History of Clay County, Missouri, Part 18

Author: Woodson, W. H. (William H.), 1840-
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Topeka, [Kan.] : Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 780


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man fired upon them from a sorghum patch, put a bullet through Jesse James' right lung and routed the party. This practically ended his career as a bushwhacker. His companions hid him away and one Nat. Tigue nursed him for a considerable time.


It was a long time until Jesse was able to be in the saddle again. In February, 1865, in the rear of Lexington, when coming in with some others to surrender, he was fired on by a detachment of Federals belong- ing to the Second Wisconsin Cavalry and again shot through the right lung. From this wound he did not recover for many months. He was nursed by his comrades, then by his aunt, Mrs. West, in Kansas City, and at last taken by his sister. Miss Susie, to Rulo, Nebraska, where the Samnel family had been banished the previous summer by order of the Federal military commanders in this quarter. At Rulo, Doctor Samuels was making a precarious living in the practice of his profession-medi- cine-and here the young guerrilla lay until in August, 1865, when the family returned to their Clay County farm. Jesse united with the Bap- tist Church sometime in 1868.


When, as is alleged, the James brothers entered upon their life of brigandage and robbery, their associates were those of the old guerrilla days and it is but true to say that this life succeeded to or was born of the old bushwhacking career. Not every old Confederate bushwhacker became a bandit, for many of the most desperate of Quantrell's, Todd's and Anderson's men became quiet, reputable citizens, but at the first every bandit in western Missouri was an ex-guerrilla.


After the Gallatin bank robbery the civil authorities of this county began the chase after the now noted brothers and kept it up for years, or until Jesse was killed in April, 1882, and Frank surrendered. The pursuit was considered by each Clay County sheriff as a part of his regular duties and transmitted the same as the books and papers of his office to his successor.


Lack of space forbids an enumeration of the many adventures of the officers of this county in their efforts to capture the James boys and their partners. One fact must be borne in mind. Every sheriff worked faith- fully and bravely to discharge his duties. The heroic and desperate fight near the Samuel residence between the intrepid Capt. John S. Thomason and his brave young son, Oscar, and the two brothers, when the Captain's horse was killed ; the night fight made by Capt. John S. Grooms; the many


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expeditions by night and day in season and out of season, by Thomason, Grooms, Patton and Timberlake can not here be detailed, interesting as the incidents thereof may be.


Connected with the career of the bandit brothers, may be briefly mentioned the attempt of Pinkerton's detectives to effect their capture- an attempt blunderingly and brutally made and ignominously failing, re- sulting in the killing of little Archie Peyton Samuel, the tearing off of Mrs. Samuel's right arm, the wounding of other members of the family, and the complete discomfiture of the attacking party of detectives. Whether or not, either or both of the James boys and another member of the band participated in this melee and whether or not one of the detectives was killed, can not here be stated.


The murder of Daniel Askew, the nearest neighbor of Doctor Samuel, which occurred a few weeks after Pinkerton's raid, has always been at- tributed to one or both of the James brothers, though the charge is stoutly denied by their friends. Askew was called out one night and shot dead on his doorstep. A detective named J. W. Whicher, who, as he himself avowed, came to this county to plan in some way the capture of the brothers, was taken across the Missouri River into Jackson County and killed by somebody in Jackson County, March 10, 1874.


That any considerable portion of the people of the county ever gave aid or comfort or countenance to the bandits who infested Missouri, whether the James boys, or who ever they were, is so preposterously untrue that there is no real necessity for its denial. Not one person in one hundred of the people of the county knew either of the James boys by sight and but few more had ever seen them. After they entered upon their career of brigandage their visits to the county were so unfrequent and unseasonable and so brief that only the very fewest saw them, and it was not long ere those who once knew them intimately would not have known them had they met them face to face in open day ; for from smooth- faced boys they were growing to bearded men and no change is more complete than that from adolescence to manhood.


