On July 4, 1815, Dr. William McLean visited the battlefield and
dedicated the gray soft stone on your left. It stands at the grave of
his friend, Maj. William Chronicle, who is buried here with Capt. John
Mattocks, William Rabb, and John Boyd. It is one of the oldest
battlefield markers in the country. One hundred years later, in 1914,
the Kings Mountain Association of Yorkville (now York), S. C., erected
the newer marker to preserve the time-and-weather-worn inscription on
the original.