Thomas Horry

The inscription on his gravestone reads:

Thomas Horry was the 3rd son of Colonel Elias Horry and Margaret Lynch Horry. He was born at Wadbecan in the Parish Of Prince George Winyah, on the 13th of June 1748 and departed this life on the 5th of January 1820 in the 72nd year of his age. In the early part of his life the inhabitants of St. James Santee claimed his services in all of their parochial and public concerns, and he was one of their Representatives in the Legislature prior to the American Revolution and a member of the first and second Provincial Congress, chosen by the people in 1775. He was elected to the Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States and was one of those who voted for its adoption. He was also a Member of the Convention which formed the present State Constitution under which he afterwards served for several years as a Representative and a Senator, All which public trusts he conscientiously and independently discharged in his private character he was a man of great humanity and of great integrity just, upright, liberal and sincere in all of his dealing.