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COOD ROADS.
In the matter of improved highways the county has made most creditable progress. This has proved an important contributing eause for the increased taxable values of the county. On the 18th day of April, 1911, a bond issue of $625,000 was voted for by the three magisterial distriets, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the State Highway Commission. The magisterial districts voted separately as to the amount each would expend on its roads. Jeffersonville District voted $200,000; Clear Fork District $250.000 ; and Maiden Spring Distriet, $175.000. Another election for issuing additional bonds was held and carried on the 4th of April, 1916.
Under the provisions of the second bond issue Jeffersonville District received $96.000; and Clear Fork District $155.900. Maiden Spring District voted in the election but declined to parti- pate in the proceeds of the bond issue. At a later date Clear Fork District issued bonds to the amount of $9.000 without authorization from the electorate of the county. The sum total of the bond issue for road purposes is $885.900.
Tazewell County's Bond Issue system is, perhaps, the most satisfactory that_could be devised. certain of the bonds maturing one year after date, some in two years, some in three years, et cet .. the last maturing in 1946. The county does not provide for nor carry a sinking fund, the current levies being sufficient to retire the bonds as they mature and pay the interest on balance of issue, the tax burden being fairly distributed over the years from date of issue to maturity of last lot of bonds. This system has proved to be most satisfactory.
Soon after the first bond issue was carried, active work on the county roads was begun ; and nearly all the proceeds of the several bond issues has been expended. As a result, the county now has
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135 miles of macadam roads, and 100 miles of improved dirt roads, or a total of 235 miles of improved roads. There still remains 285 miles of unimproved roads, there being a total of 520 miles of public roads in Tazewell County.
A splendid maeadam road has been completed from a point five miles east of the Russell County line to the eastern line of Tazewell County at Graham. This road practically follows the route of the old Cumberland Gap and Fineastle Turnpike, but with greatly improved grades. At the regular session of the Virginia
Scene in valley about a mile west of the court house, showing the modern road built on the location of the old Fincastle and Cumber- land Gap Turnpike. In the background Morris' Knob is visible. The photo from which the half-tone eut is made was made by A. M. Black, Tazewell's splendid photographer. It won first prize in a contest for prize of $1,500 offered by the Ladies' Home Journal, under the head- ing: "An Old Virginia Road."
General Assembly in 1919 the road from Cumberland Gap to Graham was designated as one of the State highways by the aet passed at that session of the Legislature. The road is now com- pleted, with the exception of the five miles in the west end of Tazewell County and a few short sections in Scott County.
Another modern highway follows the route of the Tazewell C. H. and Kentucky Turnpike to the head of Baptist Valley, and has been macadamized down that valley a distance of four miles. Similar roads have been built in other sections of the county; one from Cedar Bluff by Steelesburg, to intersect with the Cumberland Gap and Graham road at a point west of Midway; another from Witten's Mill to Tiptop; and one from Pocahontas to the head of Abb's Valley. Perhaps, the best road in the county follows the
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route of the old Tazewell C. H. and Fancy Gap Turnpike, from the forks of the road opposite the residence of the late Captain Wm. E. Peery, up the south branch of Clinch River to Gratton; thence crosses Rich Mountain, and passes into and through Burke's Garden. This is one of the most travelled and attractive roads in the county. In a few more years Tazewell will have one of the most complete and splendid systems of highways in our State.
In former years the county was celebrated for its number of saddle and draft horses. The improved highways have already nearly made travel on horseback obsolete, and the splendid saddle animals that for more than a hundred years had attracted buyers from all regions have nearly disappeared. Hundreds of automobiles have taken the place of saddle and carriage horses, and auto trucks are rapidly displacing the fine draft teams that were so long the pride of this people.
Buckle and other historians, who made civilization a theme, have expressed the conviction that climate, soil, and food are the three essential physical agents for creating a high degree of civi- lization in a community or nation. And these writers have affirmed that the most important product evolved from the essential physical agents is the accumulation of wealth. Their contention is, that without a wealthy leisure class there can be no large measure of knowledge and no intellectual class.
When the pioneer fathers came to the Clinch Valley they found here amply provided by nature the three basic essentials for erect- ing a highly civilized community-that is, climate, soil, and food. They utilized very successfully these natural agencies for estab- lishing comfortable homes for themselves and their families; and secured to their posterity the most priceless attributes of civiliza- tion, political and religious freedom. While accomplishing this, they were laying a firm foundation upon which their descendants and successors might erect the best type of civilization.
Class and caste were the disintegrating elements in the moral force and national character of all ancient civilizations. A similar defect was the controlling instrumentality in modern European civilization, which during a period of four recent years turned Con- tinental Europe into a bloody shambles; and threatened to uproot the excellent social fabric constructed by the fathers of our own beloved land.
