Gassaway in Braxton County, West Virginia — The American South (Appalachia)

Veterans Memorial

Photographed by Craig Doda, August 2, 2026

1. Veterans Memorial Marker

Inscription.
Proud tribute is here paid to Gassaway community members who answered the call to the colors in World War II 1941 - 1945.

Joe Alderman • Harry Adkins • Don Ankrum • Jack Alderman • Leo Ankrum • Robert Ankrum • Vernice Joe Ankrum • Jim Arrasmith • Burlie Baker • Clifton Baker • George Baker • Jaunita Baker • Paul Baker • Donald Ballengee • Harper Ballengee • Charles Barnett • Nell Bartlett • John E. Beall • Lloyd D. Beane • Price Beane • Russell Beane • Robert Beatty • Aerold Lee Bennett • Joel Henry Render • John Render • Guy Taylor • James J. Duffield

Wallace Bennett • William Bennett • Eugene Bills • Ralph Bills • Alva Blake • Woodrow E Blake • Billy Boggs • Herold Lee Boggs • James Boggs • Kenneth Boggs • Kenneth J. Boggs • Lawrence E Boggs • Lloyd Boggs • Charley Bosley • Clinton Bosley • Gerold Bosley • Homer Carl Bosley • Leon Bosley • Otis Guy Bosley • Robert E. Bosley • Roy Adrian Bosley • Russell Bosley Jr. • Russell Bosley Sr. • Vinton Lee Bosley • A. L. "Pete" Brady • Everett Brady Jr. • Farrell S. Brady • Russell J. Brady • Brady, Victor E. • Byron Davis

Charles Bright • William B. Bright • William H. Bright

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• James Orville Brown • William A. Brown • Fred Burkhammer • Thomas M. Browning Jr • Burl O. Burrows • Park M. Butler • Burl O. Burrows • Park M. Butler • Robert Burns • W. Broaddus Butcher • Raymond Buzed • Ben H. Byrne • Claude Campbell Jr. • John W Cantrell • Overton L Cantrell • Robert W Cantrell • John H Carpenter • William J Carpenter • Albert Car • Charles Carr • Troy J Carr • C C Carson • Eugene Carter • Fredrick Carter • Edward Cayton • Herbert Cayton • Harold C Criner

Hollis Cayton • B. E. "Red" Chenoweth • Clifford Clem • Samuel Coates • Jack Cogar • Paul Cogar • Joe Conley • Alfred L. Corkhill • Charles Coulter • James Collins • Paul Cogar • Joe Conley • Alfred L. Corkhill • Charles Coulter • James Collins • Paul Crites • Thomas Crockett • Burton E. Cutlip • Charles A. Cutlip • Robert R Cutlif • Floyd Davis • Orville Davis • Paul Dorsey • James Drake • Paul Drake • Thirl Drake • Austin Duckworth • Carl Duckworth • Ernest G Duckworth • Everett A Dancy • Frederick W Duckworth • Richard Dickey • Thurman A Frame Jr

Harry Duckworth • James D. Duffield • Vaughn Duffield • Verlin Duffield • Virginia P. Duffield • Robert W. Ellis

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Photographed by Craig Doda, August 2, 2026

2. Veterans Memorial

• James Enoch • Lesley Eubank • Russell Eubank • Pete Evans • Eugene Felix • Charlin Felix • Carl Fisher • Herman Fisher • Perry Flinn • Frank Foster • Charles J. Frame • James R. Frame • Stewart Frame • Russell Friend • William Friend • Clyde Gardner • James Gay • Robert L. Gay • Ross Gay • Ivan M. Gerwig • Lloyd W. Gerwig • A. B. Given • Ralph F. Hitchcock • John T. Seale • Charles H. Frame

Delbert Given • Parnel Greenlief • Tom Greenlief • William Greenlief • Robert Gross • Alex Groves • Blane Groves • Forrest Groves • Margaret Griffin • Dyer Gum • James Gum • Earl Hall Jr • John C. Hall Jr • Oran Hall • Robert Hall • Byrd Hamric • Gale Hamric • D.M. Eugene Hardman • Bernard L Harper • Gerald L Hashman • Peter Hays • Earl A Hearst • James M Hefner • Kenneth Hembury • Ted Hembury • Warren Hembury • Wilford Hembury • John Henderson • Henry C Herne

Freddie Bushong • Clarence Hurst • Henry Eisenhart • William Eisenhart • Herold James • Paul James • Woodrow James • James L. Offenus • Delbert Keener • Robert Keener • Wayland Keener • Clifford Keen • Claude Keith • Emmet Keith • Ernest Keith • Curtis Kisling • Kenneth Kisling • Charles

Gassaway Community Building image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Craig Doda, August 2, 2026

3. Gassaway Community Building

Kirby • Robert Kibbee • Herbert King • James King • Harry E. Kyer • James P. Packard • Edward E. Layton • Charles T. Lyon • Henry Clay Martin • Benjamin H. Heck

