"War produces the greatest extremes in human life. It brings men to sanity; yet drives them mad. It reveals them magnificent in sacrifice and revolting in brutality." Mitchell Hall
World War I Veterans Memorial
photo by Jean Peppers
"Solemnly with love, honor and respect, we do herby dedicate this memorial to the memory of the soldiers , sailors Marines and nurses, who gave their lives in the cause of this great nation."
These words are inscribed on the Memorial in memory of those 25 brave men from Johnson County who lost their lives in encounters at Argonne Forest, St. Mihiel, Soissons, Montfaucon, Bouresches, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry and Cantigny.
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
Kirk Fairchild ~ Malcolm Rice ~ Hebert Ward
Johnson County Deaths of World War I
| James W. Akers Lt. | John Arms | Charles Blair (Challie) | Turner Branham |
| Charley Conley | Curtis M. Conley | Budd Elswick | Elzie Estep |
| Elwood Hampton | John W. Lackey | John W. Lemaster | Estel Messer |
| Fred C. Pinson | Chester Reed | Warren G. Rice Lt. | Benjamin R. Ross |
| James L. Rowland | Emery Skaggs | James H. Slone | Flem Stapleton |
| Bill Walters | Ora Ward | Lindsey Wireman | John Pelphrey |
| Leonard Perry |
Johnson County Wounded World War I
| Ben Adams Sgt. | Ora K. Blanton | William M. Blevins Cpl | Jesse Boggs |
| Frank Burton | Wiley Burton | Henry Byrd | Herbert Castle |
| James Caudill | James M. Chandler | John Henry Chandler | Roy Clark |
| Grover C. Collins | Edward Daniels | Jesse Davis | Arthur Dixon |
| Clellie Dye | Kirk Fairchild | Lloyd Fairchild Cpl | Wiley V. Hall |
| Luther Harmon | Irwin Hitchcock | Wiley Hitchcock | John Jervis |
| John L. Jones | Ben Keaton | William McKenzie | Vancy Melvin |
| Elbert Murray | Wasselle Pellex | Walter Pelphrey | George Perkins |
| Jeffery Perry | Cyrus Preston | Russell Preston Cpl. | James A. Rice Cpl. |
| Malcolm Rice Lt. | John Richardson | Dewey Robinson Lt. | |
| Benjamin F. Ross | Mason Ross | Elzie Salyer | Herbert Salyer |
| Hoadley Salyers | Charlie Sebastian | James H. Slone Cpl. | Willie Smith Sgt. |
| Monroe Stambaugh | Elliott Stanley | John Stricklin Cpl | Thomas H. Terry |
| Bert Thomas | McCoy Trimble Cpl | Claude Van Hoose | Herbert Ward Sgt. |
| Lorenzo Ward | Roscoe Watson | Heskell Webb | Ernest A Archer |
| Earl Blair |
Men who served 1917-1918 World War I
| Ben Adams | John D. Adams | Kelly Adams | Sidney Adams |
| James W. Akers | Frank Arms | John Arms | Morris Arms |
| Milton Atkinson | Alger Bailey | Elbert C. Bailey | |
| Emmet Bailey | Emit Bailey | Harrison W. Bailey | Melvin Bailey |
| Wm. H. Bailey | Arnett Baldridge | Freddie Baldwin | |
| Beecher Bayes | Henry W.B. Bayes | Ray Bayes | Elbert Beers |
| Carl Beggs | Challie Blair | Posey G. Blair | Robert Blair |
| Walter L. Bland | Alfred Blanton | Andrew J Blanton | |
| Anderson Blanton | General S. Blanton | George W. Blanton | |
| John M. Blanton | Kendrick Blanton | Miller F. Blanton | Ora K. Blanton |
| William Blanton | Everett Blevins | Frank Blevins | Jesse Boggs |
| Henry Bohanon | William H. Booth | Glenn Borders | Lewis Borders |
| Virgil Borders | Herschel Boyd |
Milliard Boyd |
Chester Bradley |
| Roscoe Branham | Turner Branham | Charlie Brown | |
