Private First Class William A. McWhorter is one of four Congressional Medal of Honor winners to hail from Pickens County. Here is his official citation: He displayed gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in...
Private Furman L. Smith is one of four Congressional Medal of Honor winners to hail from Pickens County. Here is his official citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. In its attack on a strongpoint,...
Lance Corporal James Donnie Howe is one of four Congressional Medal of Honor winners to hail from Pickens County. Here is his official citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a...
LCDR U.S. Navy WWII US Navy Sept 1940-Jan 1946 William J. (Bill) Tolleson. Entered U.S. Navy V7 program Sept 1940. OCS at U.S. Naval Academy Plank Owner Communications Officer Destroyer USS Radford. Native of Spartanburg, SC Graduated Wofford College Masters...
Daddy was born in Evergreen, NC and was hitching back and forth to Columbia, SC for accounting school after high school. He'd come home on the weekends to see his girlfriend and help on his mother's farm. One weekend, he came home to find his mother holding a...
Private First Class Charles H. Barker is one of four Congressional Medal of Honor winners to hail from Pickens County. Here is his official citation: Pfc. Barker, a member of Company K, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and indomitable courage above and...
Barrett was born in Greenville Memorial Hospital on November 10, 1992. Raised in Pickens County, SC in the Dacusville community, he loved sports (particularly baseball), deer hunting and pretty much everyone he ever met. From the first time he was able to walk and...
My friends and family asked me to submit this about my experience in Vietnam. I was a poor farm boy from Mars Hill, NC drafted when I was 19 in August 1968. I took basic training at Ft. Bragg, NC and then was assigned to Ft. Eustis, VA for AIT training as a crew chief...
My hero is my dad, Ross Dover. He served in the military in his youth, but that's not what made him so special in my eyes. He was born in Tennessee but spent almost his entire life in Slater-Marietta and Dacusville. Over the years, he was a volunteer firefighter, one...
Men of value and a call to service is a theme in our family. Growing up the eldest son to a father just returning home from combat in Southeast Asia, I never really knew all of the true struggles and sacrifices he carried daily as he continued to battle onward towards...