Goldsboro in Wayne County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

1. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Marker

Inscription.

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map. . No North Carolina city, no town, no rural section, escaped. , These boys, the dead and living wounded, are the real heroes of this war. These are the men to whom our state and every part thereof should never fail to pay tribute., Brigadier General Kenneth C. Royall , Original trustee of the Wayne County Memorial Association , Attorney whose office was about 100 feet west of this site , First Secretary of the Army 1947-1949 , Last U.S. Secretary of War , Wayne County circa 1925 , Wayne County Memorial Community Building , Dedicated on this site June 25, 1925 , Grantham , James L. Blackman world war two . Earl Chestnutt world war two . Thurston D. Fogleman world war two . Joseph M. Grantham III Vietnam . Harvey B. Hood world war one . Roy W. Jones world war two . Raymond J. Langston world war two . Melville W. Odom world war two . Henry E. Weeks world war two . R. H. Westbrook world war one , Mt. Olive , Emmette Ballree Vietnam . George W. Barber world war two . Benjamin F. Bell world war two . Norman E. Best world war two . Glennie M. Brock world war two . Carl B. Clinton world war one . Roland S. Cox world war one . Lawton Crumpler Jr. world war two . Woodard W. Crumpler world war two . Joseph A. Farah world war two . Adrian H. Grantham world war one . Phillip D. Hardy Vietnam . Cleon R. Jones world war one . Melvin B. Jones world war two . Wilbert E. Jones Vietnam . Roscoe Kelly world war two . Henry H. Lee world war two . James Merritt Korean . Herbert Pearsall Jr. Vietnam . Phillip W. Pigford Vietnam . Charlie E. Pike world war two . James A. Powell world war two . Royal Puckett world war two . Glanton E. Reaves world war two . John R. Reaves world war two . Elam Summerlin world war one . James G. Summerlin world war one . James L. Taylor world war two . James R. Thompson Korean . James R. Troutman world war two, Indian Springs TWP , Albert J. Adams world war two . Fred L. Casey world war one . Sears Herring world war one . Ray Hill world war two . Charles M. Howell world war two . Charles M. Price world war two . Forrest L. Price Korean . Jesse J. Ruffin world war one . Henry A. Taylor world war two . Ira Wade world war two . Major Williams world war one, Township Undetermined , Henry W. Allen Jr. world war two . William A. Barwick world war two . Jerry H. Beaman world war two . James H. Blackman world war two . Levi C. Branson world war one . Ben Brock world war two . James L. Byrd world war two . Raeford L. Campbell world war two . Daniel J. Carter Korean . Clarence M. Edwards world war two . Albert L. Ellington world war two . Mack Elliott world war one . Richard Elmore world war two . Ray E. Eubanks MOH world war two . Carl E. Franklin world war two . James I. Fulford world war one . May S. Haggins world war two . George R. Hardesty world war one . Joseph N. Hargrove Vietnam . James Hill world war one . Wilbert O. Hodge world war two . John Hollingsworth world war two . Horace Horton world war two . James L. Howell world war two . Lewis Jernigan world war two . Douglas T. Johnson world war two . Jack Jones world war two . Willie Lane world war two . Hugh d. Mashburn world war two . Wilbert C. Massey Jr. world war two . James P. McLamb world war two . Don E. Pate world war two . William J. Pierce world war two . Donald N. Pope world war two . George P. Power Vietnam . Joe Renfrow world war two . Harold H. Smothers world war two . Kermit Stallings world war two . Clyde J. Stanback Korean . Herbert A. Sutton world war two . Robert L Taylor world war two . Nathaniel K. Thornton world war one . Johnnie J. Turnage world war two . William Walston world war one . Charles Warren world war two . Cecil H. Wiggs world war two . George H. Wilkins Vietnam . Robert E. Williams world war two . William C. Wilson Jr. world war two . Joseph D. Winchester world war two . Donza Wood world war two . Shade Wooten world war one , Brogden TWP , Bruce Anderson world war two . Raymond R. Anderson world war two . William H. Bell world war two . Archie B. Carter world war two . Carl C. Casey world war two . James R. Coates Vietnam . Gene J. Elzas world war two . Stephe. P. Faircloth world war two . George E. Grantham world war two . Ben King world war two . Ezra A. Moore world war two . James A. Mozingo world war two . William O. Mozingo world war two . Frank G. Peele world war two . Leon Price world war two . King D. Simmons world war one . Foster B. Stevens world war one . Daniel C. Sutton world war two . Edd L. Sutton world war two . Danzie Winn world war one . Bernice R. Wynn world war two , New