| Elbert Brown | Isaac Brown Col. | William Robert Brown | Jesse Burchett |
| Julius Burchett | Lonnie Burchett | John P Burke | Lucian Burke |
| Walker Burke | Walter Burke | Frank Burton | |
| Wiley Burton | Henry Byrd | Alex Cameron | |
| Bosier Castle | Golbert Candell | Earl Cantrell | |
| Elbert Castle | Harrison Castle | Herbert Castle | Link Castle |
| Oakley Castle | Walter Castle | Archie M. Caudill | Mathew Caudil |
| Albert Centers | James M. Chandler | John Henry Chandler | George Charlie |
| J. R. Childers | Roy Clark | John Allen Coldiron | Dennis Collins |
| Grover Collins | James Collins | Norman Collins | Perry Collins |
| Frank Collinsworth | Bruce Colvin | Charlie Colvin | Harve Colvin |
| Ben F. Conley | Burll Conley | Charles B. Conley | Charles R. Conley |
| Charlie Conley | Curtis Conley | Dona Conley | Everett Conley |
| Forrest Conley | George W. Conley | Heber Conley | Lindsey Conley |
| Morris Conley | Othie Conley | Paris Conley | Sherman Conley |
| Edward B. Connelley | John Hays Cordial | Crassford Crace | |
| Guy Crace | Lonzie Crace | ||
| Thomas Crum | Frank J. Daniel | Edward Daniels | Jesse Davis |
| John C. Davis | Anthony F. Dills | Jesse B. Dills | Arthur Dixon |
| James Franklin Dixon | Hubert Dixon | Harrison Duty | Clellie Dye |
| Bud Elswick | Alonzo Estep | Elzie Estep | |
| Jimmie Estep | Oscar Evans | Proctor J. Evans | |
| Dennie Fairchilds | Kirk Fairchilds | Lloyd Fairchilds | Sun Fairchild |
| Troy Fairchilds | Walter Fairchilds | Clyde Fannin | Braddus Faulkner |
| Proctor James Fife | Roy Fitch | Sherman Fitch | Carl Fitchpatrick |
| James M. Flannery | Ulyssis G. Fletcher | William Franklin | Harry Fraizer |
| James L. Fraizer | Marvin Gillman | Raleigh Goble | Joseph Gonnicks |
| Andrew Greathouse | Mathew Gullett | Curtis L. Gullet | Thomas H. Hackworth |
| Deed Hall | James W. Hall | Mitchel Hall | Mort Hall |
| Paul Bryan Hall | Wiley B. Hall | Wiley V. Hall | Wm Bradley Hamilton |
| Elwood Hampton | William Hampton | Proctor Hannah | Wayne Hannah |
| Luther Harmon | Will Haskell | George Paul Helton | Challie Hitchcock |
| Irwin Hitchcock | Wiley Hitchcock | Arthur C. Holbrook | Arthur Grant Holbrook |
| Charles Holbrook | Charles W. Holbrook | Lonza Horn | |
| Edgar Howes | R.G. Howes | Donovan Huff | Andrew J. Hughes |
| James B. Hughes | Winifred Hurt | James F. Jackson | Logan Jackson |
| Ora C. Jayne | John Jervis | Garfield Jackson | John Hohnson |
| John L. Jones | Walter Kastro | Ben Keaton | Floyd King |
| Paul Krockinphicki | John W. Lackey | Edward P. Lavender | Harry LaViers |
| Russell Lee | Ben F. Lemaster | Earn Lemaster | Flem Lemaster |
| Floyd Lemaster | J. Walter Lemaster | John W. Lemaster | Luther Lemaster |
| Rosco Lemaster | Roy H. Lemaster | Stephen L. Lemaster | Oscar Lemley |
| John L. Lester | Gordon Litteral | Harvey Litteral | Harvey G. Litteral |
| J. Benson Litteral | Lonnie Litteral | Oscar Lovely | Fred Lowe |
| Mason Lyons | Arthur (Son) Mahan | Scott May | Grats McCarthy |
| John McCourt Jr. | German McKenzie | Harvey L. McKenzie | Haskell McKenzie |
| Jay McKenzie | William Mckenzie | Bob Meade | Guy Meade |
| Robert Meade | Thomas Meade | Clyde Melvin | Yancy Melvin |
| Estill Messer | Bernard H. Mieman | Mance Montgomery | Robert Moore |
