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Samuel Beckcom
Born:      November 24, 1760
Died:      November 2, 1825
Buried:   Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia

Mother:  Susannah McMillian
Father:   Simon Beckcom

Married: Elizabeth Houghton.

Children: William Haywood

Samuel Beckcom served as a Lieutenant and later a Captain in Colonel William Thompson's Regiment of South Carolina Rangers.[1] He was also described as Maj. Samuel Beckham, a revolutionary soldier, who was in charge of the militia, which garrisoned Ft. Wilkinson, after the removal of Ft. Wilkinsons garrison to Ft. Hawkins near Macon, until all danger from Indian forays had ceased (p. 24). Beckcom was appointed as Inferior Court justice of the county of Wilkinson in 1807 (p.19).[2]

Beckcom received a bounty of 287-1/2 acres based on the certificate of Col. G. Lee.[3] He appears to be the Captain Samuel Beckaem who wrote a deposition describing what went on in Georgia in the Revolutionary War. His statement begins with the capture of Savannah by British troops on Dec. 29, 1778, and continues until 1781. This deposition was written in approximately 1812 and can be found in the records of the Bevan Papers in the Georgia Historical Society Library in Savannah. The deposition was "correct to my own experemental knowledge and the best information that I can collect from old Revolutionarous characters" (sic) and a second part was "delivered to the subscriber by Coln Johnsons own mouth"(sic).

Saml. Beckaem

Samuel Beckcom married, second, Elizabeth Haughton.[4] He died November 2, 1825. From The Georgia Journal (Milledgeville), November 8, 1825, p. 3, 5th column:

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 the siege 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 the 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 his company, who generously turned out and accompanied his remains to the tomb and interred him with the usual honors of War.

Samuel Beckcom was originally interred at "Beckam's Mount" in Baldwin County. His remains were later transferred to Milledgeville's Memory Hill Cemetery. Anna Maria Green Cook's History of Baldwin County, includes the inscription from his tomb, on Beckam's Mount, which reads:

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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