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BECKAM

"The Journal"

Milledgeville, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 1825 A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION

    On the second of November, at the residence of Albert G. Beckam, Samuel
Beckam died, at the age of sixty-five years, wanting twenty-two days. He was a
Revolutionary soldier who was in actual service during our struggle for liberty,
until the close .of the war, with the exception of a few months, when he was
confined with a wound he received at he seige of Augusta.

    He commanded a rifle company during the greater part of the war, under Gen.
Elijah Clarke, where he was ready to serve his country in any shape that
presented itself. His goodness of heart will long be remembered by hundreds of
his countrymen; but, alas! his goodness reduced him to poverty, and would have
sent him to his grave unnoticed and unregretted, save by his relatives and
neighbors, had it not been for the patriotic heart of Captain Lamar and company,
who generously turned out and accompanied his remains to the tomb and interred
him with the usual honors of war.

    Inscription on Tomb, on Beckam's Mount, Baldwin County.

ERECTED BY THE STATE OF GEORGIA
TO THE MEMORY OF SAMUEL BECKAM
ONE OF THE SONS AND SOLDIER OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
BORN 21st NOVEMBER 1760
DIED 2nd NOVEMBER 1825



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA
BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED
ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—

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