Wareham in Plymouth County, Massachusetts — The American Northeast (New England)

Wareham War Memorial

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

1. Wareham War Memorial Marker

Main inscription on the east side of the marker

Inscription.
Erected by the Town of Wareham in memory of her loyal sons 1904
[panel 1]
King George's War
John Bates • Barnabas Bates • Jabez Besse • Joshua Besse • Samuel Besse • Nathaniel Besse • Joseph Besse • Nathaniel Chubbuck • Ebenezer Chubbuck • Gershom Morse • Newbury Morse • Oliver Norris • Henry Saunders • Elnathan Sampson

Indians
Jo. Joseph • Sol. Joseph • Jabez Wickett • Webguish

Revolutionary War
Isaac Ames • Willis Barrows • Phineas Savery • Sergt. Jeremiah Bumpus • Sergt. Ichabod Sampson • Jesse Briggs • John Bates • Asaph Bates • Barnabas Bates • Lieut. Joseph Bates • Thomas Bates • Samuel Bates • Jabez Besse • Silas Besse • John Bourne • Ebenezer Bourne • Sylvester Bumpus • Barnabas Bumpus • William Bumpus • James Bumpus • Noah Bumpus • Lot Bumpus • Willard Bumpus • Joseph Bumpus • John Besse • Asa Bumpus • Lieut. Prince Burgess • Samuel Burgess • Elisha Burgess • Nathaniel Burgess • Caleb Burgess • David Burgess • Nathan Bassett • Benjamin Briggs • Lieut. Joshua Briggs • Perez Briggs • Hallett Briggs • Joseph Bosworth • Samuel Barrows • Thomas Barrows • Benjamin Benson • Benjamin Bourne • Timothy Chubbuck • Ebenezer Chubbuck • Benjamin Chubbuck • William Conant • Samuel Caswell • Ebenezer Clark • Philemon Dunham • Chap. Noble Everett • Gen. Israel Fearing • Capt. Noah Fearing • Silas Fearing • Benjamin Fearing • John Galt • Capt. John Gibbs • Sergt. Jonathan Gibbs • Benjamin Gibbs • Joshua GibbsJr. • George Glover • George Gurney • William Hunt • Calvin Howard • Corp. Enos Howard • Josiah Harlow • Arthur Hathaway • Solomon Hitchman • Amaziah King • Capt. Rufus Lincoln • John Lothrop • Samuel Morse

[panel 2]
Revolutionary War (cont.)
Reuben Maxim • Capt. David Nye • Jabez Nye • Drum. Thomas Norris • Samuel Norris • Ephraim Norris • Nathan Norris • John Oldham • Samuel Phillips • Rufus

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Perry • Daniel Perry • David Perry • William Parris • William Pierce • William Parkerson • Benjamin Russell • Lieut. Samuel Savery • Nathan Savery • Edward Sparrow • Wilbur Swift • Elisha Swift • Benjamin Swift • Jesse Swift • Judah Swift • Lieut. William Swift • Joseph Swift • Stephen Swift • Richard Sears • Joseph Sturtevant • Consider Sturtevant • Lot Sturtevant • Nathan Sturtevant • Moses Sturtevant • Heman Sturtevant • Andrew Sturtevant • Archipaus Saunders • David Saunders • Joseph Saunders • Jonathan Saunders • Seth Stevens • Isaac Stevens • Thomas Sampson • William Thorington • Lot Thather • John Winslow • Joseph Winslow

Navy
Capt. Barzillai Besse • John Gibbs • Capt. James Southworth

War of 1812-1815
Col. Alex Bourne • Josiah Bourne • Benjamin Bumpus • Admiral Bumpus • Eliphalet Bumpus • Asa Besse • William Bates • Spooner Briggs • Corp. Val Coffin • Hartford Clafton • Noble EverettJr. • John Galt • Joshua Gibbs • Seth Gibbs • Corp. William Gibbs • Calvin Howard • William Howard • Thomas Hathaway • Nathaniel Hamblin • Seth Leonard • Rufus LincolnJr. • Ichabod Leonard • Hugh McManimon • Corp. Benjamin Nye • Salathiel

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

2. Wareham War Memorial Marker

Another long view perspective

Perry • Sergt. Samuel Savery • Josiah Soule • Phineas Savery • Curtis Tobey • Enoch Tupper • Thomas Writhington • Thomas Young

Mexican War
Ebenezer Swift

Civil War
Gen. Ebenezer Swift • Thomas Ackerman • William Ashton • Frederick S. Allen • Joseph A. Alden • George H. Allen • Marcus Atwood • Warren Atwood • John Andrews • Jeremiah Benson

[panel 3 photo is illegible; Civil War (cont.), 100+ names]

[panel 4]
Civil War (cont.)
Patrick Hartford • Thomas C. Haskins • Abel T. Harris • Jeremiah C. Haley • Lemuel Harlow • Joseph Hayden • Orin H. Holmes • Abial S. Hammond • George Hammond • Gardner B. Hathaway • Nathaniel B. Hathaway • Patrick Hackett • Aaron S. Harlow • Michael Hatteran • Albert F. Hathaway • Horatio G. Harlow • Benjamin F. Hathaway • Leonard B. Haskins • William H. Ingraham • William V. Johnson • Uriel M. Johnson • Martin Jackson • Benjamin S. Keyes • Rufus H. King • William King • Edward Kinney • Herman Kirke • William L. Leonard • William CS. Little • Gorham Lovell • John A. Lennon • H H. Lovell • James T. LeonardJr. • Lucas Longendycke • Martin Lachore • George H. Loring • Charles C. Murdoch • Jacob Maxim • John MorrisonJr. • Daniel Murphy • John Mannisuder • John Manimon • John D. Manter • Michael Madigan • James Madigan • Wilson A. Morse • Andrew MorseJr. • Jennison G. Morse • Luther Morse • Seth G. Morse • James F. Manimon • Nathan F. Manimon • Seth FT. Manimon • John McCabe • John Mullen • John M. Maxim • Oliver A. Morse • Samuel W. Morse • Frank W. Murdoch • Simeon L. Nickerson • Hiram Nickerson • Jere. T. Nightingale • Maranda Nickerson • James T. Nickerson • Joseph T. Nickerson • Frederick U. Nickerson • Ivory H. Nickerson • John W. Nelson • Benjamin S. Nye • Welden S. Pierce • Nathaniel Pittsley • Theodore E. Paddock • Elisha G. Perry • Frederick A. Pratt • Joshua D. Pierce • David Perry