Moreover, it is most absurd and most unjust, too, that any consider- able number such as lived in the county of Clay should be supposed to have any sympathy with villainy and villains of any sort. The county is and has now been for years full of school houses and churches and abounding with Christian men and women who fear God and keep His command-


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ments, and keep themselves aloof from evil associations. Morality and love of the right are the rule among our people; immorality and vicious- ness the exception.


That the James boys had a few confederates in Clay County is barely possible. Who they were, however, can now never be known. It is prob- able that if they existed at all they were few in number and their services and the character of their connection unimportant and unconspicuous.


CHAPTER XXIV.


THE WORLD WAR.


PRESIDENT WILSON-AMERICAN .PATRIOTISM-SUMMARY OF WAR-PERSONNEL OF LOCAL DRAFT BOARD-ROSTER OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS FROM CLAY COUNTY-NECROLOGY-HONOR ROLL OF GOLD STARS-AMERICAN EFFORT IN THE WORLD WAR-ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICAN TROOPS.


President Wilson, in his speech before Congress on April 6, 1918, used these eloquent and forceful words that found spontaneous response in the true patriotism of America:


"Let everything that we say, my fellow countrymen, everything that we henceforth plan and accomplish, ring true to this response till the majesty and might of our concerted power shall fill the thought and utterly defeat the force of those who flout and misprize what we honor and hold dear.


"Germany has once said that force, and force alone, shall decide whether justice and peace shall reign in the affairs of men, whether right as America conceives it, and dominion, as she conceives, shall determine the destinies of mankind.


"There is therefore but one response for us; force, force to the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which will make the law of the world, and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust."


It may not be amiss to state here that Clay County has no German citizens, but a goodly number of American citizens of German birth or parentage. As a class, they are frugal, saving, prosperous and honest, withall good livers.


Before our entrance to the great war, most of them were in sympathy with Germany, and such were not neutral. Germany's great propaganda,


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in which over $100,000,000 were spent, was insidious. The effect of many publications like "The Fatherland" had little to say in favor of their government, or of their institutions, but in practically every line eulogized, praised and upheld the institutions and theories of the German Empire, in direct opposition to American principles and institutions. But with the unfurling of Old Glory from the housetops, their hearts beat true, and they at once sprang to action, and responded as a class to every call. If there were reservations in the minds of a few, the number was indeed small, and existed largely in the minds of the suspicious.


By reason of the peculiar situation of this class of our citizens, the editor feels called upon to pay this short tribute. We are Americans, regardless of the route each has traveled to become one. We are one in love of home and country. The names of our boys who toiled, suffered and bled in Flanders field are confined to no nationality. Each is a true American.


"About his brow the laurel and the bay Was often wreathed-on this our Memory dwells- Upon whose bier in reverence today We lay these imortelles.


His was a vital, virile, warrior soul;


If force were needed, he exalted force ; Unswerving as the pole star to the pole,


He held his righteous course.


He smote at wrong, if he believed it wrong.


As did the Knight, with stainless Accolade ;


He stood for right, unfalteringly strong, Forever unafraid.


With somewhat of the Savant and the Sage, He was, when all is said and sung A


Man, The flower imperishable of his valiant Age,


A true American."


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Early Monday morning, November 11, 1918, the news was flashed throughout the country that the armistice had been signed. A treaty of peace had been signed and our boys are returning to their homes. The material is not at hand to give more than the names of those who gave their services to their country. We are not able to give the promotions or special deeds of valor for our boys, for any attempt so to do, with the meager information at hand would be unjust to many.


Summary.


From "Statistical Summary of the War with Germany" prepared by Col. Leonard P. Ayres authorized by the War Department is extracted the following, which, of course, is of interest to our readers:


Among each 100 Americans five took up arms in defense of the country.


During the Civil War ten out of every 100 inhabitants of the North- ern states served as soldiers or sailors. In that struggle 2,400,000 men served in the Northern army and the navy.


Between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, when the armistice went into effect 4,800,000 men constituted our land and naval forces. Yet a force proportional to that put forth by the North during the Civil War would have produced nearly 10,000,000 American fighting men.