| Elbert Murray | Walter Murray | Jeff Need | Alfred Osborne |
| James H. Osborne | Proctor Osborne | Frank Pack | Tracy Pack |
| Samuel H. Patrick | Wassell Pellix | John Pelphrey | Walter Pelphrey |
| Willie Pelphrey | James Brown Penix | Shade Penix | Rancie Pennington |
| Sherman Pennington | George Perkins | Jeffrey Perry | Leonard Perry |
| William J. Perry | Emerson Picklesimer | Henry Picklesimer | Newton Picklesimer |
| Oakley Picklesimer | Sanford Picklesimer | James Tildon Pigg | Fred C. Pinson |
| Clyde Preston | Cyrus Preston | Earnest R. Preston | Martin Preston |
| Roger Lee Preston | Russell Preston | Clarence Price | Green Price |
| Wiley W. Price | Cleve Puckett | Butler Ramey | Joe Ramey |
| Rova F. Ramey | Paris Ratliff | Chester Reed | Dave Reed |
| Frank Reed | Jeff Reed | Milton Reed | Alex Rice |
| Francis M. Rice | George Dewey Rice | German W. Rice | Heber Rice |
| Hobart Rice | James A. Rice | Malcolm Rice | Oscar Rice |
| Robert Rice | Samuel P. Rice | Warren G. Rice | Gus Riffit |
| Oscar Ritchie | Bert (Pat) Roberts | Carmen Roberts | John Logan Roberts |
| Norman Roberts | Wallie Robinson | ||
| Dewey Robinson | Charles G. Rose | Benjamin Ross | John Franklin Ross |
| Mason Ross | James L. Rowland | Estill Rule | Crayton G. Sagraves |
| Elzie Salyer | Freeman Salyer | Hedley Salyer | Herbert Salyer |
| Minyard Salyer | Noah C. Salyer | Ramson Salyer | Tony Salyers |
| Arthur Salyers | Clinton J.M. Saylers | Dock Salyers | George Savco |
| Sherman Scarberry | John C. Schroeder | Chalie Sebastian | Emery Skaggs |
| Peter Skaggs | James Henry Slone | William P. Slone | Binnie Smith |
| Willie Smith | Earnest C. Sneed | Wm Harrison Sparks | Bernard Spears |
| Marion Spears | Bernie Spencer | Walter Spencer | Noah Spradlin |
| Charley Stafford | Albert Stambaugh | Fred Stambaugh | Hubert Stambaugh |
| Hubert C. Stanbaugh | Monroe Stambaugh | Elliott Stanley | Dock Stapleton |
| Flem Stapleton | Millard Stapleton | Sammie Stapleton Jr. | Willie Stapleton |
| Earl Stone | John W, Stricklin | Benjamin E. Strother | Francis M. Tackett |
| Paris Tackett | Thomas Tackett | Bert Taylor | Demra Taylor |
| Mrs. Norma Terry | Thomas Henry Terry | Bert Thomas | James V. Trible |
| Patrick Trible | Bruce Trimble | Harry V. Trimble | James H. Trimble |
| James V. Trimble | McCoy Trimble | Paris L. Trimble | Thomas E. Trimble |
| Claude Van Hoose | Dan Van Hoose | Hancel Van Hoose | Hobart Van Hoose |
| Kirk Van Hoose | Woodward Wallen | George N. Walters | Ingram Walters |
| William Walters | Edgar W. Ward | Heber Ward | Jeff M. Ward |
| Lorenz Ward | Ora ward | Roma Grey Ward | William J. Ward |
| Roscoe Watson | Hescel Webb | Charles M. Wells | Hubert Wells |
| Zephaniah Wells | Charles Orion Wheeler | John Wheeler | Orrell Wheeler |
| Willie James Wheeler | Wm Cash Whittaker | Henry Wilbur | Jess Wilcox |
| Charles N. Williams | Estill M. Williams | Milligan Williams | Oka Lee Williams |
| Ralph B. Williams | Lindsey Wireman | Albert Wolf | Earnest woods |
| John W. Woyno | Benjamin H. Young | Noah Conley | Oscar Osborn |
| Hendrix Kelly | |||
WW I Draft registrations A Please check what we have been able to get. If you can add to these records we would be very thankful as would many researchers.