After War
After the war, Gist relocated to plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. He was admitted as an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati in both Maryland and South Carolina.
He had two children, both sons, one of whom he named "Independent" and the other "States." He died on September 12, 1792, at the age of 50, in Charleston and is buried in St. Michael's Churchyard, next to his son, States Gist, and daughter Susannah Gist.
Mordecai Gist was distantly related to States Rights Gist, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War who died of wounds received while leading his brigade in a charge against Federal fortifications at the Battle of Franklin in November 1864. States Rights Gist was the great-grandson of William Gist (b. 1710), the third child of Richard and Susan Cockey Gist.
His papers are held at the Maryland Historical Society.
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