Did one of these agencies handled your adoption?
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Charleston, SC
1662 Ingram Road
Charleston, SC 29407
Phone: (843) 402-9115 ext. 15
Fax: (843) 402-9071
1662 Ingram Road
Charleston, SC 29407
Phone: (843) 402-9115 ext. 15
Fax: (843) 402-9071
Director of Catholic Charities: Deacon Edward Peitler, Ph.D.
Coordinator: Jennifer Elkins
Believe that they are now doing Open Adoptions
They charge for background information which is usually between 1-3 pages cost is around $60.00 and another $40.00 to be in their registry
The Children's Bureau closed several years ago - and their records were turned over to the SC Dept of Social Services. If the adoption went thru the Children's Bureau and adoptee or birth parent can request the background info from SC Dept of Social Services.
South Carolina Department of Social Services
Debra Kent
Cheryl Sherring
Cathy Fitz
Adoption Reunion Registry
PO Box 1520
Columbia, SC 29202-1520
(803) 734-6095
(800) 922-2504
We have several articles on the children's bureau but if you haven't see their agreement
DSS - Department of Social Services - State Government
Important thing to remember is that DSS only has records of the adoptions that went thru the state. If your adoption was a private or agency adoption, then DSS will not have your records. Currently they are about 9-10 months behind on getting non id out to adoptees and there is a charge for the non-id. Also the state does have a registry for those that went thru DSS (which includes the Children's Bureau) There is charge to be placed on the registry there. Under SC law if they make a match thru the registry there is a required 4 hr of counseling before information can be released (believe that expense is on the individual and not covered by any state funds.
South Carolina Department of Social Services
S C Dept of Social Services
803-898-7556
Adoption Reunion Registry (maintained by the state and only for state adoptions)
PO Box 1520
Columbia, SC 29202-1520
(803) 734-6095
(800) 922-2504
South Carolina Department of Social Services
S C Dept of Social Services
803-898-7556
Adoption Reunion Registry (maintained by the state and only for state adoptions)
PO Box 1520
Columbia, SC 29202-1520
(803) 734-6095
(800) 922-2504
Love Life Ministries -closed
Mayfield Children's Home / Kershaw Children's Home - Closed
Mayfield Children's Home/ Kershaw Children's Home ........The Mayfield Children's Home, later known as The Kershaw County Children's Home, existed in Camden, South Carolina from the 1930s to the 1980s. Many adoptions occurred at the Home and the known surviving records from 1930s through the 1950s are housed at the Camden Archives and Museum. They have a listed the records on file of the adoptive parents. Many of the adoption records are sketchy and incomplete. The files are considered sensitive information. Anyone interested in a record should write the Camden Archives and Museum at 1314 Broad Street, Camden, South Carolina 29020 or call 803-425-6050.
Maternity Shelter - Greenville, SC - Now Closed
Maternity Shelter was in Greenville The shelter was open from the 1930's to the 1960's They did arrange adoptions. Also check out their newsgroup
Dorothy Pedrick Peace, widow of Bony Hampton Peace Jr., died Monday, Feb.. 16, 2004, at her home, 39 Sirrine Drive. She was 94.
Born in Pedricktown, N.J., she was the daughter of the late Hamilton G. and Elizabeth Perry Pedrick.
Mrs. Peace was a graduate of Beaver College in Jenkintown, Pa., where she majored in Elementary Education. She later received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Furman University.
Mrs. Peace had been a member of First Baptist Church, Greenville since 1930, was a member of the Hoyt Lake Sunday School Class, and former chairman of the Lady's Prayer Group. She had been active with the church's Cradle Roll and WMU.
Mrs. Peace had been active in many civic groups, including the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, where she was an honorary life member, the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Greenville Symphony Association, the Sarah Simpson Gossett Home, which she served as president, the Maternity Shelter and Children's Center. She was a benefactor of St. Francis Hospital, the History Museum of Up State South Carolina, the South Carolina Governor's School for Arts and Humanities, the Baptist Seminary at Richmond, and others.