The British sent to France in their first year of the war more men than did the United States in the first twelve months. On the other hand, it took England three years to reach a strength of 2,000,000 men in France, while the United States was able to place that number across the seas in one-half that time.


The organization of an immense army as that of the United States, its equipment and transportation across the ocean has never been equaled in the history of the world.


Two out of every three American soldiers who reached France took part in battle. The number that reached France was 2,084,000 and of these 1,300,000 were engaged at the front.


American divisions were in battle for 200 days and engaged in thirteen major operations from the middle of August until the armistice.


The American divisions held during the greater part of the time a front longer than that held by the British in October. The American divisions held 101 miles of line or 23 per cent of the entire western front.


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In the battle of Saint Mihiel 550,000 Americans were engaged, as compared with 100,000 on the North side in the battle of Gettysburg.


The artillery fired more than 1,000,000 shells in four hours, which is the most intense concentration of artillery fire recorded in the history of the world.


The Meuse-Argonne battle lasted forty-seven days, during which 1,200,000 American troops were engaged.


During the period of hostilities two out of every 100 American sol- diers were killed or died of disease. The total battle death of all nations in this war was greater than the total of all the deaths of all the wars in the previous 100 years.


For every man killed in battle seven were wounded.


Five out of every six men sent to hospitals on account of wounds were cured and returned to duty.


In the expeditionary forces battle deaths were twice as many as death from disease.


The number of American lives lost was 122,500, of which about 10,000 were in the navy and the rest in the army and marines attached to it.


The war cost of America was $21,850,000,000, or approximately $1,000,000 an hour. The greatest number of men sent over seas in a single month was 306,000 and the largest returned home in a single month at the time of the report was 333,000.


The supplies shipped from the United States to France was 7,500,000 tons in nineteen months.


The registration of men for the draft was 24,234,021 and of these 2,810,296 were inducted into service. The largest number inducted into the service in a single month was 400,000.


Personnel of the Local Draft Board for Clay County.


Members of Board-Lonzo P. Sissom, Chairman; Dr. W. N. Cuth- bertson, Edgar Archer, Secretary; Laura A. Campbell, Chief Clerk.


Legal Advisory Board-Ralph Hughes, Chairman; W. A. Craven, James S. Simrall.


Medical Advisory Board-Dr. E. H. Miller, Chairman; Dr. J. H. Roth- well, Dr. H. Rowell, Dr. J. J. Gaines, Dr. J. T. Rice, Dr. A. M. Tutt.


Government Appeal Agent-William H. Woodson.


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Roster of Soldiers and Sailors from Clay County, Missouri, in the World War.


Acuff, Leonard Christoph


Becket, Cecil B.


Aker, Bryan


Beery, Wilkerson C.


Ambrose, John Wood.


Bell, Thaddeus H.


Archer, Robert


Benson, Carl Bannard


Arnold, Albert Gay


Beswick, George Robert


Arnote, Perry Floyd


Bishoo, Clarence Wayne


Ashburn, Austin


Black, Leslie Miller


Adamson, Leroy


Blankenship, Ernest D.


Allen, James Lee


Blevins, Fred


Anderson, Arthur. Ray


Boggess, Eliza


Armbruster, Joe L.


Boggess, James Collier


Arnold, George Cleveland


Bostic, George W.


Arthur, Paul A.


Boyd, Harold Tydings


Asher, Estelle Earl


Boyer, Harry Sheridan


Agin, George


Bratcher, Lee R.


Alton, G. P.


Breckenridge, Thomas Riley


Anderson, Reuben


Britton, James McKinley


Arnold, Arthur


Brooks, Eugene Orville


Arnold, Walter


Brown, Harry Arthur


Asbury, Ural Samuel


Brumage, Alpha


Atterbury, Raymond L.


Bryan, Paul A.


Babby, Byron Hubert


Bullock, Frank William


Bacon, James


Burnam, Henry Crafton


Bailey, William


Burris, John Banc


Baker, Lawren William


Bush, James Oscar


Baker, Virgil Lester


Babcock, George Edwin


Baldwin, Guy Browning


Bagby, Edward B.


