Kenansville in Duplin County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
World War II Veterans Memorial
Dedicated to the honored memory of Duplin County's sons who gave their lives in World War II
Jessie Basden Kenansville Pvt. U.S. Army 21 Aug 1910-02 July 1932 Ralph Moten Turner Albertson Township S2/C. U.S. Navy 23 Jan 1923-09 Aug 1942 William Samuel Kornegay Beulaville ST3. U.S.Navy 24 Apr 1921-15 Sept 1942 Talmadge Alonzia Bunch Rose Hill PFC. U.S. Marines Corps 14 Feb 1921-05 Oct 1942 Roy Lanier Cedar Fork Gun. U.S. Navy 15 Mar 1908-13 Nov 1942 Marcus Waitis Sheppard Albertson Township TM2. U.S. Navy 08 Jan 1920-05 Mar 1942 Hermon Thurman McCalop Warsaw STMI. U.S. Navy 29 Apr 1922-15 Mar 1943 David Stephen Williams Wallace W.O. N.C. Civil Air Patrol 19 Mar 1914-27 June 1943 Charles Henry Jackson Scotts Store S2/C. U.S. Navy 11 Mar 1925-10 July 1043 Paul Ashton Britt, Jr. Warsaw PFC. U.S. Army Air Forces 02 Mar 1923-03 Aug 1943 Maceo Blount Bowden PFC U.S. Army 12 Feb 1922-02 Sept 1943 Joseph Benjamin Yarborough Chinquapin AMM3. U.S. Navy 21 Apr 1926-20 Sept 1943 Vernie Odell Fountain Chinquapin PFC. U.S. Army 11-Feb 1915-13 Oct 1943 Ned Caesar Kenion Warsaw T/5. U.S. Army Air Forces 01 Mar 1916-12 Nov 1943 Theodore Dunn Southerland Wallace EM3. U.S. Navy 08 Apr 1924-24 Nov 1943 Henry Douglas MacMillan, Jr. Teachey S/Sgt. U.S. Army Air Forces 10 Jan 1911-27 Dec 1943 Irwin Harris Carr Wallace 2Lt. U.S. Army Air Forces 24 Apr 1921-28 Dec 1943 James Dempsey Simmons Albertson Township 1Lt. U.S. Army 14 Oct 1919-16 Feb 1944 Don Lon Mercer Cabin PFC. U.S. Marine Corps 23 Nov 1922-18 Feb 1944 Ned Potter Magnolia T/Sgt. U.S. Army Air Forces 03 Deb 1917-29 Feb 1944 Leroy James Teachey, Jr. Rose Hill 2Lt U.S. Army Air Forces 05 Mar 1918-02 Mar 1944 Don Everett Pate Scotts Store AMMI. U.S. Navy 23 Aug 1922-09 Mar 1944 Norwood Harris Dobson Rose Hill Lt. (JG). U.S. Navy 20 Feb 1917-08 May 1944 Samuel Rufus Bowden, III Warsaw PFC. U.S. Army. 28 Dec 1923-23 May 1944 J.P. Newson Albertson Township Pvt. U.S. Army 07 Oct 1921-05 June 1944 Alton Roy English Wallace Pvt. U.S. Army 14-Dec 1919- 06 June 1944 Claude Davis Orrell, Jr. Warsaw S/Sgt. U.S. Army Air Forces 10 Jan 1923-6 June 1944 Paul Southerland Newton, Jr. Rose Hill PHMI. U.S. Navy 27 Feb 1917-17 June 1944 George Boney King, Jr. Magnolia T/4 U.S. Army 20 Aug 1917-18 June 1944 Graham Best Cavanaugh Wallace Pvt. U.S. Army 16 May-21 June 1944 Cecil Hertford Wiggs Warsaw ARM 3. U.S. Navy 17 June 1924-22 June 1944 Joseph Columbus Carr Magnolia 1/Sgt. U.S. Army 16 Mar 1920-05 July 1944 Arnold Jackson Limestone Township Pvt. U.S. Army 14 Feb 1922-06 July 1944 Richard Franklin Jordan Faison Pvt. U.S. Army 22 Oct 1921-14 July 1944 Larry Thomas Bostic Kenansville AMM3. U.S. Navy 06 Mar 1918-15 July 1944 Willard Ellsworth Smith Smith Township T/Sgt. U.S. Army 09 Sept 1917-18 July 1944 Hallie Farris Williams Cedar Fork 1Lt. U.S. Army 26 Feb 1922-03 Aug 1944 Maleon Dorsette Stanford Warsaw PFC. U.S. Army 14 Jan 1916-06 Aug 