Columbus in Bartholomew County, Indiana — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial
Dedicated May 30, 1997
Photographed by Courtesy:: Marilyn S. Wolf, October 9, 2011
1. Full View - - Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial Marker
Inscription.
The Bartholomew County Memorial for veterans is a tribute to those living and dead who answered the Nations Call in the conflicts of the twentieth century.
Sherman Rhude 1897-1918 Gordon Haggard 1908-1944 John Arrington 1948-1967 Joseph Stuckey 1912-1944 Russell Shepherd 1925-1945 Oskar Trimpe 1892-1918 Carl Wilson 1922-1944 Julius Roupp 1891-1918 Gregory Weisner 1947-1968 Edward Blair 1917-1945 T. Delmonte Carpenter 1921-1953 James Stringer 1913-1943 Martin Miller 1911-1945 Wilbur Steinkamp 1919-1944 Jeremy McQueary 1983-2010 Robert Hayes 1935-1969 Raymond Barbour 1896-1918 Lowell Mahoney 1921-1945 Charles Smiley 1928-1952 Howard Boxman 1922-1944 Jack Durbin 1922-1943 Emmett Shackelford 1925-1945 James Allen Baker 1912-1943 Rondal C. Brown 1923-1944 Milton Reeves 1919-1943 James Larkin 1898-1918 Harry Patrick 1890-1918 Joseph Schwartzkopf 1914-1944 Everett Wagner 1919-1945 Leo Plunkett 1888-1918 Billy Smith 1947-1968 Victor Nysewander 1886-1918 John Trotter 1920-1944 Don Wright 1915-1944 Donald D. Alvis 1945-1968 Peter Daum 1888-1918 Robert Ferrenburg
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1915-1944 Chester Mcnealy 1926-1945 Gale William Dixon 1943-1968 Garnett Cavender 1910-1944 Jerry Downs 1945-1966 Donald Fields 1921-1944 Floyd Robertson 1894-1918 William Lucas 1915-1943 Robert Cody 1944-1969 John Cox 1921-1945 Frank Gaston 1884-1918 Millard Newsom 1895-1918 Leonard Graham 1919-1945 Robert D. Barkes 1943-1965 Loren Voiles 1910-1944 George W. Horton 1919-1944 Cecil Maddock 1898-1918 Francis Robertson 1915-1945 Max A. Mouser 1941-1975 James E. Brewer 1943-1968 Harley Clark 1915-1945 Ernest Trimpe 1924-1945 Leslie Woods 1921-1945 Edwin Sharp 1917-1944 John Fuel 1920-1944 Charles Stillabower 1898-1918 Floyd Noe 1913-1944 John F. (Jim) Ostick 1929-1953 Donald Harrison 1944-1965 Orville Moyer 1896-1917 William Brown 1924-1944 Reed L. Smith Jr. 1918-1945 Erven Meyer 1917-1945 Arthur Keller 1917-1945 Robert W. Langwell 1924-1950 Grover Kinney 1929-1950 Arnold Jenkins 1893-1918 Thomas Carmichael 1924-1944 Francis Scheidt 1922-1943 William Thompson 1925-1944 Ernest Hall 1919-1944 Alan Randall 1930-1952 Sherman Rhude 1897-1918 Gordon Haggard
Photographed by Courtesy:: Marilyn S. Wolf, October 9, 2011
2. One of the "Walk Stones"
1908-1944 John Arrington 1948-1967 Joseph Stuckey 1912-1944 Russell Shepherd 1925-1945 Oskar Trimpe 1892-1918 Carl Wilson 1922-1944 Maurice Thornburg 1921-1945 Randall Harris 1948-1968 Cassius N. Marlin 1899-1918 Herschel Eckelman 1914-1945 Harley Long 1916-1944 Carl Eckelman 1892-1919 Steven C. Epperson 1947-1974 Reed Williams 1914-1945 John A. Barlow 1938-1959 Glenn Bowers Jr. 1923-1958 Chester Lane 1924-1944 Richard Regan 1905-1944 Robert Miller 1924-1953 James Robert Hunt 1940-1970 Kent Voyles 1887-1918 Lowell Kanouse 1919-1945 Donald Shoaf 1926-1945 William Fisher 1930-1952 Steven Burton 1947-1968 Jesse Cochran 1887-1918 Walter Golden 1923-1945 Virgil Phillips 1925-1950 Dennis Chomel 1947-1967 Merle Clark 1924-1944 Ben Crouch 1923-1944 Wilbur Guthrie 1898-1918 Paul Nading 1916-1945 Robert Spicer 1922-1944 Franklin Dulong 1933-1968 Charles Leming 1945-1969 Gerald Eckelman 1917-1944 John Hovis 1886-1918 Earl Colter 1887-1918 Gary Pace 1945-1969 Jackie Hulse 1933-1952 Carl McMillan 1925-1944 Sampson Willoughby 1924-1945 Bernard Ross 1920-1945 Gerald
Photographed by Courtesy:: Marilyn S. Wolf, October 9, 2011
3. July. 1918 Letter - - (Louis Tabor)