Barker, Clyde


Baker, Holbert


Barnes. Harry Carlyle


Baker, Robert H.


Barnes, William


Baker, William N.


Barrett, Sherman


Bales, Floyd B.


Bassett, Wylie Stackard


Barlow, L. D.


Bates, Karl William


Barnes, James


Beall. Vivian August


Barnett, Stanley


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Bartee, Lawrence W.


Barr, Ernest


Bates, Claude Allyn


Barton, A. Campbell


Bates, Kenneth Stanford


Bates, Eugene Fields


Beatty, Luther


Bates, William Nowlin


Beckett, Wilbert Estel


Beauchamp, John Arthur


Beistle, Tiffin O.


Reeman, George W. Bell, Harry Elliott


Benson, Vivian Kerr


Beller, Henry Denton


Bevins, Riley Sleet


Bentley, J. R.


Black, Clark


Billings, William Wyatt


Black, Will Homer


Black, Claude Frederick


Blankenship, George W.


Blackmore, James R.


Blevins, William Edward


Blevins, Beeler B.


Boggess, Frank Owen


Boggs, Earl, Jr.


Boggess, Tarleton


Boggess, Harry L.


Bower, Allen W.


Boone, Jasper A.


Bradley, John Osward


Boyer, Ray Vernon


Breeden, Frank


Breckenridge, Fairy F. Breedlove, Harry


Brooks, Wylie


Brody. John Alexander


Brown, Lelen Emil


Brown, Charley H.


Brush, Cleo Wyatt


Brown, William Jewell


Bullock, Charles


Bryan, Claude


Burke, Wilson Pence


Bullock, Charles


Burnam, Joseph


Burriss, Thomas Ganes


Burriss, Henry


Butts, Tipton


Burton, Henry William


Bacon, Floyd Arnold


Bynees, James


Bailey, Benton Gilbert


Camden, Preston Leroy


Baker, James


Campbell, Spurgeon Broadus


Baker, T. J.


Carey, Claude


Baird, J. E.


Carey, Robert


Banks, Henry


Carlyle, Lank A.


Barnes, Gerald Benton


Carpenter, William F.


Barnes, James Richard


Carroll, Elza


Boyer, Olin R.


Bowman, Thomas Fred


Breckenridge, Eddie


Bradley, Leroy


Broderick, Waldo O.


Burke, William Wallace


Bell, William D.


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Chandler, John Temple Cheek, Jasper Lane


Crawford, Wylie Clyde


Creek, Everett Gill


Calvert, Howard Allen


Crews, Lester


Cantrell, Bernis Milton


Crow, Raymond Clark Cusworth, Charles D.


Carey, Lester Clay Carlyle, Arthur L. Carpenter, Clarence M.


Clark, James P.


Carter, E. Kemp


Clark, Oscar Irving Clements, Russell B.


Carson, Fred L.


Coates, John Earl


Chanslor, Earl D.


Cockrill, Troy Logan


Church, Donald Mae


Coleman, Roger B.


Cantrell, Danney H


Collier, Joseph Alfred


Carey, Luther Rowell


Columbia, Leslie


Carlyle, James Sterling


Conyers, Joe


Carpenter, Pryor


Cook, James Hiram


Carr, Lewis Routt


Cooper, Roy Milton


Cavanaugh, Walter


Corum, Alonzo


Chapple, Roy L.


Courtney, Fred Z.


Clardy, Irvin T.


Cox, Walter Wade


Clardy, William Norwood


Crabtree, Jesse Perk


Clark, Oliver Edward


Craven, Curtis J.


Clarke, Joseph


Cravens, Y. D.


Clippard, Dick Columbia Cobb, Uel


Creason, Dorsey E. Crews, L. D. Crockett, John


Coleman, John H.


Collier, James William


Crummitt, Timmı


Columbia, Harmon


Cusworth, Edgar James


Convers, Emerson Swain


Clark, Lester


Cook, Amos Cooper, Ray David Cordell, Jewell P.