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The extremes of wealth and poverty do not now exist and have never been existent in Tazewell. There are many comfortably wealthy men in the county; and, perhaps, half a dozen millionaires. But, with a population of 27,840 souls in the county, as shown by the eensus of 1920, there are only 53 paupers here. The paupers are of a class that are unable to work on account of the infirmities of age, or other physical eauses, and mental deficiency. Fifteen are entirely dependent and are maintained at the county farm, while thirty-eight are partially dependent and receive aid from the public funds. The county owns a valuable farm, situated one and a half miles east of the county seat, its estimated value being seventy-five thousand dollars. During the fiscal year which ended the 1st of July, 1919, the products of the farm amounted to $4,890; and the live stock on hand at that date was valued at $8,760. The annual expense for conducting the farm and maintaining the paupers is, approximately, $6,000. As long as present conditions continuc society here will be contented and prosperous; and, apparently, it will be best for the county to remain, as it always has been, pri- marily an agricultural community. Adherence to this system will give comfort and security to the energetic worker, and will not furnish asylum to the idler. God forbid, that Tazewell shall ever have a system with paupers at the base and idle rich at the top of the social scale. May its social system never be like that of modern England, of which Matthew Arnold affirmed: "Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, and bru- talizes our lower class."
Wealth, great wealth is now collectively possessed by the people of Tazewell. What will they do with it? Under the spell of modern civilization, sball the rising generation be trained to plaee a negligible value upon the instrumentalities of civilization that were recognized and utilized by the pioneer fathers; and be taught that money. position, power, idleness, and luxury are the prime essentials of an advaneed civilization? This is the gravest question the Christian world has to solve. What part will the people of Tazewell enact in its solution? Shall civilization continue to advance here on definitely true lines, or retrograde into a refined barbarism? Shall we continue to teach but neglect to practice the great social and political truths of Thomas Jefferson, embodied in the Virginia Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence ?
APPENDIX TO HISTORY OF TAZEWELL COUNTY
Names of Tazewell County men who served in the military and naval service of the United States during the World War, as shown by the Muster Roll of Tazewell County, which is made up from records of the Local Board of said county, and the list of volunteers furnished the clerk of said county by the Adjutant General of Virginia.
Quite a number of men outside of draft age volunteered, and up to the present time no record has been obtained showing the names of these men.
ARMY. WHITE.
Thomas Albert Adison, Robert Samuel Angles, Willis Carl Anderson, Marion Calvin Asbury, James Riley Able, William B. Absher, Gus Asbury, John Johnson Asbury, Joseph Andrew Amos, Edd Kelly Adison.
Charles Arthur Billips, John Robert Birklebach, Shade Creed Baldwin, Charley Wm. Blankenship, James Barnett, David Carl Beavers, Charlie Mose Beavers, Dan Brodskie, Charles Oata Bow- man, Homer Beavers, Steve Boray, Robert A. Billips, Nelson Henry Barker, Paris Brown, Sam Buchanan Bogle, Wm. Jasper Blanken- ship, Arthur Marvin Buskill, Posy Earl Burcham, James Robert Burress, Marion Bowman, J. Raymond Barnett, Martin Luther Bowling, Isaac C. Buchanan, Geo. W. Belcher, George Walter Beavers, James Brooks, Eugene Newton Burroughs, Pola Andrew Brooks, George Beavers, Shelburn G. Bruster, John Ward Baylor, George Thomas Baumgardner, William Benson, George Bandy, Peery Boothe, Roy Thomas Barrett, Roy Boyd, Charles G. Brown, Watts Baldwin, George Dewey Bowman, Arthur Samuel Beavers, Sidney Isaac Bowman, James Fred Brown, W. D. Brown, Gilbert Brinegar, Sidney Blankenship, Lawrence W. Blankenship, Cecil Calloway Bane, Erwin Bane, Tazie Belcher, Fayette Beavers, Grover Cleveland Barnett, Jesse Marvin Boyd, John George Black- T.H .- 43
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well, Bandy Boggess, Riffe Boggess, Stanley Lee Bowman, James Luther Beleher, Howard S. Bowman, Otis Lee Boothe, Lee Barrett, Sidney Bloch, James Bryant Burton, David Lonzo Bowman, Enoel Bayles, William Frank Baylor, Glenn Everett Beavers, Charles Thomas Boone, Sylvester Blankenship, Bryan William Barnett, James William Bowser, Earnest Brown Bales, Trube T. Bourne, Rees Richard Boone, Lawrence A. Barrett, William J. Bowser, Jasper Brewster.