Hope TWP , William L. Britt world war two . Linwood R. Foombs world war two . Marion L. Daniels world war one . Edgar F. Davis Vietnam . William W. Hail Vietnam . Robert H. Irwin Vietnam . James L. Kornegay Korean . Marquis I. McCarty world war two . James L. Ratliff Vietnam . Willie Simmons world war one . Williams C. Sutton Vietnam . Paul G. Underwood Vietnam . Richard W. Watson Vietnam , Goldsboro TWP , Robert E. Abel world war two . Can Allen Korean . James F. Arrington Korean . Jesse J. Baker world war one . Cleveland C. Balkcum world war two . Charlie C. Benton Vietnam . Robert O. Benton world war two . Bruce L. Blevins world war one . Murray L. Borden Jr. Vietnam . Paul L. Borden Jr. world war two . Lee R. Brogden world war two . Irvin Bryant world war two . Daniel Bullock Vietnam . Nathaniel Cox Jr. Vietnam . Edward C. Daly world war two . Jake Davis world war two . James V. Denning Korean . James P. DeVaney Vietnam . Nathan M. Dickey world war two . Gaston L. Dortch world war one . James Edmundson world war two . Wayne R. Edwards world war two . William H. Ellis world war two . Marvin L. Faircloth world war two . Lewis H. Faulk world war two . Reuben R. Floyd world war two . Alleyne Foster world war two . Ralph Giddens world war two . Robert A. Govan Vietnam . Robert Greenfield world war two . Moses Hadley world war one . Clifton A. Ham world war two . Herbert L. Handley world war one . Faison Harris world war one . Thomas P. Harrison world war two . Robert R. Hatch world war two . David R. Hill world war two . Liston L. Hines world war two . Sidney W. Hinson world war one . James H. Hogans world war one . Roland W. Horton Jr. world war two . Casco D. Howell Vietnam . Ernest C. Howell world war two . Samuel G. Hummell world war one . Harry Hundley world war two . Alton Harmon world war two . Dan L. Jenkins Vietnam . Charles R. Johnson Korean . J. C. Jones world war two . Stokely J. Jones Vietnam . Charles C. Keller world war two . Charlie S. Killette world war two . John H. King Korean . John W. Lamm Korean . Bobby R. Lane Vietnam . Charles C. Lassiter world war two . Elwood Lewis Korean . James R. Mashburn world war two . Carl O. Martin world war two . Tyson H. Mewborn world war two . Thomas Mitchell world war two . Joseph Nassif world war two . Earnest Newsome world war two . James T. Parker world war two . William F. Parker world war two . Tryphon. D. Peacock world war two . Boddie Perry world war two . Roscoe Quinn world war two . Charles Raynor world war one . Richard V. Riggs Vietnam . Bryant Roberts world war two . Willie Rogers world war two . Mortimer Roscower world war one . John Sauls world war two . Leonard O. Savage world war two . Neal A. Scott world war two . Charlie D. Shaver world war one . Claude Smith Jr. Korean . Frank Smith Vietnam . Ira S. Smith world war two . Levert L. Smith Jr. world war two . Emmett Spicer world war two . Alvin T. Strickland world war two . Richard Summerlin world war two . Ben I. Taylor world war one . Jasper Thomason world war one . Jesse D. Thompson world war two . Lucian Thompson world war two . Edmund R. Toler Vietnam . Arthur Turner world war one . Kenneth E. Vanhoy Vietnam . Albert Vick Jr. Vietnam . Gordon Whitaker Jr. world war two . Charles E. Wiegand world war two . Grover C. Wiggins world war one . Guy S. Winstead world war one . George B. Womble Jr. world war two . Ray E. York world war two , Saulston TWP , James A. Thomas world war two, Stoney Creek TWP , John Creech world war one . Wayne G. Crumpler world war two . George F. Howell world war two . Rayford S. Lynch world war two . Charles M. Scott world war two , Buck Swamp TWP , Rudolph Sampson Korean . Leslie D. Williams Afghanistan , Pikeville TWP , Joseph P. Bass world war one . Ralph T. Bell world war two . J. R. Best world war two . Eulas L. Collins world war one . I. D. Dickerson world war two . William J. Gardner world war one . Samuel Hadley world war one . Henry E. Herring world war two . William. L. Howell Korean . I. Lindley Littleton Korean . Hill W. McKeel Vietnam, Nahunta TWP , Andrew Best world war one . James H. Blalock world war one . Willie L. Blaylock world war one . Harold Crawford world war two . William D. Crawford Vietnam . Harvey D. Davis world war one . Ralph Howell Vietnam . Wayne L. Johnson world war two . Ezra A. Mayo world war one . Gary L. McDonald world war two . Rudolph S. Parrish Vietnam . Dudley A. Powell Jr. world war two . John C. Rose Jr. world war two . Johnnie G. Rowe world war two . Herman P. Shackleford world war one . Earl C. Smith world war two . Isaac Stevens world war one . Mayo Ward Korean , Great Swamp TWP , Donald E. Daniels Vietnam . Harvey J. Langston world war two . Leslie J. Short world war one . Benjamin W. Taylor world war two

