Servicemen From Tilton Marker

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Tilton in Vermilion County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Servicemen From Tilton
World War I, Korean War, Vietnam War Memorial

World War I - - Center Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

1. World War I - - Center Marker

Inscription.

Center Memorial World War I
Servicemen from Tilton Left Column:
William E. Arnold • Jack Ashbaugh • Christ Benekas • John Lester Billman • Harry H. Blue, Sr. • Elbert O. Bolser • Milton Burlin • Ray C. Cox • Roscoe N. Dorsett • Dial W. Elam • Robert Farnaum • Charles Russell Ford • James W. Fox • Russell Gallez • Thornton Gallez • Herschel Gillis • Forn Gillis • Robert Otis Gooch • Jessie R. Gritton • Leroy Hamick • Clyde Harrier • Hersel Holman • John Holman • John H. Irving • Ernest L. Jones • D. Stewart Jones • Paul Keefer • Edward Lang • Elmer Lawson • William Lewis • Buel M. Liggett • Cord O. Liggett • Oscar Little • Lester C. Madden • Earl Ray Markle • C. V. McClung

Right Column:
Hubert C. Messenger • Brenner Messenger • Albert D. Montgomery • Charles D. Montgomery • Don Moulton • Ed Nelson • Howard O’Toole • John C. Osborn • John Perkes • Roy Pratt • Bailey W. Ramsey • Forrest J. Ramsey • Otis Ranger • Herbert Rupert • William Russell • Jesse R. Sater • Albert P. Shanks • Louis A. Sigman • George Fredrick Smith • Joseph M. Smith • William Smith • Edwin A. Songer • Herman F. Songer • Lawrence Stallings • William Alta Steelman • Lawrence S. Swisher • Louis A. Turner • William Tway • Edward J. Waughman • E. C. Weaver • Fay Wildman • Benjamin Wiley •

Korean War Marker - - Lower View Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

2. Korean War Marker - - Lower View

George Williams • William T. Wilson • Albert Donald Woodard • Floyd Wantland

Left Memorial Korean War
Servicemen from Tilton Left Column:
Robert T. Boyde • Harry K. Beever • Kenneth E. Blue • Richard A. Blue • Alfred Bott • Harold Bott • Robert L. Bracewell • Clarence D. Burton • James Carder • Everett Carlson • Donald Copsy • Donald R. Cordes • Donald O. Cravens • Lyman Criswell • John C. Culp • Clifford Cundiff • Donald Cunningham • Robert Delaurier • Alva Devore • Donald Gay • Robert Gay • Barny Goff • William J. Gombert • John S. Harrier • Robert Jones • Donald Kizer • Ivan Dale Liggett • Jack Linne • Aime Harry Lyons • Robert Lyons • Harry W. Maillet • Richard Martin • Robert Masterson • Cecil C. Matteucci • Gilbert H. Matteucci • Wane H. Powers

Right Column:
Gerald R. Jones • Fannie M. Mikel • Fred C. Miller • James D. Miller, Jr. • Robert L. Montgomery • Frank Moran • Edward Mumford • Tom Oliphant • John (Jack) Parezo • * Junior Eugene Parezo • Harry Phillips • Elmo Eugene Poynter • Donald Reed • Norman Ross • James Shafer • James Richard Shephard, Sr. • Donald R. Siddens • Zean P. Smalley, Jr. • Arnold Dean Smiley • Donald Smith • Robert L. Stevens • * Edward L. Swearinger • Ray Triplett • Jack Turner • Conrad “Dutch” Wantland • Tom Wantland • Floyd Wear • William Benjamin Wear

Vietnam War - - Lower View Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

3. Vietnam War - - Lower View

• Charles Welker • Donald E. Welker • Maurice Williams • Robert Williams • Paul Winkler • James Wynn • Earl Zimmerman

