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Corinth Reformed Church Veterans

 
 
Corinth Reformed Church Veterans Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, March 9, 2025
1. Corinth Reformed Church Veterans Marker
Inscription.
To the glory of God and in honor of the members of Corinth Reformed Church who served their country

Veterans

WWI
Ray Kenneth Rowe • Albert Thomas Spurlock

WWII
Leroy Franklin Abernethy, Jr. • T. Harold Adams* • H. Mack Bailey • Philip Hubert Bracewell, Sr.* • Leroy L. Center* • Newman C. Cox, Jr. • Manley Kearns Fuller • Raymond K. Gantt, Sr.* • Ben M. Jarrett* • D. Lee Jessup* • Joe J. Marlowe • Ral H. McConnell* • William Earl Pierce • William Ray Schell • James E. Tate, Sr. • Gerald E. Wagner* • George Scott Watson, Jr.* • Marshall V. Yount*

Korean
Claude S. Abernethy, Jr.* • John Harris Bigelow • Cecil Bost, Jr. • William Franklin Bost • Mallie L. Clontz, Jr.* • Lewis Wayne Deal • Robert Curnell Deal • Robert Suddreth Ervin, Jr. • James E. Fisher* • Norris L. Hines* • William Gale Karslake* • George Donaldson Murphy, Sr.* • Larry Shuford Rowe • Wade Hampton Shuford, Jr.*

Vietnam
Philip Hubert Bracewell, Jr.* • Carlos A De La Garza • Charles Edgar Finger III* • Robert Walker Geitner, Jr. • Eugene Matthew Holland, Jr.* • James Philo Isenhower, Jr. • Joe Carl
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Rowe* • Abel Alexander Shuford, II* • Archie Whiting Shuford, Jr.* • Clark Guin Spurlock • James E. Tate, Jr. (Jay) • William Cecil Thompson, III* • John R. U'ren* • Festus Martin Whitener • Gary Lee Whitener
*Currently Members
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, VietnamWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 35° 45.314′ N, 81° 20.447′ W. Memorial is in Hickory, North Carolina, in Catawba County. It can be reached from 16th Avenue Northwest, on the right when traveling west. The marker is under a covered walkway between the sanctuary and the church's welcome center. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 2nd Street Northwest, Hickory NC 28601, 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
Corinth Reformed Church Veterans Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, March 9, 2025
2. Corinth Reformed Church Veterans Marker
Location is under a covered walkway over the exterior wall of the welcome center, across from the west side of the sanctuary
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 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Lieut. Orin M. Sigmon (here, next to this marker); Corinth Evangelical and Reformed Church World War Veterans (here, next to this marker); Nillah M. Edmisten House (approx. 1.1 miles away); Maple Grove (approx. 1.1 miles away); Edgar Lee Flowers House (approx. 1.2 miles away); Harris Apartments (approx. 1.2 miles away); Yount-Patton House (approx. 1.2 miles away); Connolly C. Gamble House (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hickory.
 
Walkway to several markers is under the right arch between the welcome center and sanctuary image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, March 9, 2025
3. Walkway to several markers is under the right arch between the welcome center and sanctuary
Full view of Corinth Evangelical and Reformed Church. Markers to the left of the sanctuary image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, March 9, 2025
4. Full view of Corinth Evangelical and Reformed Church. Markers to the left of the sanctuary
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on March 18, 2025. It was originally submitted on March 10, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 148 times since then and 25 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 10, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
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