Near Waycross in Ware County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)
World War Memorial
Photographed by Brad Cox, September 4, 2025
1. Ware County World War 1917-1918 Marker
World War
1917 1918
"It is a beautiful and fitting thing to die for ones country."
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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Regionally, this memorial is in Georgia’s 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 (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 107 times since then and 26 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.