Charles Metz • James Metz • Rex Metz • Wallace R. Kock • Buddy Miller • Charles Miller • Edward G Miller • James Miller • Lawrence Miller • Carl Mollehan • Howard Mollehan • James Mollehan • Lantie Mollehan • Charles Moore • Ernie Moore • Fred Moore Jr • Harry Moore • Jonnie Moore • William B. Moore • George Morgan • William Morris • Evelyn Mullins • Orvil Mullins • Wilbur Mullins • Carl Munsey • Ralph Murphy • Jesse W. Stewart

William Murphy • Don McCarty • Wilford McCauley • Betty McCune • Bruce McCune • Earl McCune Jr. • Carl Wm. McCune • Eugene McCune • Fredrick McCune • Jennings McCune • Charles E. Moore • Madge McCune • Paul McCune • Richard McCune • Iven McLlwain • Dolf McLaughlin • Harry McLaughlin • Howard McMilliam • Jack McLaughlin • William McLaughlin • Eugene Metheney • Robert R. Metheney • Stanley Metheney • Eugene McMarrow • Earl L. Hall • James K. Holland • Lucius L. Ireland

Merlin Hudkins • Howard H. Lafon • Gerald Nardella • Angelo Nardella • A. F. Nicholas

Photographed by Craig Doda, August 2, 2026

4. Veterans Memorial

Jr. • John C. Otto • John C. Otto • William H. Otto • John Palmer • Derestine Perrine • Wm. Spergon Perrine • Gerald Phillips • Heith Phillips • Robert L. Phillips • Ralph J. Pletcher • Adrian Ramsey • Ben F. Ramsey • Charles R. Ramsey • Hershel E. Ramsey • John G. Ramsey • Amos Riffle Jr. • Berkley Riffle • John Rader • Woodrow W. Douglas • William D. Hart • H. Arden Jackson • Orvin R. James

Frederick Riffle • Hayward Riffle • William Riffle • Samuel R. Riffle Jr. • Quenton Riffle • William Rose • Clifford Rose • Haril A. Ross • Charles Rolley • Robert Rollyson • George Russell Jr. • Paul Russell • Carl H. Sands • Burton Clyde Sands • Oval J. Sears • Charles Sergent • Helen B. Sergent • James Sergent • Ralph M. Sergent • Carl Shaffer • Russell S. Shaffer • Arnold D. Shaver • Earl Sharpe • Frank Shears • Harry Shaver Jr. • Homer Shears • Hubert Shears • Leonard Shears • Roy Shears • Victor Kevedy

Herold Shoemaker • Harry Shomo • John Shomo • William Short • Wirt "Bud" Singleton • Joe N. Skidmore • Karlo Skidmore • Murel V Skidmore • Roy L Skidmore • Max Slaughter • Chester Smarr • Harry Smith • James Smith • Thorton Smith • Wesley

Photographed by Craig Doda, August 2, 2026

5. Veterans Memorial

Smith • Bud Sommerfield • Frank Sommerfield • Fred Squires • Robert Stanley • Everette Stanley • Ernie Stewart • Phillip C. Stewart • Stelman Stewart • Paul Stonestreet • Robert Sumpter • Charles Tanner • John Tanner • Roscoe Tanner • D. Kyle Baker

Charles Thompson • Robert L. Traugh • Frank H. Veo • Charles Umbarger • Cecil Umbarger • Woodrow V. Vick • Stephen M. Walker • Ralph Warner • Lawrence Wayne • H. L. Welch • Arch Weekley Jr • Arden West • Russell Williams • Charles Wilson • Marvin M. Wilson • Gerald L. Winemiller • Burl Woods • Earl "Dob" Woods • Edward Woods • Nobel Woods • William E. Woods • Edgar Woods • Charles Wright • Forrest L. Young • Frank Young Jr • Johnnie Young • Harry J. Young • Charles S. Baker

Burlie L. Yearley Jr. • Paul S. Jackson • Harry A. Jackson • Charles E. Cutlip • Cecil R. Patton • Birchard A. Patrick • Kermit E. Patrick • Rodney B. Belknap • Russell C Belknap • Truman J Belknap • Walter L Belknap • Orvin R. James • James Robert Holland • Behle Tungon Holland • N. Burl Keener • Larry S. Keener • Orey Keener Jr. • Roger G. Keener • Carl Funzin Jr. • Burl R. Metheney • Mollohan, George • Mollohan, Orval

Photographed by Craig Doda, August 2, 2026

6. Veterans Memorial

P. • Darrell Eysell

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.

Location. 38° 40.283′ N, 80° 46.54′ W. Memorial is in Gassaway, West Virginia, in Braxton County. It is at the intersection of Elk Street (West Virginia Route 5) and 5th Street, on the right when traveling south on Elk Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 413 Elk St, Gassaway WV 26624, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in North Central West Virginia.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Southern Appalachia. 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 Mississippian Culture.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Gassaway Veterans Memorial (here, next to this marker); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (here, next to this marker); Watering Trough (within

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shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Fighting and Flames (approx. 3.3 miles away); Burning of Sutton (approx. 3.3 miles away); Suttonville (approx. 3.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gassaway.

Another marker is no longer nearby. The Burning of Suttonville (was approx. 3.3 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Credits. This page was last revised on September 4, 2026. It was originally submitted on August 24, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 13 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 24, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. 4, 5, 6. submitted on August 28, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.