Colonel Abel Kolb, a prominent Revolutionary War Patriot of this area, was attacked by a band of Tory raiders on the night of April 27-28, 1781, when they surrounded the home of Kolb and his family. He was shot while surrendering himself as a prisoner of war, and his home was burned. His grave is in old Welsh Neck cemetery, one mile north, a short distance from his home site. One mile north on the east bank of Pee Dee River stood Old Welsh Neck Baptist Church and its cemetery, where early Welsh settlers and their descendants were buried. Two stone monuments and several river rocks mark the few remaining graves of members of the Marshall, Kolb, and Wilds families. When the church moved to Society Hill, the cemetery was abandoned.