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Surry County Veterans Memorial

 
 
Surry County War Memorial Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, December 30, 2024
1. Surry County War Memorial Marker
Inscription. This memorial is dedicated to those men and women from Surry County who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country.

(center piece)
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Address at Gettysburg
November 19, 1963

(Left Panels)
Revolutionary War
1775 - 1783

Mark Armstrong • Micajah Lewis • Richard Taliaferro • Levi Eldridge

Mexican American War
1846-1848


Civil War
1861-1865
North Carolina Inf Co. A. 2nd. Regiment

Isaac William Ashburn • John W. Ashburn • James H. Baker • Martin V. Barker • James R. Belton • William A. Bray • Edmond Cobler • Greenville Cobler • Nicholas Cobler • Dudley Coe • Gideon Copeland • Enoch Corder • Washington Cox • Gabriel L. Davis • Richard Donethan • Reuben Dunnegan • James Lawrence Forkner
Civil War Continued
Hugh Freeman • Orison T. Gordon • Samuel Griffith • Adam Hauser • Samuel P. Hauser • John B. Haymore • Henry
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Hines • Andrew J. Hodges • Yancey A. Holt • Martin R. Holyfield • James W. Hudson • Norman Isaacs • Silas Jones • Lewis Key • Samuel Key • Iohn H. Krouse • William C. Laffoon • Joesph Lineback • David Linville • William Mahone • William B. Meton • Isaac Moore • Allison McGee • David McKinney • Samuel J. Nichols • James C. Parsons • Joseph J. Pell • John Poor • Livi Poor • William F. Poor • John Reece • Ira L. Shaw • Isaac Shore • John Smith • John H. Stone • Isaac Thompson • Peter L. Tilley • Sanford Watson • James R. Waugh • John H. Williams • Andrew S. Wilson

Company C. 21st Regiment N.C. Troops
Willam A. Armstrong • Jonathan Barker • Azariah Denny • Ambrous Dickens • J. F. Edwards • W. H. Farris • William L. Franklin • William B. Galyean • J. M. Gillespie • David S. Hatcher • Rubert D. Herring • Jesse Hedges • B. F. Kidd • Daniel Lowe • Daniel McGee • Columbus C. Martin • James Moore • Dickerson Norman • Henry F. Norman • John Payne • John W. Phillips • Charles W. Raney • Robert G. Sanders • William Senter • Byrd Snow • Frost Snow • Oscar Venable • Hiram G. Wall
Surry County Veterans Memorial centerpiece image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, December 30, 2024
2. Surry County Veterans Memorial centerpiece
• John Whitlock • Ezekiel Wilmoth • Aaron B. Wright

Company H 21st Regiment N. C. Troops
John G. Adams • William H. Adams • Israel T. Ansom • Henry H. Bledsoe • William H. Bledsoe • Iredell Brown • Jesse Bullen • Nicholas F. Butcher • John C. Churcher • John Cockerham • James L. Draughn • Joel Dunigan • James T. Edmonds • Henry Gillaspie • Andrew J. Glassco • Colombus H. Harris • Virgil W. Hauser • John Holder • John Holyfield • William Hollyfield • Thomas R. Hodges • Bley R. Hudson • George W. Hudson • Shadrach Lasender • James McKinney • Jefferson Martin • William Marion

Civil War Continued
Henry H. Mickle • Jeremiah T. Minish • Thomas M. Morrison • Ephraim Nicholson • James O’Neal • Willlam Peal • Jessie Peel • James Reed • William D. Richardson • Thomas Scott • Andrew P. Shore • John Calvin Shore • William D. Simmons • James Snow • Thomas Snow • Allen Venable • Stanley Wall • Eli Whicker • Euffin Wilmoth • Daniel Wolf • Clinton Wood • Enoch P. Woodruff • William W. Woodruff

Company I, 2ist Regiment N. C Troops
Joseph Allen • George W Aubury • Francis M. Baldwin
Surry County Veterans Memorial (far left panel) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, December 30, 2024
3. Surry County Veterans Memorial (far left panel)
• James E. Baldwin • William C. Baldwin • C. W. Culler • D. A. Culler • John H. Culler • Wilhiam Henry Green • Rufus W. Hill • Willam Y. Jackson • David C. Johnson • William A. Love • James A. Lovell • Willjam E. Mckinney • William C. Perkins • Richard Poore • Thomas Poore • George W. Rawley • Squire Martin Roak • John Rottenburg • Leonard H. Scott • Edward F. Shelton • James Reilly Snoody • Enoch M. Stone • Gabriel Taylor • John C. Tuttle • Hiram I. Vernon • Azariah Wall • Newel Warden • John Whittington • George W. Williams

