Lee County · Marker 31-03
Rev. John Leighton Wilson, D.D. March 25, 1809-July 13, 1886
S.C. Sec. Rd. 31-154 (Nancy Branch Rd.), about 1.8 mi. S of its intersection with U.S. Hwy. 401, S of St. Charles
Front inscription
His home stood on this site. With his wife, Jane Bayard Wilson, he served as a Presbyterian missionary on the western coast of Africa 1833-1852. He advocated ending the slave trade and by 1844 had freed all his own slaves. Foreign Mission Secretary in the Presbyterian Church for 33 years, he served as a chaplain, C.S.A.