DUGGER, William Frank, Serial Number 2873283, served in the US Army from 28 May 1918 until his honorable discharge on 14 Dec 1918. He was a son of James and Martha Sarah WOODARD DUGGER and was born 9 June 1886 on Factory Creek, Route 5, Wayne County, Tennessee. He had three brothers, Blaine, Jason and Ethridge; four sisters, Lessie Belle, Vada and Rose; and a half-brother, Andrew LARD.

When he was inducted into the army at the age of thirty-one, he was a farmer. He went to Camp Pike, Arkansas, and was a mechanic in the Headquarters Detachment, 10th Battalion. His special job was shoeing horses. He was in New York at the port of embarkation ready to board the ship to go “over there” in November 1918, when word was received that the Armistice has been signed. Therefore he was discharged on 14 Dec 1918. Remarks on his discharge due to demobilization read, “no absences from duty, sincere, honest and faithful.”

He returned to the home of his mother on Sweetwater Branch and resumed farming and blacksmithing.

On 1 Jan 1922, at the age of thirty-five, he married his neighbor girl, eighteen year old Zada CLAY. To them eight children were born: four girls and four boys. They were in chronological order, William James Clay, Mary Elizabeth May, Sarah Orbadean, Ella Louise, Martha Frances, Joseph Franklin, Paul Neal and Howard Earl. James Clay married Bertha MATHIS, had five children and died in an accident at age 28. Mary Elizabeth May married J. M. CLAYTON, had no children and died at age 55. Sarah Orbadean married James STOOKSBERRY, had no children and died at age 42. Ella Louise married Willard Lee CREAMER and has three children and is retired from the Tennessee Valley Authority Accounting Department. Martha Frances married Herman THOMPSON, had three children and died at age 58. Joe Frank married Petty PATTERSON and has four children. Paul Neal married Lou Ann BREWER and has three children. Howard Earl married Linda DUGGER and has two children.

Frank died in July 1968, after forty-six years of happily married life. He is buried at McGee Cemetery on Sweetwater, in sight of where he was born and grew up. His widow, Zada, died in July 1973, and was buried beside him in McGee Cemetery.

DUGGER, Joseph Jason, Serial Number 4430796, served in the US Army from August 1918 to January 1919. He was as son of James and Martha WOODARD DUGGER. He was born 23 July 1896 on Factory Creek, Route 5, in Wayne County, Tennessee. He had three brothers, Blaine, Frank, and Ethridge; four sisters: Lessie, Rose, Belle, and Vada; and a half-brother, Andrew LARD.

At an early age he became a teacher in Wayne County, taking training at the Wayne County Teacher’s Institute. Then on 30 August 1918 he, at the age of 22, answered the call to serve his country. He was first a member of Co. C, section B, Students Army Training Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville until 27 Oct 1918. Then he was sent to Camp Forrest, Georgia and was in the 20th Engineers until 1 Jan 1919. He was honorably discharged 31 Jan 1919.

After his discharge, Jason returned to pursue his career in education. He earned college credits as he taught in Wayne and Lawrence counties. In 1929, he received his degree at State Teachers’ College, Murfreesboro, TN and later his masters degree at Peabody College, Nashville. He served as principal and teacher in Gordonsville, Cowan and Dickson County. About 1933, he returned to Wayne County to help care for his aged, ailing mother. He taught at Frank Hughes High School, Clifton, for a short time before becoming Superintendent of Schools of Wayne County in 1936 where he served until 1942. He then went to Illinois and taught for a few months until he received a government mission to the Baffin Islands.

While in the Baffin Islands, he remembered his sweetheart of more than twenty-five years with whom he had broken up. She was Miss Hattie Lee MURPHY of Columbia, Tennessee. He decided to send her a card. The correspondence picked up and when he came home in June, they were married, in 1943. They lived in Columbia for some time operating a Dairy Dip. Then a few years later they moved to Nashville running the Tennessee Motel on Dickerson Road until his death as a result of a massive heart attack on 3 March 1969. He was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Columbia, Tennessee. His wife was later buried beside him in 1987.