She was a member of the Mayflower Society in the state of New Jersey and volunteered in the Phyllis Wheatly Library in Greenville for many years.
Among her many other civic activities, she funded the Dorothy and B.H. Peace Professorship in Religion at Furman University.
Surviving are three daughters, Elizabeth (Mrs. Edward H.) Stall, of Greenville, Mrs. Judith Harte, and her husband, N. Norfleet Harte, of Pinehurst, N.C., and Estelle McClary, and her husband, Salters S. McClary, of Georgetown; a son, Bony Hampton Peace III, and his wife, Dianne, of Georgetown; and a brother, John Paul Pedrick, of Pedricktown, N.J. Also surviving are thirteen grandchildren, Pedrick Stall Lowrey, Edward Holmes Stall Jr., Russell Hampton Stall, Chandler Cobb, Dorothy Miller, Judith Fournier, Nelson Harte III, Elizabeth Stokes, Salters McClary, Stella Barefoot, Bony H. Peace IV, Perry C. Peace and James A. Peace; and twenty-five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Peace was predeceased by two brothers, Allison Pedrick and Hamilton Pedrick, of Pedricktown; a sister, Betty Tull; and a great-granddaughter, Walker Peace.
Private graveside services will be in Springwood Cemetery, prior to a memorial celebration Wednesday at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church.
Services will be conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Greenville.
Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 847 Cleveland St., Greenville, 29601.
The Mackey Mortuary, Century Drive.
Published in The Greenville News: 02-17-2004
Dorothy Peace
Greenville ObitDorothy Pedrick Peace, widow of Bony Hampton Peace Jr., died Monday, Feb.. 16, 2004, at her home, 39 Sirrine Drive. She was 94.
Born in Pedricktown, N.J., she was the daughter of the late Hamilton G. and Elizabeth Perry Pedrick.
Mrs. Peace was a graduate of Beaver College in Jenkintown, Pa., where she majored in Elementary Education. She later received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Furman University.
Mrs. Peace had been a member of First Baptist Church, Greenville since 1930, was a member of the Hoyt Lake Sunday School Class, and former chairman of the Lady's Prayer Group. She had been active with the church's Cradle Roll and WMU.
Mrs. Peace had been active in many civic groups, including the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, where she was an honorary life member, the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Greenville Symphony Association, the Sarah Simpson Gossett Home, which she served as president, the Maternity Shelter and Children's Center. She was a benefactor of St. Francis Hospital, the History Museum of Up State South Carolina, the South Carolina Governor's School for Arts and Humanities, the Baptist Seminary at Richmond, and others.
She was a member of the Mayflower Society in the state of New Jersey and volunteered in the Phyllis Wheatly Library in Greenville for many years.
Among her many other civic activities, she funded the Dorothy and B.H. Peace Professorship in Religion at Furman University.
Surviving are three daughters, Elizabeth (Mrs. Edward H.) Stall, of Greenville, Mrs. Judith Harte, and her husband, N. Norfleet Harte, of Pinehurst, N.C., and Estelle McClary, and her husband, Salters S. McClary, of Georgetown; a son, Bony Hampton Peace III, and his wife, Dianne, of Georgetown; and a brother, John Paul Pedrick, of Pedricktown, N.J. Also surviving are thirteen grandchildren, Pedrick Stall Lowrey, Edward Holmes Stall Jr., Russell Hampton Stall, Chandler Cobb, Dorothy Miller, Judith Fournier, Nelson Harte III, Elizabeth Stokes, Salters McClary, Stella Barefoot, Bony H. Peace IV, Perry C. Peace and James A. Peace; and twenty-five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Peace was predeceased by two brothers, Allison Pedrick and Hamilton Pedrick, of Pedricktown; a sister, Betty Tull; and a great-granddaughter, Walker Peace.
