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Nankin Veterans Memorial

 
 
Nankin Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, July 24, 2022
1. Nankin Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
Revolutionary War
John Tilton

Mexican War
John Campbell

War Of 1812
George Hanger • Patrick Murray • Wesley Richards • Jacob Switzer • James Kilgore

Civil War
Tobias Spiker • John Bayer • Solom Kissel • Peter Shelley • Vachel Bowman • Alfred Sturges • George Steimetz • Abraham Lotz • William Sadler • John Weedman • John B. Heat • T. P. Crowell • Hugh Murray • James Ilger • Frank Grimes • Jacob Brubaker • John McDowell • William Davidson • Joseph Lockhart • Samuel Pifer • George Burd • Andrew Numamaker • Thomas Donley • John Dall • George Stout • William Smurr • Israel Laughery • Samuel Lessley • David S. Youngblood • James H. Hulit • John Hartman • George W. Culbertson • Alfred Hamman • Daniel Hupp • Jacob Martin

Spanish-American War
John Sadler • Jacob Fluke • O.L. Sherik • William F. Berry • F.W. Brown • Fay Brown • Denton Millar • John M. Lessley

World War I
Joseph Tenschert • Harry H. Price • Clyde J. Stoner • Willard Davis • John McConnell • Leon Crowel • Stanley Campbell • John W. Stentz • Joe Mondragon • Ray E. Youngblood • Ivel Taylor • William White • Roy Price • Laurence Neiirk •
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Carson Swape • Wallace Barnhill • Alto Alexander • Marshall Morr • John Roberts • Charles Barr • Willis Caton • Eugene Paul Ford • Walter E. King • David E. Markel • Carl E. McDonald

World War II
Edward P. Franks • Henry Van Wye • Charks R. Stahl • Harry Olin Vaughn • Francis Hupp • Benjamin Tilley • Glenn C. Moose

World War II [again]
Harold Davis • George Fervis • Robert J. Hoges

Korean War

Vietnam War
Jack Eldon Geiger • Elmer C. Weaver
 
Erected by Nankin Boy Scout Troop 513.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 40° 55.288′ N, 82° 16.804′ W. Memorial is near Ashland, Ohio, in Ashland County. It is on Ohio 302, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 798 OH-302, Ashland OH 44805, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Amish Country. It is also in the American Midwest. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: A different marker also named Nankin Veterans Memorial (a few steps from this marker); This German Cannon (within shouting distance of this marker); Polk Veterans Monument (approx. 3.8 miles away); Freer Civil War Memorial (approx. 4.1
Nankin Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, July 24, 2022
2. Nankin Veterans Memorial
miles away); Ashland County Courthouse Bell (approx. 4.1 miles away); Ashland County Soldiers and Sailors Memorial (approx. 4.1 miles away); Ashland County Pioneer Memorial (approx. 4.1 miles away); Ashland County World War Memorial (approx. 4.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ashland.
 
Nankin Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, July 24, 2022
3. Nankin Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on August 27, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 16, 2022, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 337 times since then and 14 times this year. Last updated on August 22, 2023, by Carl Gordon Moore Jr. of North East, Maryland. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on August 16, 2022, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.
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