Existing comment:
This marker says:
Sacred to the memory of Major William Chronicle, Captain John Mattocks, William Rabb and John Boyd, who were killed at this place on the 7th of October 1780 fighting in defense of America.
Colonel Ferguson, an officer of his Britannic majesty, was defeated and killed at this place on the 7th of October 1780.
Note: This inscription is a copy of that on the old monument erected by Dr William MacLean in 1815.
This stone has been placed here by the Kings Mountain Association of Yorkville, South Carolina. |