{"id":953,"date":"2026-01-06T23:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/?p=953"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:26:52","slug":"world-war-i-veterans-of-haywood-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/world-war-i-veterans-of-haywood-county\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I Veterans of Haywood County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives (TSLA) created a county-level listing of veterans served in World War I.&nbsp; TSLA has a detailed explanation of its resources for World War I veterans.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/sos.tn.gov\/tsla\/guides\/tennessee-world-war-i-veterans-an-introduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view the research guide.<\/p>\n<p>TSLA&#8217;s staff compiled a list of veterans from each county.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com\/tsla\/history\/military\/ww1haywood.htm\">Click here<\/a> to view the Haywood County list (updated as of March 31, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Another important searchable database at TSLA is <em>Records of Ex-Soldiers in World War 1<\/em>.&nbsp; It is an extension of the county-by-county listing described above.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/database-military-records\/records-ex-soldiers-world-war-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Two Haywood Countians completed the state&#8217;s voluntary&nbsp;<em>World War I Veterans&#8217; Questionnaire<\/em>:&nbsp; <strong>James Rawlins<\/strong> and <strong>Willey B. Sammons<\/strong>.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/database-military-records\/tennessee-world-war-i-veterans-questionnaires?f%5B0%5D=field_county_of_residence%3A56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view their responses.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Haywood Countians lost their lives during World War I and are considered &#8220;Gold Star&#8221; veterans.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/database-military-records\/tennessee-world-war-i-gold-star-records?f%5B0%5D=field_county_of_residence%3A56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view details of their service in TSLA records.&nbsp; Their names are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charles Lorimer Anderson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Charlie Bennett<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Henry Morrison Dixon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Humphrey Augusta Jones<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>John Wesley Wallace<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lawrence A. Dixon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Maynard Wesley Escue<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard L Covington<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Trimble Lay<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>William Montelle Hardy<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TSLA&#8217;s Tennessee Virtual Archive has images of 1,211 artifacts scanned from Tennessee residents&#8217; collections in commemoration of the World War I centennial observation.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p15138coll29\/search\/order\/identi\/ad\/asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view the items.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov\/exhibit\/the-volunteer-state-goes-to-war-a-salute-to-tennessee-veterans\/world-war-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view the TSLA blog post entitled The Volunteer State Goes to War: A Salute to Tennessee Veterans: World War I.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tslablog.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/honoring-tennessees-world-war-i.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to view the TSLA blog post entitled <em>Honoring Tennessee&#8217;s World War I Veterans on Memorial Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives (TSLA) created a county-level listing of veterans served in World War I.&nbsp; TSLA has a detailed explanation of its resources for World War I veterans.&nbsp; Click here to view the research guide. TSLA&#8217;s staff compiled a list of veterans from each county.&nbsp; Click here to view the Haywood County list (updated as of March 31, 2008). Another important searchable database at TSLA is Records of Ex-Soldiers in World War 1.&nbsp; It is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/world-war-i-veterans-of-haywood-county\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals","category-military-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/haywood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}