Jackson in Madison County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Madison County World War I Memorial Fountain

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 13, 2021

1. Madison County World War I Memorial Fountain

Inscription. (Side 1)
This fountain is erected by
the surgical dressings workers
of the World War in admiration of
the living and to honor the dead
who answered their country's call.
1917-1918 Rosa Mercer Armstrong • Emma Collins Blackard • Nell Neudifer Bond • Kate Broad • Mary Elizabeth Buford • Ruth Lindsey Campbell • Molly Mears Cartmell • Medora Caruthers • Lula Hayley Christman • Florence Searles Cooke • Mary Ryan Cotter • Mabel Fenner Cummings • Ola Mai Bryant Cundiff • Janie S. Curtiss • Annie Rhea Dabney • Mary Happel Dancy • Rebecca Allison Dudley • Nell Benton Edenton • Emma Neil Gates • Mary Alexander Hartmus • Katherine Wisdom Hazelton • Mary Murray Hughes • Mary Jones Ingram • Adeline Munroe Kimbrough • Guy Allen Leeper • Alice Davis Long • Annette McClaran • Hilda Godwin McClaran • Eva Louise Taylor McElroy • Mamie Lee McKinnie • Sue Lee Mainord • Ruby Ramage Milbourne • Wilma Polk Moneypenny • Minnie Neely Murdock • Lillian Howard Murphy • Eloise Murray • Maria St. Agnes Murray • Evelyn Pearcy Pearson • Lita Cassel Ridley • Laura Jobe Russell • Mary Eliza Balch Scott • Lizzie Ryan Scruggs • Ruby Allen Sickels

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• Eddie Lee Anthony Smith • Mabel Goff Smith • Roxie Snider • Sarah Hearne Spraggins • Mary Sue Tigrett • Ida Moran Timberlake • Irma Black Tomlin • Dorothy Robbins White • Jesse Thompson Williamson • Patty Long Wisdom • Sarah R. Woodall • Christena Wright • Mary Jones Young

(Side 2)
“To live in hearts we leave
behind, is not to die.”
1917 In Memoriam 1918 Henry Scott Baxter • Fred T. Bell • Lewis T. Bond • Charles C. Broadwell • Herman F. Brumley • James M. Burch • John R. Burkett • Floyd Chandler • Frank G. Childs • James Edwin Cocks • Gordon B. Collins • Hamilton Conger • James D. Cummings • Ethelbert Day • John A. Deaver • John Carroll Doyle • Birdo Fore • Jodie Forester • Edgar Foster • Floyd L. Giles • Obed Dubart Gobelet • George L. Gray • Carmack Howell • William Calvin Hunt • Andrew Jobe • Lofton G. Lambert • Joseph A. Laney • William Benton Lewis • Roy Lynch • Robert E. McAdoo • Clarence McFarlane • Robert Guilford McFarlane • Lonnie W. Milan • Charles Whitfield Morrow • William Myers • Walter Frank Nesbitt • Daniel A. Nettles • Willie Coke Nichols • Cornelius Novell • John Evans McCall Poole • Thomas E.

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 13, 2021

2. Madison County World War I Memorial Fountain

Ricketts • Herbert Roach • Thomas L. Robinson • Wm. Arthur Scammerhorn • Alvin Howard Sumler • Albert Thornton • Newton Vandenbrook • Edgar Lawrence Yandell
“The right is more precious
than peace.”
Woodrow Wilson.

(Side 3)
Madison County War Dead
(not listed on the original fountain plaque) Todd Barksdale • Lewis T. Bond • John W. Brown • Herman T. Brumbley • Floyd Chandler • Willie G. Croft • Walter Graves • Ben Lake • John B. McClellan • Arlington Asbury Malloy • Ray Mandes • Horace Massey • Charlie Nicholson • Moody Smith • Bill Trice • Willie Utley • Savannah A. Williamson • George Winchester

Erected 1922 by Surgical Dressings Workers of the Jackson McClaran Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, World I • Women.

Location. 35° 36.846′ N, 88° 49.118′ W. Memorial is in Jackson, Tennessee, in Madison County. It is on East Main Street, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 100 East Main Street, Jackson TN 38301, United States of America. Touch

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 13, 2021

3. Madison County World War I Memorial Fountain

for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in West Tennessee.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and specifically in the Upper South.

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,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: David Crockett (a few steps from this marker); Lynching in America / Lynching in Madison County (a few steps from this marker); World War I Memorial Fountain (a few steps from this marker); Madison County Memorial Flame (within shouting distance of this marker); Madison County Confederate Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); Elite Building (within shouting distance of this marker); 61st US Colored Infantry Regiment (within shouting distance of this marker); 110 N. Liberty (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Jackson.

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 13, 2021

4. Madison County World War I Memorial Fountain

Credits. This page was last revised on March 16, 2021. It was originally submitted on March 16, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 453 times since then and 27 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 16, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.