IN MEMORIUM

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Success Is Counted Sweetest

Success is counted sweetest 
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated, dying
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

                               Emily Dickinson, 
                       1830 - 1886

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Van Buren County, Tennessee
 

  

ANDREW J. AGENT, PVT.
FELIX BADGER, PVT.
PETER BAKER, PVT.
SAMUEL BAKER, PVT.
SILAS Y. BALLARD, PVT.
CYRUS BILLINGSLEY, PVT.
JOHN BROCK, PVT.
J.T. BYERS, PVT.
NATHAN BYERS, PVT.
WILLIAM D. CARNES, JR., PVT.
GEORGE W. CARTER, CAPT.
MADISON CLARK, PVT.
WILLIAM CREELEY, PVT.
ALLISON CUMMINGS, PVT.
DENNY CUMMINGS, LT.
SMITH A. __________ , PVT.
JOEL DILLON, PVT.
M.D. DILLON, PVT.
GEORGE WASHINGTON "Wash" DRAKE
CSA, Pvt., Co. I, TN, DIED OF ILLNESS, WEST VIRGINIA
 circa 1836 - SEP 1862.
JOHN B. FOSTER, PVT.
W. CROCKETT GADIS, PVT.
JOHN GRISSOM, SGT.
WILLIAM GROVES, PVT.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE  HAMRICK, PVT.
JOHN HANKINS, PVT.
PLEASANT HARRISON, PVT.
JAMES M. HASTON, PVT.
HASTON, WILEY B., PVT.
JAMES HAYES, PVT.
W. ROBERTSON HILLIS, PVT.
ISHAM HOLLINGSWORTH, PVT.
ISAAC HOWARD, PVT.
LEVI JOHNSON, CPL.
WILLIAM B. JONES, PVT.
ANDREW MADEWELL, PVT.
ANTHONY MADEWELL, PVT.
CHARLES MAGASKEY, PVT.
ALFRED MARTIN
CSA, Pvt., Co. I, TN, KILLED IN ACTION, VIRGINIA
11 SEP 1862
He was the first person from Van Buren County to be killed in the Civil War according to Carroll H. Clark's Diary of the Civil War.
ANTHONY MARTIN, PVT.
DAVID MARTIN, PVT.
WILLIAM MCGUIRE, PVT.
WILLIAM C. MCMANUS, PVT.
JAMES MOONEYHAM, PVT. 
D.C. MOORE, PVT.
JAMES CROCKETT MOORE, PVT.
ALEXANDER OAKS, PVT.
HENRY PAINE, PVT.
SAMUEL PARKER, PVT.
WILLIAM BALLARD PARKER, PVT.
TILFORD PASSONS, PVT.
SIMON PHILLIPS, PVT.
FRANCIS MARION PRIEST, PVT.
THOMAS RAWLINGS, PVT.
HENDERSON RHODES, PVT.
JASPER SAUFLEY, PVT.
JEROME SAUFLEY, PVT.
PETER SHOCKLEY, PVT.
PHILLIP SHOCKLEY, PVT.
JOEL SIMPSON, PVT.
A.P. SMART, PVT.
JOHN SMITH, PVT.
WILLIAM J. SMITH, CPL.
ANDREW JACKSON SPARKMAN
CSA, Pvt., Co. I, 8 TN CAV. REGT., DIED OF INJURIES, 
JEFFERSON BARRACKS,  ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
2 Nov 1838 - 29 Jan 1863.
ARTHUR SPARKMAN, PVT.
GEORGE SPARKMAN, PVT.
GEORGE W. SPARKMAN, PVT.
W.B. SPARKMAN, PVT.
JAMES C. STEAKLEY, PVT.
JOHN J. STEAKLEY, PVT.
PINKNEY STEAKLEY, PVT.
FRANK M. STIPE, PVT.
CALLOWAY THOMISON, PVT.
JAMES MARION THOMISON, PVT.
BENJAMIN F. UNDERWOOD, PVT.
MICAJAH D. WALKER, PVT.
WILLIAM WILSON, PVT.
WILLIAM B. WOOD, 2nd LT.
U.L. WOOD, PVT.
JOSHUA WORLEY, PVT.
JOHN E. YORK, CPL.

 


ANGUS CHAMBERS  WW I
ALEX C. GRIFFIN  WW I
JIM BRYAN GRISSOM  WW I
CHARLIE MEDLEY  WW I
ARTHUR G. VAN WINKLE  WW I


MILLARD E. BAKER  WW II
MONROE H. BAYLESS  WW II
JOSEPH A. BINKLEY  WW II
HUBERT E. BUMBALOUGH  WW II
ROBERT GRISSOM  WW II
DAVID RAY GUY  WW II
OTTA L. HORTON  WW II
THANUEL B. MANUS  WW II
ELMER MARTIN  WW II
JAMES P. MEADES  WW II
CLAUDE M. MILLS  WW II
E.L. NORRIS  WW II
WILLIAM PAINE  WW II
ISAAC D. ROBERTS  WW II
CHARLES TEMPLETON  WW II

 


HOWARD E. DELON
PFC, US ARMY, KILLED IN ACTION, KOREA
23 NOV 1951
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CLAYTON VANWINKLE
KOREA

 


ROBERT S. GROVES
S. VIET NAM
TILLMON POWELL HITCHCOCK
PFC, US ARMY, KILLED IN ACTION, S. VIET NAM, 
29 DEC 1942 - 26 APR 1967
His name and more information can be found on the Wall, Panel 18E, Line 94
 
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LARRY LEON HODGES
SP4, US ARMY, KILLED IN ACTION, S. VIET NAM, 
30 JUN 1948 - 11 MAR 1969
His name and more information can be found on the Wall,  Panel 29W, Line 9
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ARNOLD GLEN OAKES
PFC, US ARMY,  KILLED IN ACTION, S. VIET NAM
11 MAY 1948 - 23 JAN 1969
His name and more information can be found on the Wall, Panel 34W, Line 66
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THOMAS FRANKLIN ROGERS, JR.
CPL, US MARINES, KILLED IN ACTION, S. VIET NAM
25 JULY 1945 - 17 NOV 1969
His name and more information can be found on the Wall, Panel 16W, Line 90
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This  space is waiting for your family member 
who died in the service of our country.

 
     This page is dedicated to our HEROES, those men and women who gave their all, their lives, that we might live in freedom in the greatest democracy ever created on Earth.  Each of these men's names can be found on one of two monuments that stand in the Van Buren County court house yard.