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Quitman Veterans Memorial

 
 
Quitman Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, March 25, 2017
1. Quitman Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
To Those Who Gave Much. To Those Who Gave All
Quitman and Brooks County Dedicates This Memorial
November 11, 1921


Erected by Quitman Chapter
United Daughters of The Confederacy

1st Lt. Wilbur Oglesby
Privates
Arthur Culpepper · Gordon B. Eppey · Arthur McGriffin · Harvey Nesmith · Cecil M. Rogers · Jas. H. Sapp · James B. Shearer · Wilbur Sweat · Gordon Smith · Hiram Treadaway · Robert L. Williams · John H. Wilson · Oliver Parker · James R. Perry · Lonnie L. Smith · Willie Snow · William Eubanks · Chas. Dodd · Ben F. Mccranie · Archie Bowen
Colored Privates
Frank R. Anderson · Ray Adams · David Witherspoon · Henry Bell · Solomon Jones · Memory Clark · Sam Moseley · Oscar Bryant · Wallace Bell
Above World War I
Below World War II
Brant J. Corker · Elzie Davis · Wesley Giddens · James B. Gray · Livingston Horne · Charlie J. Massey · James Mosley · Ernest B. Lovett · Terrence Massey · L.B. McDaniel · H.G. McDonald, Jr. · Lowry McDonald · Clarence Monk · Edward Newsome · Theron F. Nichols · J.H. Oesterricher · C.A. Pike · Lewis Pike · Herman Randall · Floyd Rogers · Thomas Shiver · Sherrod Simpson · Clarence
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Smith · James W. Strickland · Robert Strickland · J.C. Swan · R.C. Tison, Jr. · J.D. Ward, Jr. · Calvin Julian Watson · James S. Webb · John Woods · Robert Wolner · Wilson H. Alderman · Thomas N. Arrington, Jr. · Paul Bass · Douglas Boles · Edward M. Bozeman · Emmett D. Brooks · William L. Busby, Jr. · Bobbie Cone · William Elry Dean · John Devane · Emerson Lamar Elwell · Medvin Ferrell · Joe Folsom · Everett Graham · Elmo Green · Pm. Grier · Murray T. Horne · Henry D. Howard · Clarence M. Jones · Murray T. Johnson · Charlie N. Jones · Dewey W. Jordan · Mose Kearse · Floyd H. Kendricks · Duncan M. Kennedy
 
Erected 1921 by Quitman Chapter United Daughters of The Confederacy.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 30° 47.116′ N, 83° 33.615′ W. Memorial is in Quitman, Georgia, in Brooks County. It is at the intersection of E. Screven Street and S. Court Street, on the right when traveling west on E. Screven Street. Located next to the Brooks County Courthouse. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 100
Quitman Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, March 25, 2017
2. Quitman Veterans Memorial
E Screven Street, Quitman GA 31643, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Georgia’s Coastal Plain. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and in the Wiregrass. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Brooks County Courthouse (within shouting distance of this marker); Brooks County (within shouting distance of this marker); Our Confederate Dead (within shouting distance of this marker); Civil War Slave Conspiracy (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Brooks County Veterans Monument (about 300 feet away); Quitman United Methodist Church (approx. Ό mile away); West End Cemetery (approx. 0.4 miles away); Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church (approx. 2.6
Quitman Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, March 25, 2017
3. Quitman Veterans Memorial
miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Quitman.
 
Quitman Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, March 25, 2017
4. Quitman Veterans Memorial
Quitman Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Michael Herrick, March 25, 2017
5. Quitman Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on March 27, 2017. It was originally submitted on March 27, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut. This page has been viewed 1,027 times since then and 40 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on March 27, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
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