The family cemetery of Joshua Ammons (1756-1833), a veteran of the American Revolution, is all that remains of his 500-acre plantation near the Three Creeks. A native of Virginia, Ammons moved to South Carolina by 1775, when he enlisted in the 3rd South Carolina Militia. He reenlisted in 1777 and fought in the battles of Savannah and Stono Ferry and the Siege of Savannah in 1777-1779. Captured by the British at the fall of Charleston in 1780, he was exchanged in time for the siege of Yorktown and the British surrender there in 1781. An early history of Marlboro County praised his great firmness of character and solid worth. A longtime member of Beauty Spot Baptist Church, he received a veteran’s pension shortly before his death in 1833.