Lieut Joseph Reid Sr.
BIRTH 5 Jun 1756
Augusta County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 10 Oct 1828 (aged 72)
Pickens County, South Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Old Pickens Cemetery
Old Pickens, Oconee County, South Carolina, USA
His and his wifes original graves were removed from Keowee Plantation Cemetery in 1965 to Old Pickens to make way for the dam being built.
Joseph Reid served in the Revolutionary War as a Private and then Lieutenant under his brother-in-law, Capt. (later Major) John Bowie. They were in the regiment which was organized by Colonel Robert Anderson. Joseph fought throughout the war and was engaged in numerous battles in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. He took part in the Battle of Ninety-Six and the battle at Guilford Court House in North Carolina, Mar. 15, 1781, under General Nathaniel Greene, who led the attack on the British forces under Cornwallis. At the Battle of King's Mountain he served under Colonel Ben Cleveland. A certificate dated Mar. 14, 1784 issued by Col. Cleveland states, "I do hereby certify that Joseph Reid, refugee from South Carolina, joined my
Regiment and was wounded on King's Mountain at the defeating of Major Furgeson, the 7th day of October, 1780." The original of this certificate is on file in the Office of the South Carolina Historical Commission. In the summer of 1780 the British forces occupied nearly all of South Carolina and Georgia. The Patriot forces took refuge among the
dwellers in the mountain regions. Thus Joseph Reid was called "a refugee from South Carolina" by Col. Cleveland.
Joseph Reid married his brother-in-law's (Capt. William Baskin's) niece, Isabella Baskin, and moved to Pendleton District, South Carolina. He died 10 October, 1828, and is buried in Old Pickens Cemetery near Keowee. A monument honoring him and two other Revolutionary War veterans was erected and dedicated on August 3, 1935.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10007810/joseph-reid
