Samuel Beckcom (Beckham)

Nov 24, 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), until all danger from Indian forays had ceased.

In 1991, his grave was relocated by the DAR to here from Beckham's Mount on the big gully in Milledgeville.

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