Near Waycross in Ware County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)

World War Memorial

Ware County World War 1917-1918 Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Brad Cox, September 4, 2025

1. Ware County World War 1917-1918 Marker

Inscription. Ware County
World War
1917 • 1918

"It is a beautiful and fitting thing to die for ones country."

Honor Roll
James Jules Beaton • Alvin C. Bozeman • James A. Brown • N. Eugene Campbell • A. Fred Capps • Claude D. Chambless • Norman E. Daniels • Early Davis • Dellie Gilliard • Lewis Gillis • J. C. Barber • Franklin L. Henderson • Lewis H. Hopkins • Aaron Holt • Lonnie James • Аrchie B. Liles • L. D. Moody • Clyde Mott • James A. Pierce • Milton Worth Porter • Leon Ray • Gerald Yarborough • William Rogers • Wadley E. Sharpe • Ralph Smith • John Spaulding • Jefferson D. Storm • Frank Tuten • Andrew Thrift • Peter Archie Thrift • Alfred Wiley Turner • Dewey D. White • Charles S. Walden

Colored
Calvin Baldwin • Norman J. Thomas • Fell Hall • Daniel Monroe • Sam Miller • Buster Sutton • Isaac P. Starling • Thomas H. Larkins • Arthur Caraway

Erected by American Legion.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Bridges & Viaducts • War, World I.

Location. 31° 14.315′ N,

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82° 19.368′ W. Memorial is near Waycross, Georgia, in Ware County. It is on Plant Avenue (U.S. 84) 0.9 miles east of Morningside Drive, on the right when traveling east. Located on the bridge over the Satilla River. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Waycross GA 31501, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is on the Coastal Plain. It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

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 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Okefenokee Swamp (approx. 2.3 miles away); Nancy Hart Highway (approx. 2½ miles away); Ware Court House (approx. 2½ miles away); Senator Nicholas Ware (approx. 2½ miles away); The Wildes Massacre (approx. 2.7 miles away); Methodism Came To Waycross

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(approx. 2.8 miles away); Ware County Georgia World War I Memorial (approx. 2.9 miles away); Co. F 121st Infantry (approx. 2.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Waycross.

Credits. This page was last revised on November 10, 2025. It was originally submitted on September 7, 2025. This page has been viewed 115 times since then and 34 times this year. Last updated on November 8, 2025. Photo 1. submitted on September 7, 2025, by Brad Cox of Waycross, Georgia. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.