We are the Sumter Family of the Columbia, Hopkins, and Gadsden areas of South Carolina. The family represented here are the children of Joseph Sumter born sometime in the 1860’s according to the South Carolina 1870 census records. We are the Descendants of JOSEPH (Josie) SUMTER and his children. Joseph Sumter, along with Matilda Williams Sumter, and Sallie Adams Sumter, had nineteen children, of whom fifteen lived to adulthood.

These children, some pictured to the right, are ANNIE Sumter, ELLEN Sumter (John Brown), SPENCER Sumter (Nan & ), THOMAS Sumter ( ), JANIE Sumter, MARY Sumter, NANCY Sumter (EJ), WILLIAM Sumter (Annie Johnson), KATIE Benson, JOSEPH Sumter, Jr, SELENA Sumter, LETTY Sumter, JAMES Sumter, HAMPTON Sumter (Mae), MAE BELL Sumter (John, Sr.), BERTHA Sumter ( ).