In the 1750s one intrepid soul, a certain Benjamin Kilgore, moved from Pennsylvania and settled near what is now Woodruff, SC. It’s hard to imagine how difficult and primitive these times were, but one measure of the challenges might be that Kilgore’s wife was scalped by local Indians and died of her wounds. Nonetheless, Kilgore persevered and began to farm. Land-rich but cash-poor, the Kilgore family prospered. Today, the Kilgore family name survives on streets, tombstones and place at a long grass strip called Triple Tree.
