Willis Zonk Foster

In the early 1900s, Willis T. 'Zonk' Foster, a 36-year-old male, served as a Night Policeman with the Greer Police Department in South Carolina. He was known to be the only Greer police officer to die in the line of duty. On the evening of July 2, 1904, a date that would be etched in the town's memory, Foster was on patrol. At a time when illegal liquor operations, known as 'false tigers,' were prevalent, he observed a man acting suspiciously and ducking into a wooded area near the old Wayside I ...