Monroe County, Tennessee

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

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

World War I Memorial

IN 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

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

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

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