Lewis H. Carbaugh, James Allen Clark, Joe Conley, John Clin- ton Coleman, Arnold Coles, John Carter, Nick Crist, William Arthur Coleman, William Otis Caldwell, Walter Preston Creasy, Robert Samuel Crabtree, James Robert Cregar, Alva Brittain Cregar, Chester Carter, Vinton Vietor Christian, Jesse Lee Coen, Claude Chrisman, Robert Marvin Crabtree, Samuel Clark, Daniel Frank Collins, Thomas Cochran, Jesse Ben Clark, Aaron Carter, Wiley Robinson Compton, William Cordill, William Carter, Fred B. Cordle, James Raleigh Compton, Roy Alexander Cohen, Vanee Witten Carter, John Willie Christian, Creed Frazier Catron, Wil- liam Cebard Cox, John Ed. Crockett, Jesse Walter Cregar, Avery M. Crabtree, Lewis R. Coulling, Edward Charles Clark, Charles R. L. Cruey, Arthur Cordle, Grover Campbell, Albert del. Castello, James Thomas Crouse, William Henry Cole, S. M. B. Coulling, Jr.
William Deskins, Luther Henry Dunnigan, Samuel Dillow, Charles Davis, Joseph Elliott Deaton, James Miller Davidson, Henry Albert Davis, George F. Deaton, Charles Smith Dalton, John Frank Daniel, James Henry Davis, Will Allis Dillon, Hasten Dingus, J. P. Davidson, Hugh Cornelius Davis, George Thomas Dillow, Robert Samuel Davis, Baxter Duncan, Alfred V. Dennen, Arthur Blaine Dunningan, James Dawson, Marshall Deaton, Charles Hugh Dudley.
Leland S. Edwards, Jesse Lee Epperson, Frank Chalmers Ellett, Walter Clinton Edwards, M. E. Eagle, Newton Harman Edwards, Haz. Eagle, William Ray Edwards, John Gideon Epperson, Fielden Kirk Earls.
Albert Pendleton French, Joseph Farris, Andrew Sid. Franklin, Charley Farmer, James Edgar Fields, Emory Lee Flanary, Wm. Chafe Faulkner, Jr., Robert Guy Flanary, Clinton Farmer.
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William Cosby Greever, Harvey George Gillespie, Charles Joseph Gose, George Thomas Gentry, Samuel William Green, Robert Griffith, Samuel Walton Graham, Hal Gordon Graham, Robert B. Gross, Robert R. H. Gillespie, Frederick William Glen- ville, John Arthur Graham, William G. Gillespie, John A. Graham, Charles M. Gillespie, Harvey Eli Green, Reuben Pendleton Green, Benjamin H. Griffith, Joseph W. Guess, Thomas Walter Gillespie, Julius Goodman, George Gydosh, Andro But Gussian, George Benoni Gose, Robert Felix Gillespie, Earnest Burton Gravely, Carnie J. Gillespie, Irby Gillenwaters.
Daniel Clayburn Hogston, James Stanley Horne, Roby Kellis Hill, Robert P. Harman, Edward Albert Holmes, Luther Hall, Ira Edward Horton, James Robert Harless, Lee Harman, Cary John Hodge, Hampton Hutson, Thomas Hankins, John Edd. Howery, Will Herald, George H. Harman, Frank R. Henderson, Roy Lee Hagy, Henry Thomas Haley, Harry A. Humphrey, Edward W. Hill, John Hunnel, Henry Mullins Hanshaw, Lee Helmandollar, Arthur Hunnel, Amos Hess, George C. Hooker, Ira E. Helton, Wil- liam Harman, Otto Herald, James Bishop Hays, Bryant Harman, Thomas T. Hewson, Hugh R. Hawthorne, Reese Hall, James Frank Hopkins, Thomas Albert Howery, William Harman, William Henry, Charles Dale Harman, Earl Preston Hall, Frazier Harman, Henry Hunt, Walter Lee Hankins, Charles Hughes, David Paul Harris, Charles Chester Hindley, Daniel Robert Harman, Timothy Hankins, Andrew J. Hall, Albert Claude Hankins, James Hess, William H. Harrison, Joseph Brown Heldreth, Irvin Ben Hodges, Paul Perry Hunter, John Clarence Heldretli. Lee Hoops, William Hall, Thomas Milton Harris, Sid. Harry, Robert L. Hoops, William Prevo Hager, Robert Arthur Harris, Thomas Hughes, Walter Helmandollar, George B. Houchins, J. E. Hurt, Harvey G. Harrison.
Henry Ingle.