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

3. Wareham War Memorial Marker

South side view of the marker

• Charles P. Pittsley • George H. Pierce • Charles M. Packard • Sylvester Pratt • Andrew T. Pratt • Thomas Phillips • Anthony L. Pierce • Gamaliel Pierce • Orlando C. Prouty • David PerryJr. • Alexander R. Perry • David A. Perry • John R. Oldham • John S. Oldham • Isaac T. Oldham • William H. Rounseville • William H. Raymond • James Ryan • Joseph Ryan • Isaiah A. Russell • James R. Russell • Isaac Russell • Stephen S. Russell • William S. Raymond • Charles Ryder • George F. Ryder • George H. Robbins • John Rogers • Theodore P. Robbins • William T. Rogers • Samuel A. Robinson • Seth H. Shurtleff

[panel 5]
Civil War (cont.)
Joseph N. Seaver • Hiram F. Sherman • Archibald Stringer • Joseph Snell • Edward R. Stevens • John Sampson • William Snell • Jeremiah Sullivan • Hiram F. Stuart • Samuel Sweet • Isaiah W. Sweet • William F. Staples • Daniel E. Swift • David S. Swift • Luther F. Shaw • Mark Sullivan • Albert F. Shores • Julian W. Swift • Alexander Snell • William W. Swift • Stephen T. Tripp • Joseph W. Tinkham • Harrison O. Thomas • Henry M. Thomas • George A. Thompson • George C. Taylor • Charles Thompson • John CA. Tripp • Simeon W. Turner • Theodore F. Tobey • Stephen Tenney • James F. Thompson • Lieut. John A. Walsh • Cyrus F. Westgate • Daniel Westgate • David WestgateJr. • Aaron M. Westgate • William Westgate • Joseph Westgate • Joshua C. Wing • William Walsh • Henry W. Winsby

Navy
John S. Allen • Eben H. Atwood • George S. Babcock • George J. Briggs • Marcus M. Benson • Lothrop W. Benson • Benjamin Bumpus • Benjamin C. Bourne • Charles H. Briggs • William H. Borden • Ansel Besse • Isaac T. Burgess • Benjamin H. Burgess • George E. Chipman • Benjamin C. Chubbuck • John F. Crittenden • Alfred B. Caswell • Charles C. Danforth • Charles W. Darrow • James A. Dumbolton • Harrison Ellis • William P. Gibbs • Joseph

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

4. Wareham War Memorial Marker

Panel 2 names

T. Hathaway • Leonard S. Harris • Samuel H. Hamblin • Patrick Harrington • Edward Hogan • John Hogan • Philander KeithJr. • John D. King • Frank B. King • Nathan C. Long • Jeremiah Murphy • Francis A. May • Charles H. May • George H. Merithew • Chas. W. Nightingale • William A. Nickerson • George H. Perry • Thomas Pierce • Charles H. Ryder • Samuel B. Runnells • Moses B. Raymond • Andrew W. Reed • Zimri S. Robinson • Joseph S. Sherman • Adolphus Savary • Samuel T. Silsby • Henry C. Spence • Frederick A. Stuart • Oliver Smith • George C. Tobey • Calvin R. Weaver • Joshua C. Wing • George L. Harris

Phillipine War (sic)
Eugene O. Mitchell • Philip P. Russell

Erected 1904 by The Town of Wareham.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.

Location. 41° 45.963′ N, 70° 43.546′ W. Memorial is in Wareham, Massachusetts, in Plymouth County. It is on Main Street, in the median. Located in the median in the town common of Wareham Mass. Also known as Center Park. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Wareham MA 02571, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the South Coast.

It is also in the American Northeast,

in New England,

and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Wareham World War I Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); Tremont Nail Factory (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Wareham Cotton Factory Memorial (about 600 feet away); Wareham Bicentennial War Memorial

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

5. Wareham War Memorial Marker

Panel 3 names

(approx. half a mile away); The Unknown Seaman Memorial (approx. 5.6 miles away); SS Pan Oceanic Faith Memorial (approx. 5.6 miles away); Crossing the Bar Memorial (approx. 5.6 miles away); Merchant Marine Memorial (approx. 5.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wareham.

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

6. Wareham War Memorial Marker

Long view of marker

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

7. Wareham War Memorial Marker

East side view of the marker

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

8. Wareham War Memorial Marker

Panel 1 names

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

9. Wareham War Memorial Marker

Panel 4 names

Photographed by James R. Murray, July 16, 2015

10. Wareham War Memorial Marker

Panel 5 names

Credits. This page was last revised on November 6, 2026. It was originally submitted on July 16, 2015, by James R. Murray of Elkton, Florida. This page has been viewed 669 times since then and 73 times this year. Last updated on November 5, 2026, by Doug Bates of Loveland, Ohio. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. submitted on July 16, 2015, by James R. Murray of Elkton, Florida. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.