James L. Sires was a 59-year-old male service station operator in Beaufort County, South Carolina, when his life was cut short in a brutal robbery on August 10, 1970. Genealogical records place his birth on November 24, 1910, and show that he would later be buried at Beaufort Memorial Gardens, a short distance from the community he served.
On that August day, Sires was working at a service station in Beaufort when a drifter named William Joseph “Junior” Pierce pulled in, looking for
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