Clark, Samuel Wiley


Clevinger, Jewell


Cobb. Elmer Jean


Courtney, Dorris D.


Cole, Kenneth Temple


Cowherd, Maxey G.


Collier, Charles Franklin


Crabb, Robert Samuel


Collins, J. T.


Craighead, Earl L.


Conner, Blaine


Cravens, Aubrey B.


Cravens, Menefee


Conyers, Nathaniel O. Cook, Lewis Calvin


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Cordell, Henry W.


Dagg, George R.


Couch, Arthur Lee


Darnell, William, Jr.


Cowherd, Coleby Chiles


Davis, Arthur L.


Cox, Hines Burnett


Dawson, Cecil


Crank, Carnell


Deen, Cleo Clarence


Craven, Harry J.


DeYoung, Andrew


Crawford, Henry Samuel


Diegel, William Albert


Creason, Mckinley Dean


Dirck, William


Crockett, Roy Leighton


Donaldson, John Doran


Cummins, Raymond W.


Dorman, Lloyd Albert


Dagley, Scott


Douglas, Herman A.


Davidson, Blount Ferril


Doyle, Eddie Hudson


Davis, Hendrix Eugene


Duncan, Gilbert Roy


Dawson, James Carey


Dykes, Fairy Lloyd


DeNoon, Vaughn Sheetz


Eby, Earl Kennedy


Eberts, William Jennings


Diemer, John Obe


Elgin, John Thomas


Dixon, William Joseph


Don Carlos, Frank


Evans, Cecil D.


Dorsey, Andrew Syl


Evans, Joseph Fred


Douglas, James


Ewing, John B.


Dray, Mitchell


Earls, John D.


Duncan, Huey Dykes, Ora B.


Eby, Herbert


Darby, Carl Alvin


Davis, Alvin Clark


Davis, Lewis A.


Evans, Elisha Estes


DeBerry, Albin


Evans, Oscar Lloyd


Dennis, Rubey


Easley, William C. Eberts, Ray Y.


Diegel, Henry Fred


Dillen, John Bernard


Donaldson, Arthur Miller


Don Carlos, Robert


Dougherty, Lewis B., J.


Evans, Frank J.


Downey, Leo C.


Everett, Jack


Dugan, Bernard Cecil


Duncan, George W.


. Eldridge, Bedford Elliott, Graham Estes, Byron Eber


Farmer, Ralph


Farrar, Robert M.


DeYoung, John W.


Elliott, Robert


>Edwards, Earl Frederick Ellett, Frank W. Endicott, John Vernon


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Ferril, Oscar Fischer, Carl Bishop Foley, Henry C. Foley, Roy P.


Glenn, Henry


Gordon, William Garland Grace, John F. Graves, Ludwick


Foster, Charles Boyd


Green, Othaniel Gresham, Burt


Francis, Charles William


Frazier, Clarence Ortle


Groom, Harry C.


Frick, William McKinley


Gully, William Edward


Fairchild, Milton


Gustine, John


Farrar, Frank D.


Gabbert, Paul Bryan


Fenton, Russell


Gans, Rufus


Fihaley, Joe


Gartrell, Charles William


Fischer, Charles Orin


Gibbs. George Franklin


Foley. Peter C.


Gibson, Jesse E.


Foley, Samuel R


Gittings, Lewis Darius


Foster, William Edward


Goodwin, James Earl Gorman, Marshall


Frazier, Robert W.


Grace, Tom F.


Fritzlen, David Walter


Green, Harry Tipton


Farmer, Everett W.


Greene, John Wikoff


Farrar, Hugh A.


Griffin. Herrington L.


Fischer, Fred Lee


Guthrie, Amos


Foley, Luther B.


Gabriel, Clifton Grundy


Ford, Joseph F.