No North Carolina city, no town, no rural section, escaped.

These boys, the dead and living wounded, are the real heroes of this war. These are the men to whom our state and every part thereof should never fail to pay tribute.

Brigadier General Kenneth C. Royall
Original trustee of the Wayne County Memorial Association
Attorney whose office was about 100 feet west of this site
First Secretary of the Army 1947-1949
Last U.S. Secretary of War

Wayne County circa 1925
Wayne County Memorial Community Building
Dedicated on this site June 25, 1925

Grantham
James L. Blackman WWII • Earl Chestnutt WWII • Thurston D. Fogleman WWII • Joseph M. Grantham III Vietnam • Harvey B. Hood WWI • Roy W. Jones WWII • Raymond J.

Paid Advertisement

Click or scan to see
this page online

Langston WWII • Melville W. Odom WWII • Henry E. Weeks WWII • R. H. Westbrook WWI

Mt. Olive
Emmette Ballree Vietnam • George W. Barber WWII • Benjamin F. Bell WWII • Norman E. Best WWII • Glennie M. Brock WWII • Carl B. Clinton WWI • Roland S. Cox WWI • Lawton Crumpler Jr. WWII • Woodard W. Crumpler WWII • Joseph A. Farah WWII • Adrian H. Grantham WWI • Phillip D. Hardy Vietnam • Cleon R. Jones WWI • Melvin B. Jones WWII • Wilbert E. Jones Vietnam • Roscoe Kelly WWII • Henry H. Lee WWII • James Merritt Korean • Herbert Pearsall Jr. Vietnam • Phillip W. Pigford Vietnam • Charlie E. Pike WWII • James A. Powell WWII • Royal Puckett WWII • Glanton E. Reaves WWII • John R. Reaves WWII • Elam Summerlin WWI • James G. Summerlin WWI • James L. Taylor WWII • James R. Thompson Korean • James R. Troutman WWII

Indian
Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

2. 1925 Wayne County map
Springs TWP
Albert J. Adams WWII • Fred L. Casey WWI • Sears Herring WWI • Ray Hill WWII • Charles M. Howell WWII • Charles M. Price WWII • Forrest L. Price Korean • Jesse J. Ruffin WWI • Henry A. Taylor WWII • Ira Wade WWII • Major Williams WWI

Township Undetermined
Henry W. Allen Jr. WWII • William A. Barwick WWII • Jerry H. Beaman WWII • James H. Blackman WWII • Levi C. Branson WWI • Ben Brock WWII • James L. Byrd WWII • Raeford L. Campbell WWII • Daniel J. Carter Korean • Clarence M. Edwards WWII • Albert L. Ellington WWII • Mack Elliott WWI • Richard Elmore WWII • Ray E. Eubanks MOH WWII • Carl E. Franklin WWII • James I. Fulford WWI • May S. Haggins WWII • George R. Hardesty WWI • Joseph N. Hargrove Vietnam • James Hill WWI • Wilbert O. Hodge WWII • John Hollingsworth WWII • Horace Horton WWII