Eckelman 1917-1944 John Hovis 1886-1918 Earl Colter 1887-1918 Gary Pace 1945-1969 Jackie Hulse 1933-1952 Carl McMillan 1925-1944 Sampson Willoughby 1924-1945 Bernard Ross 1920-1945 Clarence Bell 1920-1944 Jeffrey Gossett 1944-1966 William Pumphrey 1888-1918 James Stout 1917-1945 David Askew 1933-1953 Marvin Monroe 1947-1968 Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck 1912-1944 Jonathan Daniel Menke 1986-2008 Frank Sachleben 1917-1944 Glen Tatem 1919-1950 Clarence Palmer 1930-1967 Louis Tabor 1900-1918 Raymond Scroghines 1923-1943 Hugo Claycamp 1924-1943 Joseph Macy 1948-1969 Edward Hunter 1877-1900 Ellis Elden Whitis 1926-1945 Robert Lind 1923-1943 Carl Heagy 1916-1944 John Stearns 1933-1953 Albert Campfield 1947-1968 Carl Neuert 1898-1918 Max Robertson 1920-1944 Jonathon M. Hunter 1993-2017 Ralph Hill 1924-1944 Neal Noland 1922-1944 George W. Wilson 1923-1944 Earl Hall 1918-1944 Frank L. Wilcoxson 1894-1918 Aaron Essex 1912-1944 William Hale 1949-1968 Howard Reno 1893-1942 Robert L. Smith 1922-1942 Hubert W. Loesch 1923-1945 Curtis Findley 1917-1945 Jesse Baker 1914-1945
Photographed by Craig Doda, September 6, 2026
4. Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial
Elbert E. Bumbalough 1918-1944 Walter Ott Jr. 1923-1945 Avery Green 1925-1950 Joseph Anderson 1919-1943 Delmar Green 1917-1944 John Williams 1922-1945 Joseph Stroup 1916-1944 Forrest Burns 1922-1952 Russell Henderson 1924-1944 Walter Stillabower 1896-1918 David Schlehuser 1940-1964 Herbert Newby 1900-1918 Wayne Hill 1920-1943 John Crump 1915-1943 Donald Lee Moore 1924-1944 Rufus Baker 1896-1918 John C. Bishop 1984-2010 Benjamin Woehrman 1889-1918 George Irwin 1922-1942 Homer Reedy 1921-1944 Frederick Graham 1924-1945 Donald G. Clark 1923-1944 Damon Judd 1915-1945 Edgar Jones 1930-1951 William Weales 1925-1945 Ralph L. Denny 1941-1963 Arthur Hunter 1891-1919 Jack Hogan 1918-1944 Alva Woodruff Jr. 1922-1945 Melvin Richeson 1911-1944 Frederick Keller 1918-1945
Erected 1997.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
Location. 39° 12.039′ N, 85° 55.29′ W. Memorial is in Columbus, Indiana, in Bartholomew County. It is on Washington Street south of 3rd Street (State Road 46), on the right when traveling
Photographed by Craig Doda, September 6, 2026
5. Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial
south. Located on the South/East lawn of the Bartholomew County Courthouse in Columbus, Indiana. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 234 Washington Street, Columbus IN 47201, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Southern Indiana. It is also in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. 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 and also the Northwest Territory.
More about this memorial. The interior walls of the forty (40) foot tall stones are filled with many inscriptions. This Memorial is the most striking that I have seen and "experienced"!!
Photographed by Courtesy:: Marilyn S. Wolf, October 9, 2011
7. Looking East - - Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial Marker
Photographed by Courtesy:: Marilyn S. Wolf, October 9, 2011
8. Second Walk Stone
Photographed by Courtesy:: Marilyn S. Wolf, October 9, 2011
9. South/East Corner - - Bartholomew County Courthouse
Credits. This page was last revised on October 8, 2026. It was originally submitted on October 13, 2011, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana. This page has been viewed 2,490 times since then and 84 times this year. Last updated on October 8, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on October 13, 2011, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana. 4, 5. submitted on October 8, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. 6, 7, 8, 9. submitted on October 13, 2011, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