* Killed In Action

Right Memorial: Vietnam War
Servicemen from Tilton Left Column:
Frank A. Hall • Floyd Lesley Barbee, Jr. • Walter Barnett • Randy W. Boggess • Dennis Robert Boyd • James Robert Boyd • Rick Alan Boyd • Leon Brown, Jr. • Harry D. Burton, Jr. • Billie Dean Carder • Willaim “Bill” Carter • Danny Eugene Cox • John D. Culp • Kenneth Eugene Cumbow • Howard M. Davis • Oliver Gene Davis, Jr. • * Perry Dickens • Randy Dunbar • Marion Gene Fellers • Earl Joseph Fellers, II • John Thomas Fletcher • Donald G. Frazier, Jr. • Charles Andres Gossett • Paul M. Gritton • Gary Gene Harrier • Larry Allen Heaton • Oliver Dean Hendricks • Thomas Hilgeman • Edward L. James • Ralph Hubert Johnson, Jr. • Richard Allen Jones • Karl Frederick Krabbe • James Dale LaFrance • William L. Lyons • George E. Halls • Steven M. Boggess • Jeffrey B. Wakeland

Right Column:
Raymond D. Jones • Richard Eugene Martin • Russell McCoy • James Franklin Melton, Jr. • John Milewski • William C. Milewski • Melvin Mingee • Danny L. Montgomery • Gregory L. Montgomery • Johnie Joe Osborne • Mark Edward Peevler, Jr. • John Phillips • Steve Phillips • William Priest • Raymond Alan Reynolds

Servicemen From Tilton, Illinois - - Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

4. Servicemen From Tilton, Illinois - - Marker

• Everette E. Rice • Carl Robertson • Floyd Ronk, Sr. • Claude Shanks • Louis Shanks • Scott Alan Siddens • Dennis Simpkins • Keith Smiley • William “Bill” Smith • Leland Eugene Tapscott • Paul E. Thomas • Ray Triplett • Larry D. Tyler • James C. Voss • Patrick Henry Wangler • Gary Williams • Jeff Williams • William F. Oliphant • Ronald D. Oliphant

* Killed In Action

See the nearby "Tilton Honor Roll" Marker honoring Tilton area World War II service members

Erected by Tilton Historical Society.

Location. 40° 6.108′ N, 87° 39.122′ W. Marker is in Tilton, Illinois, in Vermilion County. Marker is on West Fifth Street west of North H Street, on the right when traveling west. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Tilton IL 61833, United States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, as the crow flies. Tilton Honor Roll (within shouting distance of this marker); Abraham Lincoln in Tilton, Illinois (within shouting distance of this marker); Trail of Death 1838 (approx. 1.7 miles away); Robert E. Wurtsbaugh (approx. 1.7 miles away); Aircraft in Honor of Chanute Air Force Base (approx. 1.7 miles away); Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District (approx. 1.8 miles away); World War I Memorial (approx. 1.8 miles away); Danville's Lincoln (approx. 1.9 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Tilton.

Top View - - W. W. I Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

5. Top View - - W. W. I Marker

Regarding Servicemen From Tilton. In front of the old Tilton School Building now the Lions Club Community Center.

W. W. I Marker - - Lower View Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

6. W. W. I Marker - - Lower View

Top View - - Korean War - - Left Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

7. Top View - - Korean War - - Left Marker

Top View - - Vietnam War - - Right Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

8. Top View - - Vietnam War - - Right Marker

Old Tilton School - - Behind War Memorials Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

9. Old Tilton School - - Behind War Memorials

Coal Mining Service Train - - - To The Right of Tilton War Markers Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

10. Coal Mining Service Train - - - To The Right of Tilton War Markers

Sign on Coal Mine Service Train Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

11. Sign on Coal Mine Service Train

These Mine Locomotives and Coal Car donated to the Village of Tilton by Emil J. Mallet. They will be used to build a permanent monument dedicated to the respectful remembrance of Our Heritage.

Tilton Time Capsule Photo, Click for full size

By Al Wolf, September 7, 2008

12. Tilton Time Capsule

Behind the War Memorials is the "Tilton Time Capsule" on the East Side of the Lions Club Community Center (near East side entrance).

Credits. This page originally submitted on September 13, 2008, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana. This page has been viewed 2,620 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. submitted on September 13, 2008, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.