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

3. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map Marker

• James L. Howell WWII • Lewis Jernigan WWII • Douglas T. Johnson WWII • Jack Jones WWII • Willie Lane WWII • Hugh d. Mashburn WWII • Wilbert C. Massey Jr. WWII • James P. McLamb WWII • Don E. Pate WWII • William J. Pierce WWII • Donald N. Pope WWII • George P. Power Vietnam • Joe Renfrow WWII • Harold H. Smothers WWII • Kermit Stallings WWII • Clyde J. Stanback Korean • Herbert A. Sutton WWII • Robert L Taylor WWII • Nathaniel K. Thornton WWI • Johnnie J. Turnage WWII • William Walston WWI • Charles Warren WWII • Cecil H. Wiggs WWII • George H. Wilkins Vietnam • Robert E. Williams WWII • William C. Wilson Jr. WWII • Joseph D. Winchester WWII • Donza Wood WWII • Shade Wooten WWI

Brogden TWP
Bruce Anderson WWII • Raymond R. Anderson WWII • William H. Bell WWII • Archie B. Carter WWII • Carl C. Casey WWII • James

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Grantham image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

4. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Grantham

R. Coates Vietnam • Gene J. Elzas WWII • Stephe. P. Faircloth WWII • George E. Grantham WWII • Ben King WWII • Ezra A. Moore WWII • James A. Mozingo WWII • William O. Mozingo WWII • Frank G. Peele WWII • Leon Price WWII • King D. Simmons WWI • Foster B. Stevens WWI • Daniel C. Sutton WWII • Edd L. Sutton WWII • Danzie Winn WWI • Bernice R. Wynn WWII

New Hope TWP
William L. Britt WWII • Linwood R. Foombs WWII • Marion L. Daniels WWI • Edgar F. Davis Vietnam • William W. Hail Vietnam • Robert H. Irwin Vietnam • James L. Kornegay Korean • Marquis I. McCarty WWII • James L. Ratliff Vietnam • Willie Simmons WWI • Williams C. Sutton Vietnam • Paul G. Underwood Vietnam • Richard W. Watson Vietnam

Goldsboro TWP
Robert E. Abel WWII • Can Allen Korean • James F. Arrington Korean • Jesse J. Baker

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Mt. Olive image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

5. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Mt. Olive

WWI • Cleveland C. Balkcum WWII • Charlie C. Benton Vietnam • Robert O. Benton WWII • Bruce L. Blevins WWI • Murray L. Borden Jr. Vietnam • Paul L. Borden Jr. WWII • Lee R. Brogden WWII • Irvin Bryant WWII • Daniel Bullock Vietnam • Nathaniel Cox Jr. Vietnam • Edward C. Daly WWII • Jake Davis WWII • James V. Denning Korean • James P. DeVaney Vietnam • Nathan M. Dickey WWII • Gaston L. Dortch WWI • James Edmundson WWII • Wayne R. Edwards WWII • William H. Ellis WWII • Marvin L. Faircloth WWII • Lewis H. Faulk WWII • Reuben R. Floyd WWII • Alleyne Foster WWII • Ralph Giddens WWII • Robert A. Govan Vietnam • Robert Greenfield WWII • Moses Hadley WWI • Clifton A. Ham WWII • Herbert L. Handley WWI • Faison Harris WWI • Thomas P. Harrison WWII • Robert R. Hatch WWII • David R. Hill WWII • Liston L. Hines WWII • Sidney W. Hinson WWI • James

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Indian Springs image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

6. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Indian Springs

H. Hogans WWI • Roland W. Horton Jr. WWII • Casco D. Howell Vietnam • Ernest C. Howell WWII • Samuel G. Hummell WWI • Harry Hundley WWII • Alton Harmon WWII • Dan L. Jenkins Vietnam • Charles R. Johnson Korean • J. C. Jones WWII • Stokely J. Jones Vietnam • Charles C. Keller WWII • Charlie S. Killette WWII • John H. King Korean • John W. Lamm Korean • Bobby R. Lane Vietnam • Charles C. Lassiter WWII • Elwood Lewis Korean • James R. Mashburn WWII • Carl O. Martin WWII • Tyson H. Mewborn WWII • Thomas Mitchell WWII • Joseph Nassif WWII • Earnest Newsome WWII • James T. Parker WWII • William F. Parker WWII • Tryphon. D. Peacock WWII • Boddie Perry WWII • Roscoe Quinn WWII • Charles Raynor WWI • Richard V. Riggs Vietnam • Bryant Roberts WWII • Willie Rogers WWII • Mortimer Roscower WWI • John Sauls WWII • Leonard O. Savage WWII • Neal

