Oconee County, South Carolina Census

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Our transcriber of many of the Oconee censuses below, is Ross Emmet Jones. Ross has given South Carolina Genealogy permission to place his transcribed data here.  Ross has transcribed ALL the census columns, but if there was no data within a column, I have omitted that column to speed up your download time.

A little about Ross:  He was born in Delaware but raised in southern California and now is retired, living in Redmond, WA.

His grandmother, Olivia Edwards Osborne, daughter of Lulu Lanier and William Richard Osborne came from Oconee County - therefore his interest in our Oconee County. His mother's father, Walter Donaldson Hopkins, was a laborer who worked for Olivia's father. In 1913, they left South Carolina and moved to Franklin Co., Georgia.

Ross had worked for North American Aviation/Rockwell (areospace) from 1952-1975. From there he worked for Martin Marietta on the Space Shuttle's External Tank in New Orleans, Florida and then California.

Ross found that his father's great-grandfather was the enumerator for the 1850 Federal census for Washington Co., Georgia. Ross decided to transcirbe censuses, submitting his work to FREE genealogy sites. He reports that he has transcribed 70+ Federal Censuses, including all of Washington Co., GA. Any questions can be directed to him or to the host of this site.

Anderson, Oconee, Pickens Counties, known as the ("Golden Corner"), must ALL be searched when doing your family research in the early 1800's because of how these counties were formed.  

In 1789 Pendleton County was formed as part of the 96th Judicial District from Indian Land.

In 1795 Pendleton County was placed in the Washington Judicial District.

In 1799, Pendleton County was named Pendleton District by the State legislature and Washington Judicial District was discontinued.

In 1826/27, Pendleton District was divided into the Anderson & Pickens Districts.

In 1868 the state legislature decided to change all districts to counties.

Current-day Anderson County represents the old Anderson District.

Current-day Pickens County represents part of old Pickens District.

Current-day Oconee County represents part of old Pickens County & added Indian Land.

In 1986, Pickens County annexed Oconee land that included Clemson College & area extending SE to Anderson County.

This is a work in progress - please check back to see what has been finished.

1870 - Mortality Schedule

Census Forms

1880 Census:

1900 Census:

1920 Census:

Census Forms

1930 Census:  (Currently Under Construction)

Census Forms

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