Company A 28th Regiment. N. C. Troops
Robert Adkins • Robards Atkins • W. T. Bennet • Andrew D, Bobbitt • John H. Brinkley • Barnabus Brown • Joel Bullen • Wilson Center • Andrew J. Chandler • John H. Childress • Jesse W. Cockerham • John Cockerham • William H. Cockerham • Drury H. Copeland • James M. Copeland • W. R. Cripman • J. M. Culler • S. M. Cunningham • Drewery K. Davis • William J. Davis • Harvey Denny • John Draughn • John Fowler • Solomon G. Gates • William Gentry • Calvin W. Glascoe • Thomas Golden • John Lee Gravely • William A. Grigg
Surry County Veterans Memorial (left center panels) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, December 30, 2024
4. Surry County Veterans Memorial (left center panels)
• John Harris • James F. Harrison • William Hawks • Lorenzo Hill • Henry Hodges • Bird Holyfield • Thomas Johnson • James R. Key • Martin V. Key • Charles H. Lanhialm • J.R. Lemmons • James J. Lendy • William A. Lowe • Jeremiah Marion • Nathan J. Marion • John Marsh • J. W. Mickey • William A, McGuffin • Jesse McKinney • Nathaniel G. Nixon • Thomas P. Norman • William C. Parker • Albert Parsons • Daniel Parsons • Thonas Peel • Henry G. Pool • James M. Puckett • Isaac Quinn • C. W. Rawley • John Isaac Reid • Verlin Reynolds • Joseph M. Riggan • George W. Riggs • Stephen Ring • William Ring • Pleasants Roberts • John C. Shaw • James C. Shore • Frederick Shouse • Robert J. Shreve • David P. Smith • Freeman Smith • Frost Snow • Shadrack Snow • Levi Southard • John Stanly • Solomon Stanly • Thomas A, Stokes • Charles Thompson • Samuel H. Turner • Elisha P. Walker • Andrea L. Walker • E. D. Watson • Thomas J. Whitaker • Howell E White • James P. White • Richard C. White • Swann White

(Right panels)
World War I
1914 – 1918

R. S. Atkins • B. Badgett • William Brim • W.
Surry County Veterans Memorial (right center panels) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, December 30, 2024
5. Surry County Veterans Memorial (right center panels)
H. Carter • J. B. Cockerham • E. L. Cook • William Crews • Claude Hill Edwards • William E. Hardy • J. H. Hodge • Claude E. Hooker • Early Holyfleld • James C. Isaacs • J. H. Jessup • D. Jester • Jesse B. Jones • Lacy J. Lawson • T. F. Lewellyn • Willie N. McKnight • L. G. Nixon • Isaac C. Norman • C. Patterson • D. H. Riggs • Robert H. Riggs • Vester Ring • R. A. Shackleford • Albert E. Smith • Charles R. Snow • Guy Thompson • Austin W. Tuley • William (Willie) A. Turpin • Clain B. Wall • Isaac E. Webb

World War I
1939 -1945

B. W. Amburn, Jr. • Lewis H. Armstrong • Clifton W. Atwood • Robert H. Barnes• Archie M. Blue • William D. Bolen • Erastus L. Bowman • Red Boyd • George D. Briggs • Charles C Brinkley • Burford C. Brown • Orville T. Brown • James W. Bunker • Howard E. Callaway • Paul J. Callaway • Ciate M. Cardwell • William E. Carter • William Franklin Carter • William S. Cassell • Jack L. Chaney • Emmitt R. Cockerham • Hardin L. Coe • James P. Coe • Calvin C Collins • Marvin E. Collins • Herbert Randall • Raymond C. Cook • Edgar V. Cooke • Ralph S. Crawford • James
Surry County Veterans Memorial (far right panels) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, December 30, 2024
6. Surry County Veterans Memorial (far right panels)
L. Cruise • Ed Dezern • Charles C. Dockery • Harvey G. Draughn • Nathan C. Draughn • Joe N. Draughn • Joseph William Draughon • William Gates Duncan • Wilford East • Isaac L. Edwards • George E. Eldridge • Grover Lee Eldridge • Ernest L. Emerson • Gilbert R. Felts • Elmo Fleming • Benjamin C. Folger • Frank Forrest • Edward Fowler • Joel E. Fowler • John Frank Foy • Earl M. Galyean • Ira S Gambill, Jr. • Kyle M. Gaylean • Herbert R. Gillespie • Dallas J. Goin • William H. Graham • Ernest G. Griffith • Bernard Gruble • Cleatus E. Hall • Russell Hampton • Elmer Hawks • Charles R. Haynes • Clarence Haynes • Clarence Martin Haynes • George Edward Hege • Arlies L. Hicks • Fred Hicks • Billy Edwards Hodgin • Wilbur R. Holcomb • Louis D. Holt • James H. Houck • James Hough • Garland H. Hunter • Lacy N. Hutchen • Julius Jackson • Randall M. Jackson • Earl C. James, Jr. • Osler P. Jarrell • Howard L. Jessup • Edwin Lionel Johnson • Romus W, Johnson • Vance O. Johnson • Carlos Warren Jones • Glenn F. Jones • Isaac B. Jones • Lonnie Jones • William J. Jones • Elmer W. Joyce • Talmadge Kimble
Blue Star Memorial Highway image. Click for full size.
Photographed by C. Ryan Dodson, October 18, 2025
7. Blue Star Memorial Highway
The Surry County Veterans Memorial is located along South Main Street which is also a designated Blue Star Memorial Highway. This Marker is adjacent to the Memorial.
• Fred W. King • Ralph E. King • Cecil L. Kirkman • Roy R. Lambert • John H. Lankford • David W. Lawrence • James E. Lawson • Daniel H. Ledford • Jack T. Lenly • Glenn D. Llewellyn