1944 Luke Wright Boney, Jr. Wallace 1Lt. U.S. Army 07 Nov 1917-06 Aug 1944 John Thomas Avent Faison Pvt. U.S. Army 14 Aug 1918-10 Aug 1944 Francis Lee Hunt Teachey 1Lt. U.S. Army Air Forces 01 Jan 1919-12 Aug 1944 Edward Donald Murphy, Jr. Magnolia Col. U.S. Army 01 Mar 1918-12 Aug 1944 Pender Surcy Chinquapin PFC. U.S. Army 15 Feb 1915-12 Aug 1944 Elton Council Bryan Beulaville Pvt. U.S. Army 16 Feb 1923-02 Sept 1944 J.D. Albertson Hallsville PFC U.S. Army 04 Oct 1920-06 Sept 1944 Hubert James Turner Beulaville PFC. U.S. Army 30 May 1921-18 Sept 1944 Clifton Ferris Edgerton Faison Sgt. U.S. Army 11 June 1920-19 Sept 1944
1941-1945
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.
Charlie Edgar Pike. Jr. Wolfscrape Township PFC. U.S. Marine Corps 29 Nov 1925 - 25 Sept 1944 Charles Leonard Peirce Warsaw Lt. Col. U.S. Army Air
Forces 05 Apr 1917-30 Sept 1944
William Hilton Rogers Calypso PFC U.S. Marine Corps 05 July 1922-02 0ct 1944
Osborne Casteen Turner Beulaville PFC. U.S. Army 06 May 1920 - 02 0ct 1944
Earl Franklin Horde Cypress Creek Township Lt (JG) U.S. Navy 15 June 1922-15 0ct 1944
Robert Wallace Buck Warsaw 1Lt. U.S. Army 22 Sept 1916-20 0ct 1944
Ottis Lee Sauage Rockfish Township PFC. U.S. Army Air Forces 20 0ct 1921-24 0ct 1944
Chancey Evis Boney Warsaw PFC. U S Army 06 0ct 1921-28 0ct 1944
Glennie Marion Brock Wolfscrape Township Pvt. U.S. Army 21 May 1924-10 Nov 1944
Ben Claude Brock Warsaw Pvt. U.S. Army 05 Jan 1919-26 Nov 1944
Corris Hampton Smith Smith Township Sgt. U.S. Army 09 Jan 1926-26 Nov 1944
William Adrian Davis Calypso Pvt. U.S. Army 27 Nov 1912-30 Nov 1944
Burtis James Taylor Smith Township S/Sgt. U.S. Army 27 May 1922-07 Dec 1944
Marvin Whaley Beulaville S/Sgt. U.S. Army. 19 Nov 1921-14 Dec 1944
Royal Henderson Puckett Wolfscrape Township PFC. U.S. Army 12 Dec 1923-17 Dec 1944
Roscoe Kelly Wolfscrape Township T/Sgt. U.S. Army 04 July 1918-26 Dec 1944
Charles Abernathy Teachey Charity Pvt. U.S. Army 19 Apr 1925-28 Dec 1944
James Elmer Faison Magnolia PFC. U.S. Army 08 Nov 1920- 01 Jan 1945
Grover Lee Miller Hallsuille PFC. U.S. Army 13 Jan 1920-16 Jan 1945
Clifton Turner Smith Township Pvt. U.S. Army 15
Sept 1918-23 Jan 1945
James Lee Grady Warsaw PFC. U.S. Army 19 0ct 1921 -10 Feb 1945
Mike Gregory Thomas Beulaville Pvt. U.S. Army 11 0ct 1924-17 Feb I945
James Earl Ransom Warsaw PFC. U.S. Army 09 Feb 1922-24 Feb 1945
John Wesley Shaffer, Jr. Kenansville Pvt. U.S. Army 19 May 1926-04 Mar 1945
(Center Panel)
Arthur Joseph Sheppard Albertson Township PFC. U.S. Army 26 Nov 1923-06 Mar 1945 Robert E. Williams Magnolia Pvt. U.S. Army 06 Sept 1921-09 Mar 1945 Ira Berry Teachey Jr. Wallace 2Lt. U.S. Army Air Forces 24 Apr 1921-15 Mar 1945 Roy Lee Cottle Deep Bottom Pvt. U.S. Army 30 Sept 1923-20 Mar 1945 James Mason, Brown, Jr. Kenansville S/Sgt. U.S. Army Air Forces 06. Nov 1921-24 Mar 1945 Jack Jones Wolfscrape Township PFC. U.S. Army 22 Sept 1925-02 Apr 1945 Charlie Thomas Parker Wallace PFC. U.S. Marine Corps 29 May 1925-02 Apr 1945 Roy Sherman