Our Patriotic Boys Stand True To The Country’s Call (1917)

“The Wayne County Times”
Waynesboro, Tennessee
June 14, 1917
Page 1


Tuesday was quite an eventful day in the history of Wayne County.  The call for registration of those qualified for draft purposes brought out a good many and it is thought that those coming within the draft age registered almost to a man. Below we give the total registered for each county precinct as follows:
1 Waynesboro
122

Hardins Creek
20

2 Clifton 95
3 Beech Creek 71
Bell Box 35
4 Collinwood 70
Upper Indian 42
Martins Mills 47
Bear Creek 33
5 Big Cypress 86
Second Creek 32
6 Allens Creek 69
Ashland 48
7 Butlers Creek 57
Middle Cypress 48
8 Factors Fork 60
Forty Eight 31

Total 966
The following is a list of those who registered at Waynesboro, and the age
and occupation of each.

Carmel Clarence Griggs, 21, farmer
Harry Allen Helton, 21, Postal Clerk
Amos Henry Skelton, 21, farmer
Freeman Boyd Melton, 21, laborer
Samuel Jackson, 21, farmer
Dollie Skelton, 21, farmer
Robert Newton Long, 21, farmer
Russell A. McLean, 21, farmer
Frank Rolland Boyd, 22, farmer
Elda Baize, 22, farmer
Thos. Sanders Howell. 22, farmer
Clyde Everett Dugan, 22, Sawyer
Bill Pulley, 2, farmer
Franklin Kerr Hurst, 22, teacher
Eunice Smith, 23, farmer
Eugene Fowler, 23, farmer
William Ralph Lee, 23, farmer
Sherrill Burlison, 23, laborer
Clint Shaw, 23, farmer
Edgar Clinton Bates, 23, laborer
Carry Frank Thompson, 23, farmer
Terry Cleveland Melton, 24, fireman
Charlie Walter Ray, 24, log cutter
Carl Nowlin, 24, farmer
Lewis Taylor Long, 24, farmer
Archie Brown, 24, farmer
John Carroll Helton, 24, merchant
Perry Clyde Walker, 24, carpenter
Art Helton, 25, farmer
____________Brown, 25, farmer [tear in newspaper]
George Clarence Duren, 25, farmer
Joe Jesse Staggs, 25, timber cutter
Cavil Bennett Cole, 25, farmer
Samuel Grady Treadwell, 25, farmer
Isaac Franklin Morgan, 25, farmer
Pleas Ward Dever, 25, farmer
Mack Pully, 25, farmer
Robert Cecil Keeton, 25, farmer
W. T. Harrison Skelton, 26, farmer
James Elmer Scott, 27, laborer
Elmer Walker, 27, Carpenter
Lon Brown, 28, farmer
Harrison Rose, 28, farmer
Walter Baker Whitby, 28, Blacksmith
Milas Greenberry Davis, 29, farmer
Snow McMillin Brewer, 29, farmer
Albert Skelton, 29, farmer
Wm. Edgar Moore, 29, farmer
Fielding Baker Hurst, 29, surveyor
Billie Brown, 29, farmer
Harris Boyd Bundrant, 30, salesman
Henry Clay Artis, 30, farmer
Bob Robert Belew, 30, farmer
Jesse Lee Rose, 30, farmer
F. Ernest Cole, 30, merchant
Alfred John Taylor, 30, farmer
E. Dodge Merriman, 29, farmer
James Wm. Martin, 29, farmer
Geo. Robert Flippo, 29, laborer
William C. Whitby, 29, blacksmith
Elijah V. Turman, 29, dep. trustee
Isaac Ulie Clay, 29, farmer
William Thos. Dever, 28, farmer
Solon Dever, 28, farmer
Lovic Russ Meredith, 28, mgr. tel.
Joseph H. Kilburn, 28, farmer
Dee Grossy Walker, 28, machinist
Lester Floyd Nowlin, 27, farmer
Douglas B. O’Guin, 27, teamster
Chas. Shields Bundrant, 17, farmer
R. R. Haggard, 27, lawyer
M. Herman Greeson, 27, farmer
John Henry Davis, 27, farmer
Amos Morrow, 26, laborer
Alfred Haywood Stutts, 26, farmer
Am. Andrew Ray, 26, farmer
Alvin Wesley McDonald, 26, farmer
Hiram Springer Hurst, 26, telephone
Wm. Harvey Melton, 25, laborer
Bill Jackson, 25, farmer
Stephen Harrison, 25, farmer
Arthur H. Mitchell, 24, teamster
Lonnie Virgil Casteel, 24, farmer
Eldred Morrison, 24, farmer
Jesse Keeton, 24, laborer
Claud L. Boyd, 24, lawyer
Fredric Turney Alley, 24, teacher
Wm. Mack Brewer, 24, salesman
Fred Lay, 24, farmer
Barney C. Skelton, 25, farmer
Luther Pully, 23, farmer
Wm. King Prater, 23, farmer
Frank Ray, 23, farmer
Willard M. Blessing, 23, laborer
Monroe Whitfield, 22, teamster
Edgar Joseph Smith, 22, farmer
Clifton Lampl, 22, woods foreman
Paul Jones Taylor, 22, salesman
Leonard Evans Clay, 22, salesman
Earnest M. Baker, 22, barber
Herbert Clarence Jones, 22, laborer
aarchie Wm. Lynch, 22, farmer
James Edgar Rose, 22 farmer
Lannie Keeton, 22, farmer
Sam Jasper Davis, 21, laborer
Wm. Harry Walker, 21, minister
Guilford Taylor Cole, 21, laborer
Farris Walker, 21, laborer
_______Jackson, 21, farmer [tear in newspaper]
Bill Staggs, 21, farmer
Parker Lay, 21, farmer
Gilp Wach. Taylor 21, yd. foreman
Alfred Pointer (col.), 22, laborer
Wesley Springer, (col.), 21, teamster
H. Jones Hicks, (col.), 28, laborer
Van A. Hickerson, (col.), 28, porter
John Pointer, (col.), 27, laborer
R. T. Craig, (col.), 24, laborer
Wress Churchwell, (col.), 24, teamster
Frank Hicks, (col.) 26, teamster.

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