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Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial

 
 
Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 14, 2020
1. Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
These are soldiers from
Breckinridge County who
died in defense of their country

World War I
George W. Ahl • Johnie Brown • Corbett J. Burch • Walter V. Burnett • Claude E. Cundiff • Earl Curry • Roy Dowell • Henry H. Drane • Joseph Z. Dunn • Lonnie Durbin • James Durbin • Henry Eskridge • Henry Byron Hall • Charles Hanks • H. Everette Haycraft • Lewis H. Herndon • Thomas Higdon • James H. Jarboe • Henry W. Johnson • Verdie Johnson • Arthur W. Kannapel • Willie Lucas • Lennie A. Mattingly • Peter S. McCarty • Neil Moore • Roy E. Moore • Delbert D. Morgan • Joseph E. Schindler • Clarence H. Tincher • Fulton Whitworth • James R. Willis

World War II
Mack Alexander Jr. • Elbert O. Baldridge • James L. Ball • Millis Basham • Thomas E. Blair • Kenneth C. Brown • Onie A. Burnett, Jr. • Willie O. Canary • John L. Carwile • Junious W. Cashman • Charles R. Clark • Forest E. Clark • Luther H. Clemons • Wilbur F. Conner • Esker E. Cox • Robert L. Cross • Charlie A. Darnell • Frank Decker • Jacob Dehaven • James E. Dejarnett • Jesse L. Dowell • Victor R. Dowell • Willie E. Frank • George F. Fuqua • James Fulkerson, Jr. • Robert
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L. Gilbert • William E. Gregory • Hubert P. Hall • Johnie Hawkins • William F. Jordan • William E. Jones • John W. Kannapel • Hillary M. Kennedy • John W. Knight • James C. Lampton • Raymond L. Lane • Marvin Marlow • Hollis H. Marr • Herbert T. Mattingly • Robert D. May • Oliver T. McCarty • Willie E. McCarty • L.T. Nix, Jr. • Bernard Norton • Maurice F. O'Connell • William D. Oliver • Charles E. Osborne • Francis Pate • John M. Pike • Samuel O. Pile • Strother T. Preston • Jesse R. Robinson • Coleman W. Sanders • Audra Smith • James A. Snyder • Elza Spaulding • James M. Stevens • John K. Voiles • Carl R. Weatherholt • James E. Wells • Melvin C. Williams • Robert H. Wilson • Lenuel B. Wright • Charles H. Yates • Martin D. Young

Korean
William E. Cooper • Joseph W. Grause • Ova L. Haire • Freeman Lindsey • Felix C. Sharp • Pat Whitlet

Vietnam
Hubert Wayne Miller • Vernon L. Shellman

 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 37° 50.225′ N, 86° 38.075′ W. Memorial is in Cloverport, Kentucky, in Breckinridge County. It is at the intersection of West Main
Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 14, 2020
2. Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial
Street (State Road 2200) and Center Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 314 West Main Street, Cloverport KY 40111, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Kentucky’s Western Coal Field. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, and in the Ohio River Valley. Globally, it is in 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 and also the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Cloverport Veterans Monument (here, next to this marker); Lincoln Family Trail (here, next to this marker); First Coal Oil (within shouting distance of this marker); Early Shipping Point (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Cloverport History 1729-1802 (about 600 feet away); Cloverport History 1803-1813 (about 700 feet away); Cloverport History 1816-1828 (about 700 feet away); Cloverport History 1830-1860
Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 14, 2020
3. Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial
(about 800 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Cloverport.
 
Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 14, 2020
4. Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial
Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Jason Voigt, September 29, 2025
5. Breckinridge County Veterans Memorial
reverse side
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on October 17, 2025. It was originally submitted on November 17, 2020, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 568 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on November 17, 2020, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.   5. submitted on October 16, 2025, by Jason Voigt of Glen Carbon, Illinois.
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