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I am not sure if this thread is still active since the last entry was in 2001.
My last name is DeRamus (pronounced like Da-ray-mus) and I started researching
the genealogy of my family and while searching the last name, a lady from
Choctaw, Oklahoma contacted me and said she had the genealogy starting from a man named
Joseph Funderburk DeRamus.
His family were French, They fled France during the time when the families who had converted
from the Roman Catholic Church to Protestants and were being persecuted by the Catholics and
the King of France.
The Protestants were given a derogative name of Huguenots, and during this time, the King
gave orders to kill all the Huguenots. Many were killed but some fled to countries in Europe,
Africa and Asia. Joseph's ancestors fled to Switzerland, where Joseph was born. When he decided
to immigrate to America, he took a ship to South Carolina, in the Orangeburg District. He met
and later married Ann Phund. They were married by an Anglican Minister named Giessendanner (not sure
of the spelling.
He was born in Switzerland in a range between 1702-1724 (the year is not sure, because of so many
different accounts of his life. He died in 1802, in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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This account was given to me and the exact account is not sure. I have searched for his parents name
in France and Switzerland with no luck. If this helps, then I have accomplished a good deed.

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Thank You Very Much,
Chaplain Rodger D. DeRamus