Garnett, Earl Lucas


Fraher, Philip John


Gaw, Marshall


Francis, Ora Glenn


Gibbs, Jesse


Frick, Robert Riley


Gilmer, Robert Gaston


Glay, George (colored)


Gordon, James Forrest


Gourley, James Pasco Graham, Willie Alfred


Gartrell, Charles Burnett


Gearon, Albert Bute


Green, Lawrence Emmett


Gibbs, Leslie Carl


Greer, William Robert


Gittinger, Jesse Norman Gaines. Clifton Grundy


Groom, Arthur T.


Grover, Walter Farr


Frye, Jewell L. Gabbert, Aubrey Galloway, Roy William


Groom, Willie Gulley, Milton Gordon


Ferril, Archie Howell


Finley, John Henry


Francis, James Kenneth


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Gustine, Clyde Haling, Hobart Hall, Hugh Hamel, Fred J. Hancock, Manlius T.


Hart, William P. Harvey, John Edward Hay, Curtis Hendrix, James Martin


Henry, Frank Smith


Hardin, James Roy


Hensley, Henry


Harlin, John J. L.


Hess, Edward Hovey


Harris, Cecil Earl


Hess, Levi Earl


Harris, Lester C.


Harrison, Frank C.


Hessel, Victor Elias Hill, E. C. Hockensmith, Cooper


Hartel, Lawrence W. Hatfield, Frank


Holt, John Homer


Hendrix, Arthur W.


Hoover, O. S.


Henry, William


Hornback, Noel William


Herson, Mark Henry


Howard, Charles Foster


Hess, Evan Edwin


Hubbard, Chester


Hessel, Bert


Hudson, John S. Hughes, Robert G.


Hessel, Clarence Weber


Higgins, William W.


Hunt, Thomas Russell


Husher, Clarence Edward


Hobson, Floyd E. Holt, Herbert Holmes


Halferty, Herschel H.


Holt, Leroy Charles


Hornback, Glenn Charles House, Melvin Howard, Deroy


Hamm, Isaac M. Hansen, Paul


Huddlemeyer, Willie


Hargrove, William A.


Harmon, Rolla Patrick


Harris, James P.


Harris, Sparrel


Hartel, Herbert William


Hall, John Thomas


Hamilton, Ardra Porter Hannon, Louis Hardin, William R.


Harmon, Henry Harris, Earl Ray Harris, Marion L.


Hatfield, Claude Hayes, Lee Roy


Henry, Ralph Wirt Herman, Charles Hess, Ernest W.


Hessenflow, Thomas Hicklin, John J.


Hughes, Joseph P. Hummel, Robert Hunt, William Hays Hall, Bennie


Hall, George C.


Hall, Raymond R.


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Hobbs, Floyd James Hoffman, Henry Holt, King


Hornback, Daniel Earl


Koonse, Orville


Hornback, Shelton B.


Kabardis, Demetros


Howard, Benjamin M.


Keller, Walter David


Huber, Michael M.


Kelley, Jesse Lee


Hughes, James


Kennedy, John Lewis


Humbard, Minter Hunt, William


King, Claude E.


Hutchings, Lester


Kinney, Charles Francis


Irminger, James Philip


Klamm, Robert V.


Irminger, Victor E.


Kaub, Perry Roscoe


Kelly, Jack


Kemper, George Forest


Kennedy, Robert Ellis


Kimber, Forest Lemoine


Johnson, Herbert


King, Howard Churchill


Kirkham, A. A. Kline, Roy Soper


Lancaster, Arthur M.


Latimer, Ralph Vivion


Lee, Fitzhugh Rivers


Leggitt, Benjamin Denham


Lewis, Harry Lewis, W. O.


Lightburne, John Albert


Lincoln, Charles Lincoln, Gatewood S.


Livingston, Ralph Moore


Logan, Artie Wilson


Long. Melvin Brooks


Loos, Carter


Lowres, Bernays


Laffoon, Shirley Larison, Cecil


Leabo, John Z.


