Deputy Sheriff Ernest Christian Potter, III

It has been forty-three years since we lost Chris and a week does go by without thinking about him. I knew Chris for six years with four of them spent in college. We were part of a group of about six-seven guys that shrank to three by our last year in school. We were roommates the last two years.

I still remember the shock when my mother called me at work to tell me about his murder. It took twenty-five years before I stopped thinking about him every day.

Chris was four days older than me and I often think about the impact he would have had on our county because he was a man on a mission when he was twenty-years old. I believe he would ended up in politics or perhaps the sheriff of Kershaw County. It is a shame and our loss that his life was cut short for no reason.

Chris, it has been forty-three years and your memory still makes me cry.

Ardell Young
Friend

May 12, 2017