Savage Magnolia S/Sgt. U.S. Army 12 July 1922-05 Apr 1945 Howard Horne Cypress Creek Township PFC. U.S. Army 05 Aug-1925-09 Apr 1945 William Glasgo Wallace Pvt U.S. Army 20 Oct 1918-12 Apr 1945 Philip Teachey Wallace T/4 U.S. Army 26 Feb 1919-18 Apr 1945 Willis Steele Wilson Warsaw PFC. U.S. Army 09 June 1917-26 Apr 1945 Kenneth Allen Blanton Rose Hill Pvt. U.S. Army 19-Jan 1925-29 Apr 1945 Edward Clifton Skinner. Jr. Wallace Pl. Sgt. U.S. Marine Corps O1 Mar 1913-10 May 1945 Harland Eugene Baker Rose Hill S2/C U.S. Navy 30 Mar 1924-09 June 1946 William Arthur Barwick Faison Pvt. U.S. Marine Corps 28 June 1926-18 June 1945
Voil Hill Chinquapin Pvt. U.S. Army 05 June 1920 -01 July 1945 John Wiley Murphy Rose Hill Pvt. U.S. Army 18 Dec 1924- 01 July 1945 Elmer Ward Dail Chinquapin 1/Sgt. U.S. Army 27 Sept 1913-14 Aug 1945 Lawson Groves Mathews Magnolia Capt. U.S. Army Air Forces 09 June 1918-16 Sept 1945 William Lloyd Swinson Rose Hill PFC. U.S. Army 23 July 1913-25 Sept 1945 Winford Clifton Brown Teachey MM2. U.S. Navy 30 Dec 1920-14 0ct 1945 Tyson Hardy Mewborn Albertson Township Lt. (JG) U.S. Nov 27 Nov 1923-31 Oct 1945 Dorch Edward Carlton Warsaw PFC. U.S.. Army 12 Feb 1926-09 Dec 1945 Doword Bostic Hallsville PFC. U.S. Army 05 Mar 1925-11 Dec 1945 Jeff Clayton Taylor Bowden PFC. U.S. Army. 16 Dec 1926-21 Feb 1946 Last Original Entry - 1946 Woodrow Weeks Faison PFC. U.S. Army 05 Nov 1916-25 July 1944 Van Jones Jr. Rose Hill Pvt, U.S. Army 06 June 1923-17 Nov 1944
Erected by Duplin County Historical Society and Ingram & Ingram Attorneys.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.
Location. 34° 57.741′ N, 77° 57.735′ W. Memorial is in Kenansville, North Carolina, in Duplin County. It is on South Main Street (North Carolina Route 11) east of Duplin Street, on the left when traveling east. The memorial is on the southeast ground of the Duplin County Courthouse. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 112 Duplin St, Kenansville NC 28349, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in North Carolina’s Coastal Plain. 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: Korean War Veterans Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Vietnam Veterans Memorial (a few steps from this marker); World War I Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Duplin County Veterans Monument (a few steps from this marker); Duplin County Court House (within shouting distance of this marker); Liberty Hall (approx. 0.2 miles away); Grove Church (approx. 0.4 miles away); Confederate States Armory (approx. 0.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Kenansville.
Credits. This page was last revised on May 11, 2025. It was originally submitted on April 15, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 302 times since then and 52 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on April 15, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. 3. submitted on April 16, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.