World War II Continued
Paul H. Luffman • Samuel Luffman • Ray J. Marion • Thomas Garner Marsh • Charles Martin • Marvin H. Martin • David H Massey • Paul Miller • Lannie Tolbert Mills, Jr. • Russel B. Minish • James M. Money • William H. Monesy • Willie H. Moone • Johns Stanford Moore • Harry C. Moyles • Jesse G. McMillian • Glen F. New • Henry C. Niston • Robert M. Ogburn, Jr. • Jonathan M. Parker • Wade P. Parker • Richard I. Pell • Frank E. Phillips • Frank E. Phillips, Jr. • Aubrey O. Pickford • James A. Poindexter • James C. Powers • Dixie H. Ramey • Robert J. Reynolds • James E. Robinson • Richard A. Robinson • Dayton C. Royall • James W. Rule • Herman Graham Sale • Sydney Samet • Thomas H. Sams • John C. Sexton • Grady Shelton • James C. Shelton Jr. • Franklin R. Simmons • Lloyd E. Slate • Homer W. Smith • Henry R. Southard • William J. Sparks • James Spencer • James A. Stanley • Gilbert
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H. Stevens • Basil C. Stewart • Basil S Stewart • Wayford R. Stewart • Billy G. Stone • James A. Stone • Charles Sykes, Jr. • Harvey A. Sykes • Thomas B. Tate • David E. Tesh • Samuel Thomas • Thomas E. Tickle • Glenn M. Tilley • Ralph G. Tilley • Reid E. Tilley • Wade M. Vernon • Jesse H. Waddell • Frank Erwin Walker, Jr. • Farris L. White • Sanford White • Brady M. Wood • Emmet L. Wood • Wilburn Woodruff • Dale D. Wright • John Henry Young • Charles William Wagoner

Korean War
1950-1953

Charles E Brintle • William C. East • Vernard M. Golding • Jack W. Gravely • Samuel C. Hamlin • Verpo L. Hawk • William J. Lovill • Merlin E. Marshall • Charles L. Slaydon • Grayson S. Vaughn • Wilson E. Wood

Vietnam War
1964-1975

Robert Cummings • Mikle E Dixon

Vietnam War Continued
Donald E. Fletcher • Harlan K. Gammons • Jerry B. Golding • Dale A. Gunnell • Clayburn M. Hatcher • Gary D. Hicks • James R. Jones • Roger Lee Joyce • Curtis J. Manring • Gerold L. Mounce • Phillip K. Ross • Mont S. Smoot • James F. Turney

Operation Enduring Freedom Era
David W. Snow • Anton Hiett • Adam Lee Marion • Leevi Khole Barnard
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, US CivilWar, VietnamWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 36° 29.921′ N, 80° 36.414′ W. Memorial is in Mount Airy, North Carolina, in Surry County. It is at the intersection of Rockford Street and South Main Street, on the left when traveling west on Rockford Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 105 Rockford Street, Mount Airy NC 27030, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in North Carolina’s Piedmont. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, in Appalachia, and specifically in Southern Appalachia. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, 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 walking distance of this marker: Historic Earle Theater (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Easter Brothers (about 300 feet away); Large Granite Millstone (about 500 feet away); Stoneman’s Raid (about 600 feet away); The J. C. Hollingsworth House (about 600 feet away); The Andy Griffith Show (about 600 feet away); The Susan Pendleton Ashby Memory Wall (about 700 feet away); First Presbyterian Church of Mount Airy (about 700 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Mount Airy.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on November 18, 2025. It was originally submitted on January 12, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 499 times since then and 112 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on January 12, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina.   3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on January 13, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina.   7. submitted on November 2, 2025, by C. Ryan Dodson of Danville, Virginia. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
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