Kings Mountain & Sandy Run Baptist Church visit - June 2002
Kings Mountain Visitor Center
Maggie at Kings Mountain
The first sign along the trail.
"Huzzah for Liberty" - the first trail sign.
"Catch and Destroy Ferguson! - the second trail sign.
Along the trail....
The new Chronicle Marker telling about the 1815 interment of the remains of all those whose remains were left behind after the battle.
Both Chronicle Markers.
"Face the Hill"
"Carolina's Upcountry Men"
"This Poplar.....
Partly burned out tree
Maggie on the trail again.
"A Stroke of Irony"
"Don't Give up the Hill"
Looking towards the spring.
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"Water! Water"
The small spring shown at left is one of the few sources of water at Kings Mountain. After the battle cries for water of the wounded and dying Loyalists went unheeded.
The view standing above the spring
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Looking back at the spring.
More along the trail.
Cob webs in trees along the trail.
"Shelby's Damned Yelling Boys"
"In God and our Rifles We Trust"
President Hoover at Kings Mountain.
Hoover Monument.
"Shout Like Hell and Fight Like Deamons!"
The Centennial Monument
Colonel Coward
Split tree along the trail.
"Retreat and Surrender"
One of four plaques on the new monument.
"Quarter! Quarter!
Burial site of Major Ferguson.
Sandy Run Baptist Church Mooresboro, North Carolina
Priscilla Blount Rawlins and her daughter Nancy are listed on the membership rolls here. In 1794 they requested a letter of membership to take with them. At this time I do not know where they moved to, but it is quite likely the went to Kentucky with other family members. There are many very old grave stones that can not be read as well as quite a few with no markers at all. Perhaps on a future visit someone will be at the church and I can learn what records they might have.
The Broad River Genealogica Archive in Shelby, North Carolina has quite a lot of information regarding Sandy Run.
Different views of the cemetery at Sandy Run Baptist Church