Nashville in Nash County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

World War II Memorial

Photographed by Mark Parker, July 22, 2024

1. World War II Memorial Marker

Inscription. In memory of those who gave their lives for their country in World War II, 1941-45. To the honor of those men from Nash County who entered the service of their country in World War II, and gave their lives that others might enjoy the blessings of liberty, this tablet is lovingly dedicated.

Walter J. Alexander • Charles B. Allsbrook • Lester R. Anderson • Mercer W. Avent • Tom George Avent • John David Baker • Shelton A. Baker • Horace Marvin Barnes • Van C. Barnes • Robert Bass • Daniel J. Battle • Turner W. Battle • James R. Batts Jr. • George Lee Bissett • Paul A. Bostic • Haywood Edison Brantley • Jasper K. Brantley • William Horace Brantley • Homer P. Braswell • Sheldon Parker Braswell • James L. Brown • Walter E. Brown • Robert Bryant • Mark Settle Bunn • Jay C. Byers • Johnnie Canty • Otis L. Carpenter • Joseph D. Cockrell • James Aussie Coggin • Bennie W. Coleman • Sidney B. Collie • Hodge L. Collins • Alfred S. Cooper • Henry C. Cooper, Jr • Lawrence Cooper • Howard W. Crusenberry • Johnnie Davis • Nichols Maynard Dozier • Amos L. Eason • William M. Eason • George W. Edge

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• Opie Gray Edwards • Raymond E. Edwards • Robert Lee Edwards • A. J. English • Burnice C. Farmer • Ernest Clifton Fisher • Julian E. Ford • Worth B. Fulghum • David E. Gardiner • James O. Gilbert • Norman Gilliam • Stephen Freedy Glover • James E. Grantham • Dayton Green • Horace Griffin • Charles Gruenberg • Hosea Cornelius Harrison, Jr. • Spencer R. Hayes • Robert L. Hedgepeth • Annie M. Hendricks • Grover Cleveland Hicks, Jr. ¥ Gerald High • Leroy Hinton • James G. Holmes • James Willard Honeycutt • Pharoah I. Hopkins • Flavius M. Hopkins • Monnue H. Israel, Jr. • Arthur L. Johnson • Johnnie L. Jones • Preston O. Jones • Henry B. Joyner • Julian Y Joyner • Edward A. Kemp, Jr. • R. W. Kennedy, Jr. • Louis M. Killebrew • John T. Lamm • Samuel J. Langston • John T. Lee • Jasper E. Leonard • John Herbert Liles • John Bonnie Lindsey • Joe Lyon • Joe L. Manning • Oliver M. Manning • Ernest Roger Mayo John R. Minton • Buddie E. Morris • Darnell Murray • John D. Nelms • Ollie Morris Nelms • Willie Odom • Wallace R. Purkerson • Oliver Worth Peele • Wade L. Pitt • Paul Pittman • Davis

World War II Memorial at the far left of the entrance of the historic Nash County Courthouse image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, July 22, 2024

2. World War II Memorial at the far left of the entrance of the historic Nash County Courthouse

F. Privette • Clifton H. Rackley • Johnnie Richardson • Jack O. Riley • Charlie L. Rose • Robert L. Rosenbloom • Janes Randolph Rowland • Joseph Safy • Arthur Schulken • Lloyd Short • Maurice Sills • George C. Skinner • Lubie E. Smith. Jr. • Robert Holmes Smith • Troy W. Smith • Warren Stallings • Wilson D. Stallings • J. M. Strickland • Jack Stone • Kenneth Tant • Henry Alton Taylor • Laddie W Taylor • John D. Thackston, Jr. • Homer C. Thorne • Willis H. Todd • James W. Vaughan • Assail Benjamin Vick • Raymond J. Vick • Stancil W. Vick • James A. Walker • R. D. Wells, Jr. • George W. Whitley, Jr • Jon H. Wiggs, Jr. • Curtis G. Williams • Thomas W. Wilson • Daniel E. Winstead • Medford Winstead

Missing In Action
Roney W. Bailey • Randolph M. Brantley • Robert Bryant • Paul Davis • Claude Jones • Frank K. Layton • Charles L. Moore • Karl B. Shearin • Lovelace Williams

The names inscribed above are those whose lives were lost in the various branches of service. There is a roster in the archives of this building in which is recorded the name and record of service of each one from this

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county who participated in the war.

Erected by Nash County Board of Commissioners.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.

Location. 35° 58.529′ N, 77° 58.094′ W. Memorial is in Nashville, North Carolina, in Nash County. It can be reached from the intersection of West Washington Street (North Carolina Route 58) and North Drake Street, on the right when traveling west. Located at the entrance to the Nash County Courthouse. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 234 W Washington St, Nashville NC 27856, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in North Carolina’s Piedmont.

It is also in the American 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 original Thirteen Colonies,

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: Vietnam War (here, next to this marker); Korean War (here, next to this marker); 1917-1918 (here, next to this marker); Grateful Remembrance of Nash County Boys (here, next to this marker); The Charters of Freedom (a few steps from this marker); Francis Nash Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); Harold D. Cooley (approx. 0.4 miles away); Nash County Vietnam Veterans Memorial (approx. 8.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Nashville.

Credits. This page was last revised on July 25, 2024. It was originally submitted on July 24, 2024, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 321 times since then and 43 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 24, 2024, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.