Officers /Inspector Generals
GRAND COMMANDERY OFFICERS
Right Eminent Grand Commander
Very Eminent Deputy Grand Commander
Eminent Grand Generalissimo
Eminent Grand Prelate
Grand Illustrious Recorder
Eminent Grand Senior Warden
Eminent Grand Junior Warden
Eminent Grand Treasurer
Eminent Grand Recorder
Eminent Grand Assistant Recorder
Eminent Grand Warder
Eminent Grand Standard Bearer
Eminent Grand Sword Bearer
Eminent Grand Sentinel
Eminent Grand Lecturer
Eminent Grand Asst. Lecturer
Eminent Grand Historian
Eminent Grand C.C.F.C.
Eminent Grand Photographer
President of PEC Degree
INSPECTOR GENERALS
Low Country
Midlands
Piedmont
Pee Dee
Horry County
Jurisdictional
Deputy for the Grand Encampment
of Knight Templars
Palmetto Grand Commandery, PHA
In 1978, Very Eminent Grand Commander Henry L. Marshall wrote ‘ It has been more than four decades that North Carolina and South Carolina met in their final Convocation in the City of Chester.” Calculated year is around 1937. J. C. White and his brother R. E. White both served as the Very Eminent Grand Commander. Henry L. Marshall was elected.to replace J. C. White and served until Clemon H. Richardson election in 1978.
Very Eminent Commander Marshall report that he had held the reins and sat in the driver’s seat too long. He reported that with the help of Sir James M. Davis at Cash, Sir L. E. Hyman at Pamplico, Sir C. H. Richardson of Charleston and Sir Lloyd Buckner they came up with the name Palmetto Grand Commandery, P.H.A. He also reported that Palmetto Grand Commandery had been a part of the Grand Encampment since 1976 and that he had attended the Grand Encampment, Knights Templar, PHA and the International Grand Court‐Cyrene , USA 52nd Grand Conclave in Kansas City, Kansas in 1978.
Palmetto Grand Commandery has hosted the Grand Encampment twice. Once at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Greenville in 1994 and at Marriot Columbia Hotel in 2014. Samuel Davis was elected as the Grand Encampment’s of Knights Templar, United States of America and its Jurisdiction, P.H.A., Inc. Most Eminent Grand Master in 2017 and served until 2019.
The following Sir Knights have served Palmetto Grand Commandery as Very Eminent Grand Commander:
| R. E. White | ? |
| J. C. White | ? |
| Henry L. Marshall | ? ‐1978 |
| Clemon H. Richardson | 1978‐1984 |
| Billy J. Powell | 1984‐1987 |
| Robert L. Nix | 1988‐1990 |
| Robert W. Pindar | 1990‐1993 |
| Harold Thompson | 1993‐1996 |
| James A. L. Myers | 1996‐1999 |
| Silas J. Williams | 1999‐2003 |
| Samuel Davis | 2003‐2007 |
| O. D. Berry | 2007‐2011 |
| Wilbert Gathers | 2011‐2014 |
| John H. Blume | 2014‐2018 |
| Alden Holmes | 2018‐2021 |
| Johnny Holmes | 2021-2022 |
| Hadji Harper | 2022- |