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.