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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 10, 2011
Caption:
Memory Hill Cemetery, Samuel Beckcom (Beckham) | Additional Description: (Nov. 21,1760-Nov. 2, 1825) served in the Revolutionary
War as a Lieutenant and later a Captain in
Colonel William Thompson’s Regiment of
South Carolina Rangers. He also commanded
a rifle company for the greater part of the war
under Gen. Elijah Clarke. He was wounded at
the Siege of Augusta. After the war in about
1802 he commanded militia at Fort Hawkins
(in Macon). (Memory Hill Cemetery tour)
Submitted: May 12, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p153037
File Size: 0.258 Megabytes
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