Spencer in Van Buren County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Van Buren County Veterans Memorial

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, July 24, 2021

1. Van Buren County Veterans Memorial (front)

Inscription. (front)
Honoring all who served and dedicated to the memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice

World War I Chambers, Angers • Griffith, Alex C. • Grissom, Jim Bryan • Medley, Charlie • Vanwinkle, Arthur G.

World War II Baker, Millard E. • Bayless, Monroe H. • Binkley, Joseph A. • Bumbalough, Hubert E. • Grissom, Robert M. • Grissom, Robert • Guy, David Ray • Horton, Otta L. • Manus, Thanual B. • Martin, Elmer • Measles, James R. • Mills, Claude M. • Norris, E. L. • Paine, William • Roberts, Isaac D. • Templeton, Charles I.

Korean War
Delong, Howard • Vanwinkle, Clayton
(reverse side)
Viet Nam Groves, Robert S. • Hitchcock, Tillmon P. • Oakes, Arnold G. • Hodges, Larry L. • Rogers, Thomas F. Jr.

Erected by Veterans of Foreign Wars, Van Buren County Post 5127.

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

Location. 35° 44.85′ N, 85° 28.032′ W. Memorial is in Spencer, Tennessee, in Van Buren County. It is on College Street (Tennessee Route 30) west of Sparta Street, on the

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right when traveling west. Marker is on the Van Buren County Courthouse grounds. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 179 Veterans Square, Spencer TN 38585, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau

and in the Highland Rim.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Southern Appalachia. 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 9 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Van Buren County Civil War Monument (here, next to this marker); Van Buren County Veterans Monument (a few steps from this marker); Burritt College (approx. ¼ mile away); War on the Plateau (approx. ¼ mile away); Haston Station (approx. 4 miles away); Bragg’s March to Kentucky (approx. 4.6 miles away); Gilbert Gaul, Civil War Painter

Van Buren County Veterans Memorial (back) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, July 24, 2021

2. Van Buren County Veterans Memorial (back)

(approx. 7.9 miles away); Fall Creek Falls (approx. 8.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Spencer.

Van Buren County Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, July 24, 2021

3. Van Buren County Veterans Memorial

Monument is left of the flagpole.

Credits. This page was last revised on July 25, 2021. It was originally submitted on July 25, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 392 times since then and 25 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on July 25, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.