To the Valiant Citizen-Soldiers of Pickens County
To the Valiant Citizen-Soldiers of Pickens County who Answered their Call to Duty and Made the Supreme Sacrifice
For our future generations, their youth, they gave away, never again to see the land between the Oolenoy River Valley and the Keowee River
Remember always their valor...For they are of us...Pickens...A County That Went to War
Carolina Indian Wars
1760
British Army Lieutenant Richard Coytmore
Unknown British Soldier
Twenty-two Cherokee Indian Chiefs
Fort Prince George, a British Army Garrison, was constructed in 1753 on the eastern bank of the Keowee River by order of colonial South Carolina's Governor Glenn. in 1759, British Army Lieutenant Richard Coytmore was assigned as the new commander of Fort Prince George. Tensions were continuously mounting between the British and the Cherokee Nation. On February 16, 1760, Coytmore and two others were ambushed by the Cherokee at the river's edge. Coytmore was mortally wounded during the skirmish. In retaliation, the twenty-two Cherokee Indian chiefs being held prisoner within the fort were executed. This is the first military engagement recorded in the history of Pickens County where the loss of life was incurred.
War of American Independence
1776
Francis Salvador
1747-1776
Killed August 1st, 1776, along the Seneca
River near what is today Clemson
University while a volunteer in an
expedition against the Cherokee
First person of the Jewish faith to hold
public office in South Carolina and to die
for American independence
In 1773 Salvador emigrated as a young man to near present-day Greenwood
(then part of the Ninety-Six Judicial District of South Carolina)
He served in the Committee to Enforce the Continental Association in Ninety-Six District (1775), and as a member of South Carolina's first and second provincial congresses (1775, and 1776-78), and of the first General assembly of South Carolina (1776). During these years, Salvador helped implement the state's revised courts, currency system, and election districts. Further, he participated in drafting South Carolina's first state constitution.
As a volunteer in the War for American Independence, Salvador died along with a few other unknown patriots during the only Revolutionary War battle fought on soil that in time became Pickens County. He was shot from his horse and scalped. One of Salvador's comrades-in-arms, Major Samuel Taylor, named his 400 acre plantation on the Seneca River "San Salvador", which means "Without Salvador". This acreage was near General Andrew Pickens' Hopewell Plantation and included a portion of the former Cherokee town of Esseneca and the site of the Revolutionary War Fort Rutledge.
Born an Englishmen, he cast his lot with America;
true to his ancient faith, he gave his life to
fulfill hopes of liberty and understanding.
War Between the States
1861-1865
Eastern Pickens District
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World War I
1917-1918
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World War II
1941-1945
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Korean War
1950-1953
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Vietnam War
1961-1975
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Global War on Terrorism
September 11th, 2001
Kimberly Nicole Hampton
1976-2004
of
Easley
Killed in Action
January 2nd, 2004,
west of Baghdad, near Fallujah, Iraq
First female combat pilot
shot down and killed
in United States military aviation history
First female combat casualty
from
South Carolina and the County of Pickens
Captain Kimberly Nicole Hampton, while serving as Commander (Dark Horse 6) of D Troop, First Squadron, 17th Cavalry, 82nd Airborne Division, was killed in action during offensive operations near Fallujah, Iraq against armed enemy insurgents when her OH-58D Kiowa helicopter she was piloting was hit by surface-to-air ground fire.
With her brilliant smile, she was the face of liberty.
Marker can be reached from Pendleton Street 0.1 miles south of West Main Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
