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Title: Marriage and death notices from the (Charleston, South Carolina) Mercury, 1822-1832 by Brent Holcomb ISBN: 0-913363-42-1 Publisher: SCMAR Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Unknown Binding

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Summary: Excellent substitute for missing vital records
Comment: The _Mercury_ is known throughout South Carolina because of it's "The Union Is Dissolved" headline in 1860, a copy of which hung on the wall in many libraries and courthouses throughout the state until only a few decades ago. Brent Holcomb also is well known, or should be, as probably the leading living authority on the genealogy of and records sources in South Carolina. Over the years, he has published dozens of volumes of "vital records" abstracted from newspapers - birth, marriage, death, and burial notices and even coroner's reports, to substitute for the official records that mostly began only in the 20th century. Holcomb's work always is more useful (and interesting) than that of many abstractors who record only bare names and dates because he provides context with a significant amount of the original article or obituary. E.g., "The deeply felt grief of a mourning family, for the premature death of a beloved brother, had scarcely settled into the calm of resignation ere relentless fate has consigned another to the silent tomb," . . . which certainly should alert the researcher to hunt for another record associated with this family. Then there's the death notice in June 1828 of William Taylor, "an active partizan in favor of our Independence during the Revolutionary War," and Capt. Robert Hatton of the brig Nautilus, who died at "Cape Messurado, Coast of Africa."