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Wright County "Lest We Forget" Memorial

 
 
Wright County "Lest We Forget" Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Duane Hall, October 14, 2016
1. Wright County "Lest We Forget" Memorial
Front Side
Inscription.
(Front Side)
Lest We Forget

World War I

Bare, Roy W. • Baker, Ovie • Beckett, Frank • Branstetter, Marvin • Brazeal, Jesse • Chadwell, James • Clark, Alexander • Evans, J. Frank • Findley, George E. • Floyd, Samuel D. • Gresham, Paul • Hire, Chester • Hofforth, O.A. • Hunt, Paul • Ingraham, T.C., Jr. • Johnson, Lewis • King, Clarence • McMurtry, O.H. • Plaster, Clarence • Scott, J.B. • Sellers, Elmer B. • Skyles, J.W. • Snow, Harry • Street, Walter • Tester, Leon • Thorne, Maynard • Todd, Joseph • Tool, Archie W. • Wright, Frank • Yeager, Otis • Young, Ray

World War II
Bailey, Claude • Butcher, Elisha E. • Bradshaw, Carl • Brott, Kenneth C. • Buttram, Warren B. • Calhoun, Chester L. • Cantrell, Sammy • Cantrell, Vaughn • Claxton, Charles G. • Claxton, Lawrence L. • Claxton, Billie Burke • Craig, Eugene C. • Curtright, Lawrence L. • Cravens, Clifford F. • Davis, Lowell • Gann, Sherrell • Halliburton, Ardell J. • Hembree, Floyd F. • Henslee, Doyle • Hightower, Dalton • Hopkins, George W. • Hudson, Murl • Hunsaker, Norman C. • Hurt, Lester M. • Hurt, Newel A. • Jarrett, Harold E. • Johnson, Charles F. • Kelley, Ova Art • Key, Robert E. • Lathrom, Lloyd E. • Marah, Adren K. • Massey, Toscha M. • Masters, Harry S. • Matlock, James S. • Mayberry, Alvin C. • McIntosh,
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Earl N. • Mott, Clay B. • Mulkey, Joseph E. • Painter, Clement C. • Parsons, Curtis • Pearman, Harold F. • Perkins, Oris P. • Poort, Sylvester C. • Prock, Ernest L. • Riley, Thomas E. • Rippee, Harry W. • Rook, Ben N. • Roy, Raymond R. • Sanders, Lee • Shannon, Clay D. • Shannon, Lawrence R. • Todd, Harold A. • Todd, Rex L. • Thompson, Chester Hoyt • Thorne, Wiley K. • Tudor, Kenneth R. • Wilson, Layne • Woody, Lloyd • Wright, Robert W.

In Memory of Those Who Gave
Their Lives From Wright County
World Wars I and II

(Back Side)
Lest We Forget

Korean War Casualties
Andrew B. Brown • Jerry L. Dennis • William E. Gallup • Leslie D. Moore • Charles W. Stapp

9/11 Attack
Craig Scott Amundson
 
Erected by American Legion Auxiliary, Elmer E. Sellers Unit No. 45.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 37° 15.027′ N, 92° 30.646′ W. Memorial is in Hartville, Missouri, in Wright County. It can be reached from the intersection of S. Main Avenue (State Highway 5) and W. Rolla Street (State Highway 38). Marker is located on the east side of the grounds of the Wright
Wright County "Lest We Forget" Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Duane Hall, October 14, 2016
2. Wright County "Lest We Forget" Memorial
Back Side
County Courthouse. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Hartville MO 65667, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Southwest Missouri. It is also in the American Ozarks, in the Lewis & Clark Corridor, 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, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Wright County (a few steps from this marker); The Battle of Hartville (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Battle of Hartville Confederate Monument (about 800 feet away); Veterans Memorial (approx. 10.3 miles away); Laura Ingalls Wilder (approx. 10.7 miles away); War Memorial (approx. 10.7 miles away); Carl "Sub" Mays (approx. 10.7 miles away); The Wilder Home / The Little House Books Began Here (approx. 10.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hartville.
 
Memorial in Front of Wright County Courthouse image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Duane Hall, October 14, 2016
3. Memorial in Front of Wright County Courthouse
Wright County Marker and "Lest We Forget" Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Duane Hall, October 14, 2016
4. Wright County Marker and "Lest We Forget" Memorial
Marker and memorial are on east side of the grounds of the courthouse
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on November 1, 2016. It was originally submitted on November 1, 2016, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas. This page has been viewed 636 times since then and 14 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on November 1, 2016, by Duane Hall of Abilene, Texas.
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