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Township Undetermined image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

7. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Township Undetermined

A. Scott WWII • Charlie D. Shaver WWI • Claude Smith Jr. Korean • Frank Smith Vietnam • Ira S. Smith WWII • Levert L. Smith Jr. WWII • Emmett Spicer WWII • Alvin T. Strickland WWII • Richard Summerlin WWII • Ben I. Taylor WWI • Jasper Thomason WWI • Jesse D. Thompson WWII • Lucian Thompson WWII • Edmund R. Toler Vietnam • Arthur Turner WWI • Kenneth E. Vanhoy Vietnam • Albert Vick Jr. Vietnam • Gordon Whitaker Jr. WWII • Charles E. Wiegand WWII • Grover C. Wiggins WWI • Guy S. Winstead WWI • George B. Womble Jr. WWII • Ray E. York WWII

Saulston TWP
James A. Thomas WWII

Stoney Creek TWP
John Creech WWI • Wayne G. Crumpler WWII • George F. Howell WWII • Rayford S. Lynch WWII • Charles M. Scott WWII

Buck Swamp TWP
Rudolph Sampson Korean • Leslie D. Williams Afghanistan

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Brogdon TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

8. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Brogdon TWP

Pikeville TWP
Joseph P. Bass WWI • Ralph T. Bell WWII • J. R. Best WWII • Eulas L. Collins WWI • I. D. Dickerson WWII • William J. Gardner WWI • Samuel Hadley WWI • Henry E. Herring WWII • William. L. Howell Korean • I. Lindley Littleton Korean • Hill W. McKeel Vietnam

Nahunta TWP
Andrew Best WWI • James H. Blalock WWI • Willie L. Blaylock WWI • Harold Crawford WWII • William D. Crawford Vietnam • Harvey D. Davis WWI • Ralph Howell Vietnam • Wayne L. Johnson WWII • Ezra A. Mayo WWI • Gary L. McDonald WWII • Rudolph S. Parrish Vietnam • Dudley A. Powell Jr. WWII • John C. Rose Jr. WWII • Johnnie G. Rowe WWII • Herman P. Shackleford WWI • Earl C. Smith WWII • Isaac Stevens WWI • Mayo Ward Korean

Great Swamp TWP
Donald E. Daniels Vietnam • Harvey J. Langston WWII • Leslie

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - New Hope TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

9. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - New Hope TWP

J. Short WWI • Benjamin W. Taylor WWII

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Military. A significant historical date for this entry is June 25, 1925.

Location. 35° 22.951′ N, 77° 59.632′ W. Marker is in Goldsboro, North Carolina, in Wayne County. It is at the intersection of East Walnut Street and North William Street when traveling west on East Walnut Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 241 E Walnut St, Goldsboro NC 27530, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in North Carolina’s Coastal Plain and in the Piedmont.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

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: Wayne County Veterans Memorial (here, next to this marker); Wayne County Vietnam War Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Seymour Johnson AFB History / 4th Fighter Wing History Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Wayne County Purple Heart (a few steps from this

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Goldsboro TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

10. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Goldsboro TWP

marker); North Carolina Press Association (within shouting distance of this marker); John Lawson (within shouting distance of this marker); Company E, 119th Infantry, Goldsboro Rifles World War I Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); First Pentecostal Holiness Church Congregation (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Goldsboro.

More about this marker. The memorial is a 1925 Wayne County map with the names of those memorialized placed at their home townships within the county. The map is to the north of the park pavilion

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Saulston TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

11. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Saulston TWP

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Stoney Creek TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

12. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Stoney Creek TWP

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Buck Swamp TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

13. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Buck Swamp TWP

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Pikeville TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

14. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Pikeville TWP

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Nahunta TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

15. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Nahunta TWP

Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Great Swamp TWP image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

16. Wayne County Veterans Memorial Map - Great Swamp TWP

Center Pavilion at Veterans Memorial Park. Wayne Co. Memorial map is to the right (north) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, February 4, 2025

17. Center Pavilion at Veterans Memorial Park. Wayne Co. Memorial map is to the right (north)

Credits. This page was last revised on February 26, 2025. It was originally submitted on February 24, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 239 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on February 24, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. submitted on February 25, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • J. J. Prats was the editor who published this page.