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Wars
Take Their Toll
Sixty-seven
young men and one Red Cross nurse from Monroe County and the Monroe City
community made the supreme sacrifice with their lives in defending their
home and country in three wars, World War I, and World War II and the
Korean War, or lost their life while serving in the armed forces.
A
large plaque in the Monroe County courthouse at Paris lists the names of
the servicemen, a gold star representing those who gave their life.
World
War I
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Edgar
E. McCann
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Thomas
Rouse
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Clarence
McGaitland
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Basil
H. Barney
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Russell
E. Curtright
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William
G. Daily
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John
W. Davis
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Lloyd
Elington
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Charles
W. Forbis
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Benjamin
W. Grigsby
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James
H. Guthrie
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Estill
C. Harris
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William
H. Hinebaugh
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Ruby
R. Hughes
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Ival
E. Jenkins
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Edward
E. Magruder
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Charles
E. Power
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Ernest
Short
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Ira
J. Walkup
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Miss
Christine Colborn, Red Cross Nurse
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World
War II
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Theodore
F. Arnoldy
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Arthur
Duke Dean
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Joseph
T. Finnigan
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James
Roy Key
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Harold
Clifton Kern
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Neal
E. Little
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L.
N. Landrum
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Harold
B. Painter
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Hubert
B. Shuck
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C.
D. Ash
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Robert
Bounds
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Eibert
N. Brown
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John
M. Butner
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Bennie
E. Castleman
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George
M. Clark
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Thomas
C. Creed
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Robert
Donaldson
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Don
Kenyon Delaney
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Bud
Emmons
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Harold
J. Gwartney
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Kenneth
E. Howe
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Caskie
V. Hayden
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Jimmy
Roy Heathman
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Paul
Jett
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James
E. Ellis
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George
C. Kluge
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Clyde
B. Landis
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Harris
Roy Meadows
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James
T. McGee
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Priest
McFarland
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James
Matteson
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Harold
Newton
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Verle
E. Scobee
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Audrey
W. Tipton
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James
Vaughn
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Lewis
Webber
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Roscoe
Wood
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Pearl
Yount
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Other
men from this area, in Ralls, Marion and Shelby counties, whose names did
not appear on the Monroe County plaque included:
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William
P. Chisharn
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J.
Oscar Kinzer
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Wilfred
Gordanier
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Robert
Fry
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James
H. Gibbs
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Orville
Montgomery
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William
E. Shoemyer
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Harold
Dusenberry
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James
Oscar Little
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and
J. C. Harrison.
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Prisoners
of War
Six
men from this community were captured during World War II and held in
enemy camps. Jennings B. Craig and Robert Powell were captured on
Corregidor and held by the Japanese for 40 months. Dalton McClintock, Carl
Shively, J. Y. Montgomery and Mike Ketsenburg were captured by the Germans
and held captive for several months before their liberation.
Civil
War Veterans
These
Confederate veterans, who fought in the Civil War and returned to take up
their residence again in Monroe City, are buried in St. Jude’s cemetery:
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Abraham
Bird
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Maj.
R. B. Bristow
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W.
G. Barger
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John
D. Clark
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William
Cassady
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William
Catron
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Leonard
Crisler
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D.
G. Davenport
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Rev.
J. C. Davis
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Samuel
G. Demaree
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Rev.
Mr. DeMoss
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A.
K. Ely
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D.
K. Ely
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T.
D. Freeman
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W.
F. Gander
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T.
J. Griffith
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Nelson
Harris
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B.
F. Hickman
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D.
N. Hendrix
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J.
T. Jones
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C.
0. Jordan
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Wesley
Lewellen
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J.
S. McClintic
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William
Shields McClintic
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William
Shanklin McClintic
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J.
H. (Tip) McClintic
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G.
B. McGlasson
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Dr.
J. J. Norton
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Dr.
John C. Norman
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J.
C. Patterson
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Dr.
Thomas C. Proctor
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A.
B. Ragland
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Jacob
Rouse
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Bryan
Swearengen
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James
Sullivan
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John
Williamson
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Rev.
Mr. Willis
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B.
0. Wood
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Holy
Rosary cemetery:
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Samuel
Abell
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Isaac
A. Borden
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Patrick
Corcoran
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Edward
Hardesty
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Mr.
Ryan
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Thomas
J. Yates.
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Union
veterans: Major A. V. E. Johnston (killed in battle with Bill Anderson’s
guerilla band of 305 men in the Centralia, Mo., massacre Sept. 26, 1864),
Felix Wunch.
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