Riles, Evans V., w, 25 Aug 1927
• Roberts, Peter M., w, 18 July 1923
• Robinson, Celia, c, 21 Feb 1921
• Robinson, Jimmie, c, 28 Sept
• Robinson, Mary, c, 20 Dec 1904
• Robinson, Warren, c, 17 July 1920
• Rodgers, Vermelle, w, 20 Oct 1898
• Ross, Celia Jackson, c, 18 Dec 1916
• Rush, John Jason, w, 11 July 1901
• Rush, Sam, Jr.,c, 29 May 1912
• Rutledge, Robert, c, 22 Jan 1917
• Rutledge, Sam, c, 29 Jan 1914

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• Salmond, Mariah, c, 16 Oct 1897
• Saxton, Katie, c, 21 Sept 1898
• Scott, Relia, c, 24 Jan 1907
• Segars, w, 22 Aug 1898
• Shannon, Allison E., ?, 19 Sept 18831883
• Shields, Willie Mena, c, 26 July 1912
• Shipley, M. F., w, 14 Nov 1906
• Simmons, Monroe, c, 13 Sept 1917
• Singleton, Coney, c, 29 Aug 1902
• Small, Martha Moseley, w, 20 Feb 1912
• Smith, Eugenia Truesdell, w, 6 May 1913
• Smith, Neill Achibald, w, 30 Oct 1903
• Smith, T.F., w, 8 Nov 1909
• Smith, Thomas Burnett, w, 3 Mar 1920
• Smyrl, Peter, c, 28 Apr 1899
• Sowell, Mrs. Willine Britton, w, 18 Jan 1927
• Spradley, Mrs Margaret E. Smith, w, 6 Sept 1915
• Stepney, Amy, c,10 Apr 1918,
• Stewart, Emma w, 29 Apr 1918
• Storey, Ty, c, 7 Feb 1920
• Stratford, Ellen Bolder, ? 29 Aug 1919
• Sutton, Ellie,c, 30 Oct 1916
• Sutton, Jack, w, 10 Feb 1913

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• Taylor, Julia, c, 4 Sept 1897
• Taylor, Maggie, c, 26 Apr 1906
• Taylor, Robert L., w, 23 Mar 1912
• Thomas, Margaret, w, 22 Sept 1903
• Thompson, Charlotte, c, 22 Apr 1905
• Thompson, Lelia, c, 23 Nov 1906
• Thompson, Mahalie Brown, c, 4 Nov 1911
• Tidwell, S.J., w, 3 Oct 1930
• Timbers, John, c, 27 Sept 1917
• Tobias, Pauline, w, 15 Sept 1894
• Trantham, W.D., w, 28 Apr 1908
• Trapp, Ida, w, 27 Sept 1915
• Trapp, William James, w, 27 Sept 1915
• Truesdale, Kathleen, Sanders, w, 11 Mar 1918
• Truesdell, Celia, c, 29 May 1905
• Tucker, Emma, c, 2 July 1908
• Twitty, Sara E. Falkenberry, w, 2 Apr 1917

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• At this time, we have no lunacy records beginning with this letter.

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• Vincent, Henry, c, 1 May 1911

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• Wages, Henrietta Cook, w, 29 Jan 1914
• Waldon, Mrs. Donnie, w, 18 Feb 1921
• Watkins, Henrietta Massey, c, 20 Apr 1901
• Watkins, Jane Cornelious, c, 14 July 1998
• West, Amos A., w, 28 May 1919
• West, Benjamin, w,27 Dec 1900
• West, Lee, w, 17 Oct 1918
• West, Mary E. Mangum, w, 24 Apr 1902
• Wheeler, Charity, c, 9 Sept 1916
• Wheeler, Ella Moore, c, 26 Dec 1918
• Wheeler, Ella, c, 26 July 1921
• Wheeler, Henry,c, 27 June 1905
• Whistler, Kermin Garrard, w, 8 Jan 1918
• Whitaker, Edward H., c, 14 May 1915
• Whitaker, John C., w, 28 Aug 1917
• Whitaker, Seifo, c, 10 Sept 1915
• Whitaker, William, w, 21 Apr 1920
• White, Della, c, 12 Dec 1898
• Whithowsky, Henry Leroy, w, 11 Mar 1920
• Williams, James, c, 10 Oct 1910
• Williams, John C.P., w, 14 Mar 1900
• Williams, Nazarine Harris, c, 16 June 1913
• Williams, Nellie, w, 16 Nov 1915
• Wilson, Isiah, c, 7 July 1923
• Wilson, John Wesley, w, 19 June 1914
• Wilson, Martha, w, 28 July 1913
• Wingate, Andrew J., w, 25 Sept 1901
• Wingate, W. M. D., w, 28 Aug 1901
• Wolst, Margaret Thompson, c, 21 Aug 1919
• Workman, Katrina Oatwood, w, 29 Apr 1896
• Workman, Virginia, w, 5 Jul 1919

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• At this time, we have no lunacy records beginning with this letter.

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• Yarborough, Martha, w, 15 Nov 1898
• Yarborough, Mary Bethune, w, 29 Jul 1915
• Young, John, c, 25 Sept 1920
• Young, Mattie Douglas, w, 28 Apr 1906

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• At this time, we have no lunacy records beginning with this letter.