— Nathalie Sumter's Tomb, Home House Plantation 2012 © Beverly Christ —

Basic Information

• Location – Stateburg, Sumter County, St. Mark's Parish

  On Action Road, off Highway 261
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – No longer exists

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• ? – Revolutionary War hero General Thomas Sumter owned Home House Plantation.
  

• Early 1800s – General Sumter gave the plantation to his son and daughter-in-law Thomas Sumter Jr and Nathalie Delage Sumter (4, p. 7).
  

— Nathalie Sumter's Grave, Home House Plantation 2012 —
— © Beverly Christ —

Land

• General Sumter, his wife Mary, son Thomas Jr and daughter-in-law Nathalie are buried in the family graveyard.
  

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Richardson, Singleton, General Thomas Sumter, Sr., Thomas Sumter, Jr. and Natalie Delage Sumter
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• The house burned in the 1930s (3).
  

References & Resources

1. Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
    Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
    Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
   

2. Cassie Nicholes, Historical Sketches of Sumter County: Its birth and Growth (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1975)
    Order Historical Sketches of Sumter County: Its birth and Growth

3. Dean Long, General Thomas Sumter
   

4. Thomas Sumter Tisdale, Jr, An Account of Thomas Sumter's Life From 1782 Until his Death in 1832 - PDF, p. 7