Grave of General Tristram Thomas/Saw Mill Baptist Church SCHM 35-18
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N 34° 37.732 W 079° 46.301
17S E 612592 N 3832572
The plaque is located at West side of Road 209 at its intersection with SC 912.
Waymark Code: WMTG50
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 11/19/2016
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Grave of General Tristram Thomas (obverse)
Text:
In Saw Mill Church cemetery is the grave of Tristram Thomas, major of militia during the Revolution. At Hunt´s Bluff, ten miles south, a band of Patriots under his command seized a British flotilla in 1780. He served as legislator, as first brigadier general of the Cheraw Militia, and as commissioner for locating the county seat.
Erected by Marlboro County Historic Preservation Commission - 1974
Saw Mill Baptist Church (reverse)
Text:
In 1785 Philip Pledger donated to the Cheraw Hill Baptist Church a tract of land here adjoining his saw mill. Pledger´s Saw Mill Church was eventually constituted in 1820 as a separate church. The original congregation relocated in 1832 as Bennettsville Church. Sawmill Church today is a member of the S. C. Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention.
Erected by Marlboro County Historic Preservation Commission - 1974
Marker Name: Grave of General Tristram Thomas/Saw Mill Baptist Church
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Person
Marker number: SCHM 35-18
County: Marlboro
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