Monticello in Lewis County, Missouri — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

War Memorial

Photographed by Jason Voigt, October 16, 2026

1. War Memorial Marker

Inscription.
World War I Army
Walter Ray Adams • Clarence Rufus Becker • Otto Bruner • Louis William Campen • Elmer L. Case • Isaac P. Coney • Tom E. Davis • Daniel Fields • Howard Haggins • John Albert Harrung • Albert Hawkins • Dick Hemming • Russell Hoskins • Edward H. McLin • Earl Primrose • Charles Ray • Edward J. Rockenfield • William B. Smith • Harry L. Swagger • Columbus Clarence Thompson • Richard E. Thompson • Earl Washburn

Navy
Coleman Bumbarger • Roscue Thomas Chambers • Charles Frank Lankford • Homer Edwin Wallace • Revere Howard Yarbrough

National Guard
Harry F. Herrick

Vietnam War
Navy
Randolph Gamet

Army
Melvin W. Lay • Archie James Maple, Jr.

Marines
Donald E. Whitaker

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Vietnam • War, World I.

Location. 40° 7.108′ N, 91° 42.844′ W. Memorial is in Monticello, Missouri, in Lewis County. It is on Lafayette Street east of Washington Street, on the left when traveling west. Memorial is in front of Lewis County Circuit Court building. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal

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address: 100 East Lafayette St, Monticello MO 63457, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in North Missouri. It is also in the American Midwest,

in the Lewis & Clark Corridor,

in the Corn Belt,

and in the Great River Road Region.

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,

the Louisiana Purchase,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 6 other markers are within 12 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Lewis County, Missouri (a few steps from this marker); Monticello Christian Church (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Canton (approx. 10.4 miles away); History Along The Mississippi River Parkway (approx. 10.4 miles away); Lincoln School (approx. 10.4 miles away); La Grange on the River (approx. 11.6 miles away).

War Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Jason Voigt, October 16, 2026

2. War Memorial

Photographed by Jason Voigt, October 16, 2026

3. War Memorial

Credits. This page was last revised on October 23, 2026. It was originally submitted on October 23, 2026, by Jason Voigt of Glen Carbon, Illinois. This page has been viewed 4 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on October 23, 2026, by Jason Voigt of Glen Carbon, Illinois.