These memorials are located on the
Monroe County Courthouse lawn in Madisonville, Tennessee.

Civil War

World War I

World War II

Korean & Vietnam War

Iraq & Afghanistan War


Abbreviations:
KIA = Killed In Action
DOW = Died of Wounds
DOI = Died of Injuries
DNB = Died Non-Battle
FOD = Finding of Death
M = Missing

By the end of 1918, the Spanish flu had killed 57,000 American soldiers -- 4000 more than those killed in combat.
These Monroe County men died of flu: Albert B. Simpson, Frank A. Ray and Thurber McConkey and there could have been more.




Civil War Memorial

Monroe County, Tennessee Civil War Memorial

Monroe County, Tennessee Civil War Memorial

Monroe County, Tennessee Civil War Memorial



World War I Memorial

Monroe County, Tennessee World War I Memorial

IMG_2906IN MEMORIAM
HONORING THE MEN FROM MONROE
COUNTY WHO MADE THE SUPREME
SACRIFICE IN THE WORLD WAR
1917 ---- 1918

Bedford B. Lunsford, DSC

Fred R. Allen

Horace Burger

Harden E. Clark

Lem E. Emert

Wm. Edgar Giles

Willie Greer

David C. Hickey

Meredith G. Jenkins

John McClendon

Thurber McConkey

Joe McGhee

Robert L. Miller

William H. Milligan

Levi Sherman Morehouse, Lt.

Anan Lester Moser

Benjamin Nichols

Frank A. Ray

William S. Scruggs

Albert B. Simpson

Dan W. Snider

James H. Taylor

Charlie Clark

Charlie Fitch

Willie M. Goad

William Z. Lankford

Arthur L. McCampbell

Earnest Milsaps

John E. Standridge




World War II Memorial

Monroe County, Tennessee World War II MemorialIMG_2908

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF THOSE
FROM MONROE COUNTY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
WORLD WAR II IN DEFENSE OF OUR COUNTRY THAT
WE MIGHT HAVE FREEDON IN OUR PURSUIT OF
HAPPINESS. THEY GAVE US PEACE, WE MUST KEEP IT.

Shirley J. Allen

Maxwell O. Green

Mack R. Rowan, Jr.

Warren H. Bailey

William F. Hanley

Richard H. Selvidge

Matt C. Berry

Gordon Murray Harris

Wallace S. Sayne

John W. Bliscerd

James R. Hawkins

Ancil U. Shepherd

William R. Bowers

Francis V. Henry

Marion A. Shewmaker

James H. Breeden

William B. Hicks

Luther R. Shope

Buster K. Brown

Denver Hollingshead

William C. Sitzlar

Joseph A. Brunner

Jay M. Horowitz

Warren J. Sloan

Robert H. Bryson

Joe C. Howard

Wray R. Sloan

John B. Burleson

Oscar J. Huey

Louis D. Smith

Michael C. Callahan

Melvin L. Ivens

William Frank Starritt, Jr.

Lee H. Cardin

Kenneth H. Jaynes

Vernon F. Stewart

Virgil Carringer

M. L. Jenkins, Jr.

Luther Sutton

Gilford Carson

Elmer O. Jones

Arthur Boyd Tallent

Ernest F. Clark

James N. Jones

Guy Tallent

Jack I. Clevenger

Marvin Jones

Herbert W. Tennyson

Donnie Cline

Samuel T. Jones

Clinton Wallace Thomas

William E. Collis

Willie J. King

John E. Thomas

Melvin Lee Crain

Homer E. Kirkland

Reed Thompson

Hubert Wade Crowder

William Lenoir Kiser

Luther L. True

Fred O. Curtis

Woodrow Leonard

Robert V. Turpin

Archie Dalton

Milburn L. Long

Harold W. Upton

Robert L. Davis

Raymond C. Mason

Theodore L. Watson

Robert Oscar Dotson

Richard H.McCaslin

Winston H. Watson

Frances E. Dupes

Ralph A. McNabb

Clyde Webb

Clyde J. Ellis

Robert C. Melton

Lester M. Whaley

Hugh D. Eller

Charles W. Morgan

Charles R. White

Glenn B. Frank

Allen A. Murr

Arnold L. Wilkerson

Alaska Freeman-see John W. Freeman

William Gordon Noblitt

Horace L. Wilkins

Carl B. Freeman

Theodore D. Norwood

Labern Williams

Earl J. Freeman

Thomas E. Pearson

Robert Paul Wilson

John Wm. Freeman

Kermit Pettit

James A. Winton

Virgil D.H. Freeman

Joe S. Phillips

James C. Wiseman

Enos B. Gardner

Frederick K. Plyley

Arrants R. Wood

Wesley R. Garren

Claude Powell

Charles E. Woods

Gola G. Gibby

Joseph H. Randolph

 

James C. Gray

Jake Rose

 



Korean & Vietnam War Memorial

Monroe County, Tennessee Korean & Vietnam War Memorial

DEDICATED
BY THE CITIZENS
OF
MONROE COUNTY

IN HONOR AND RECOGNITION
OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE
KOREAN AND VIETNAM WARS

AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR
FREEDON OF OUR COUNTRY

THE PRICE OF FREEDON IS HIGH
EVEN IN UNPOPULAR WARS
OUR COUNTRY CALLED
WE PROUDLY ANSWERED

LEST YOU FORGET - WE SHALL HAVE DIED IN VAIN

Korean War
1950-1955

Vietnam War
1959-1975

Robert A. Green - 7/20/1950

SGT Tommy Robert Wilson - 12/2/1965

Avery E. Burnett - 11/21/1950

SGT Carey Edwin Best - 1/27/1966

Chester S. Hicks - 12/23/1950

SGT Harold Eugene Lee - 2/3/1967

James H. Raby - 1/21/1951

PFC Freddy Lynn Gray - 6/9/1967

Parrion R. Harris - 3/7/1951

SGT Larry Randall Arwood - 11/9/1967

Walter B. Smith - 9/24/1951

SP4 James Calvin Thomason - 2/23/1968

Johnny S. Teague - 11/21/1951

SGT Clarence Edward Watson - 7/19/1968

Ross M. Walker - 1/9/1952

CPL James Edward Self - 8/22/1968

Wesley E. Tallent - 4/12/1952

PFC Steve Julies Dockery - 9/19/1968

William R. Sloan - 8/15/1952

SGT James Arthur Borden - 5/7/1969

Tubby B. Watson - 7/1/1953

SGT Thomas Eugene Latham - 5/12/1969

Allen L. Wright - 7/17/1953

PFC Winston Osborne Smith - 5/14/1969

PFC Ron Jackson Haynes - 9/5/1969

SP4 Danny Ray Roberts - 2/4/1970

SGT J. C. Davis - 11/5/1970



Iraq & Afghanistan War Memorial

Monroe County, Tennessee Iraq & Afghanistan War Memorial

DEDICATED
TO THE U.S. MILITARY MEMBERS
FROM
MONROE COUNTY

THAT SERVED IN
THE WARS THAT RESULTED
FROM THE TERRORIST ATTACKS
ON SEP 11, 2001

Iraq War

Afghanistan War

Ssg Paul J. Johnson - 10/20/2003

Pfc Robert Kelsey Repkie - 6/24/2010

Sgt Joseph D. Hunt - 8/22/2005

LCpl Franklin "Frankie" Namon Watson - 9/24/2011

Ssg Ryan E. Haupt - 10/17/2006



This page and images created by Cory Mills and MEMORIALS by Joy Locke and Joe Irons