Johnson, Floyd M. Johnson, Thelbert Jones, David William Jordon, Fred Robert Jackson, Thomas Gill Jenkins, Earl Powell Johnson, George Jennings Johnston, Elmer Jones, John Paul Judd, Roy A. Kearns, Shelby Kelley, James A. Kennedy, Frank H.


Kerr, Estell Stephens


Kimsey, Edward Lewis Kindred, Joshua Emil


Kittrell, Benjamin Harrison


Kiersted, W., Jr.


Isenhour, Edwin Harold


Jacks, J. D. Jarritt, Delvin Richard Johnson, Carl


Johnson, Thomas Jones. Raymond E. Judson, Glenn Vance Jackson, Alfred Earl Jenkins, Charles William


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Lee, George Quintus


Mabion, Jesse


Lewis, Charles Stephen


Mackley, Sidney Wayne


Lewis, Herbert D.


Main, Edgar, Jr.


Lienhardt, Howard O.


Maloy, Harold Chester


Lilly, Frank T.


Mann, John Jonas


Lincoln, Charles Oliver


Marr, William Walter


Lindau, Lorenzo Henry


Martin, Hubert Ford Massey, Clyde D.


Logan, Russell B.


Means. Guy Kenmore


Long, Trigg Ellis


Merritt, Ralph Emerson


Lott, William Franklin


Mestrand, Paul Alfred


Lloyd, Dan T.


Miller, George R.


Lamb, Mirl


Miller, Lewis


Latier, Frank L.


Milligan, Roy Heap


Lederer, Carl Alfred


Miner, Parker


Lee, Thomas Martin


Montgomery, Elmer


Lewis, Eugene


Moore, Jewell


Lewis, Lucian L.


Morgan, Clifton H.


Liggett, Thomas A.


Morris, George


Lincoln, Albert Lloyd


Morrow, Raymond W.


Lincoln, Floyd Fred


Munkers, Redmond


Linder, Frederick Allen


Murphy, Charley A.


Lockridge, Meridith


Musbach, Henry E.


Logan, Sideny J.


McCarty, Henry F.


Loos, John C. Low, Q. D.


McCoy, Clarence Edward


Lyman, Guy Seymour


McCracken, Samuel Ray


McArthur, John Henry


Mccullough, G. A.


McClintic, William W.


McFall, A. Albert


McCormick, Robert Lee


McGinness, Strother


McCoy, Robert


McKee. Edwin James


McCroskie, Milo Thomas


McMullen, Luther V.


Mabe, Harry Gilbert


Mace, John H.


McFadden, William D. McGinness, John McIlvain, Jefferson Davis


Macumber, Walter


Mckinley Ross Mabe, Cecil Guy


Main, Roland A. Maltby, Burton


Lizar, Elmer


McConn, Bert


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Manuel, James Elbert Marshall, Freddie Martin, Isaac Roy Massey, Huron V. Means, Leo Henry Mershon, Oscar Leo Miles, Chester Miller, Howard Miller, Price


Mazzei, Settimo


Meredith, Wendell Tilton Merservey, Web Hull


Miller, Edward Everett Miller, Julius Barron


Miller, Wesley Allen


Minter, Lloyd Francis Monroe, Lon William


Moore, Daniel Lewis


Million, Fred B.


Moore, William M.


Mitchell, Clarence F.


Morris, Benjamin F.


Moore, Charles Francis


Morrison, Virgil Barnes


Moore, John M.


Moyer, Charles C.


Morgan, Frank


Munkers, Charles


Morris, Ralph Gilbert Mosby, Irvin L.


Musbach, Carl Fred


Musgrove, Dooley William


Munkers, Arry


Neff, Ray


Murray, Seldon Howe


Nelson, Herman P.


Musgrave, J. E.


Nokes, Albert


McClaslin, Harry


Norton, Elijah Hise


McClary, Elisha H.


Nutter, O'Fallon D.


McConnell, Clyde S.


Neidert, Otto W.


McCoy, Ralph McCrorey, Norman G.


Nolan, Harry Morrison


McFadden, LaVerne L.


Nutter, Frank L.


Nelson, Charles




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