Private graveside services will be in Springwood Cemetery, prior to a memorial celebration Wednesday at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church.
Services will be conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Greenville.
Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 847 Cleveland St., Greenville, 29601.
The Mackey Mortuary, Century Drive.
Published in The Greenville News: 02-17-2004
Tender Loving Care - PTL Now Closed
Remember Jim and Tammy Baker - They had in their ministries Tender Loving Care. Please contact us for more information TLC NewsGroup
Agencies that have operated in S C - from Reg Niles Book
| City/County | Agency |
Aiken |
County Agency - Aiken, S.C. |
| Salvation Army Home | |
| Anderson (Anderson Co) | County Agency - Anderson, S.C. |
| Batesburg (Lexington and Baluda Counties) | Saint Euphrasia School for Girls |
| Beaufort | County Agency - Beaufort County Dept of Public Welfare |
| Belton (Anderson County | Boys Home of the South |
| Camden (Kershaw County) | Children's Home |
| Cayce (Lexington County) | Wilkinson Home for Girls |
| Charleston (Charleston County) | Associated Charities |
| Catholic Charities | |
| Charleston Home for Dependent Children | |
| Charleston Orphan House | |
| City Orphan Home | |
| County Agency - Charleston, S.C. | |
| Florence Crittenton Home | |
| Hebrew Orphan Society | |
| Jenkins Orphanage | |
| Juvenile Welfare | |
| Oak Grove (North Charleston) | |
| Clinton (Laurens County) | Tornwell Orphanage |
| Columbia (Richland County) | Carlisle Courtenay |
| Carolina Children's Home | |
| Catholic Social Services of Columbia | |
| Child Placing Bureau | |
| Children's Bureau of S. C. | |
| County Agency - Columbia, S.C. | |
| Door of Hope | |
| Epworth Children's Home | |
| Family Services Center | |
| S.C. Children's Bureau | |
| S.C. Children's Home Society | |
| South Carolina Industrial School for girls | |
| State of South Carolina | |
| State School for Girls | |
| Williamson Orphanage | |
| Conway (Horry County) | County Agency |
| Darlington (Darlington County) | County Agency |
| Florence | County Agency |
| Florence Altrusa Foster Home | |
| S.C. Industrial School for Boys | |
| Greenville (Greenville County) | Booth Memorial Hospital |
| Boys' Home of the South, Inc | |
| Bruner Home | |
| County Agency | |
| Family and Children's Service | |
| Greenacre | |
| Juvenile Protection Association | |
| Maternity Shelter | |
| Odd Fellows' Orphan Home | |
| Piedmont Women's Center | |
| Salvation Army | |
| Travelers Aid Society | |
| Wheatley Association | |
| Greenwood (Greenwood County) | Connie Maxwell Children's Home |
| Lexington (Lexington County) | County Agency |
| McCormick | John De La Howe Industrial School |
| Moncks Corner (Berkeley County) | County Agency |
| Newberry (Newberry County) | Industrial School for White Boys |
| North Charleston (Charles Co) | Charleston Orphan House |
| Oak Grove | |
| Orangeburg (Orangeburg County) | County Agency |
| Orangeburg Attention Home | |
| Pickens (Pickens County) | County Agency |
| Rock City (Chester County) | Tender Loving Care Adoption Agency - PTL |
| Spartanburg (Spartanburg County) | County Agency |
| Family Counseling and Service Center | |
| Southern Home Institute | |
| Spartanburg County Orphanage | |
| Sumter (Sumter County) | County Agency |
| John K Crosswell Home | |
| Sumter Children's Home | |
| Tamassee (Oconee County) | Tamassee D.A.R. School |
| Turbeville (Clarendon County) | Free Will Baptist Home |
| Willington (McCormick County) | John De La Howe industrial School |
| York (York County) | County Agency |
| Episcopal Church Home |