George Raymond Jennings, Herbert Jackson, James William Jones, Walter I. Jenkins, Burl Jones, Marion I. Jackson, Eugene Johnson, John R. Jones, Thomas A. Jackson, Joseph C. Jones, Chesley Albert Jeter, Taylor Jackson, Joseph Elbert Johnson, Robert Lee Jones, Edward Lewis Jackson, Henry Alexander Jones, Robert C. Jackson.
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Joseph Frazier Kitts, William Gent Kiser, Fletcher Kiser, Wil- liam Thomas Keesee, Walter E. Kiser, Newton Roy Kinder, Claude G. Kitts, Oscar John Kachelries, Charles George Kinder, James Robert Kinder, William Frank Kinder, Johan Kenevar, Christian Thomas Kirk, Alonzo Hyatt Kelly, James G. Kelly, Jesse Moore Karr, Roy Howard Keister, Oscar Heath Keister, John Tyler Kee- see, Grover Leo Kinder, David Clyde Keister, Joe S. Kish, Jr.
James Crockett Lester, Charles Lawrence, Samuel Erastus Leffel, Robert Lockhart Lefler, William Allen Lee, Thomas H. Lambert, Adam Bittle Lambert, James Robert Lawrence, Jr., Clarence E. Lawrence, Christopher Lockwood, Titus Lambert, Wil- liam Eli Lockhart, Seldon Crockett Lambert, Robert Andrew Lethcoe, Abb Lambert, John Wyatt Lawrence, Robert Thomas Long, Robert Frazier Lambert, Channel A. Lawson, Crockett Lowe, Ewing Waters Lawson, Paris H. Lambert, Beverly D. Litz, John Cleveland Lambert, John W. Lawrence, William Whitt Lowe, James Truby Lambert, William S. Lockhart, Luther James Lank- ford, Walter D. Lovell, William Jordan Luke, William Albert Lawson, Arthur W. Lawson, Victor Hugo Lewis, Edd Herman Lowe, Sylvester Lowe, Fred Lambert, James E. P. Lockhart, George W. Lowe, Vess C. Lowe, Lindsay Lowe, T. O. Laird.
Robert Leslie Maxwell, William Music, Arthur Price Morton, Vinton Robert Moss. Hubert Pontell Meredith, Glenn White Martin, Joseph Anthony Macaro. Isaac Drayton Maxwell, Robert H. Mahood. Will Rees Murray. Thomas Lee May, Joe Melfa, Lee Myers, Edward A. S. Mitchell, William Leece May, Charles D. Mattox, James M. Moore, Paul Mallory, John M. Mobray, Walter Monk, William Mitchell, Jr., Thomas Augustus Marrs, Robert Meadows, David Acuff Mahone, Mark S. Mallory, Rees Munday, Marvin Edward Meadows, Columbus Moore Mothena, George W. Mitchell, James Archabald Moore, Samuel Davidson May, George . Spotts Moore, Thomas T. Moore, Charles Walter Moore, Morris Magrill, William Dudley Marrs. George Clarence Martin, Louis Cleveland Marshall, John Martin, Robert Owen Morgan.
Henry J. McGlothlin, Lindsay T. McGuire, Frazier Buford McMeans, Henry Guy Mckinney, Albert Lester McMeans, Eugene Lanoy McGinnis, Ellis V. McFarland, Archie Patton Mckenry,
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John McGuire, Samuel E. MeMullin, William E. MeCall, James Okey MeNeely, Lawrenee W. MeFarland, George Peery McGuire, Robert Daniel McCall, Charles Grant McGlothlin, Lorenzo A. McGlothlin.
Gordon Thomas Neel, Guy Henry Nash, Suddeth Walton Neel, Wiley Stuart Neal, Henry Clarence Neel, Fred Thomas Nash, James Corbett Neel, Ira Laey Neel, James Henry Neal, Levi Walker Neel, William Henry Neel, Kyle Nipper, John H. Newman, Robert Sidney Neel, George C. Nicewander, John Estil Neel, James Thornton Neel, James Alderman Newton, Wiley Newberry, George Nichols, Henry Guy Norman, William Herald Nixon, Lawrence O. Nelson.
William Harvey Osborne, Vista Osborne, Isiah Osborne, Neely Osborne.
Bart Edwin Pruett, William Henry Phillips, Charles George Powers, Howard Laey Peak, Clarenee Eugene Peery, Henry Porter, William Albert Peery, Kenneth C. Patty, Arehie Lee Pruett, Max- well A. Pruett, John Richard Peery, George E. Pruett, Walter Stuart Patrick, Charles Clarence Peery, Robert A. Pack, Bane Gustaff Peery, Walter Sherman Patrick, Lewis Parker Pruett, Robert C. Pack, William Pieree, Augustua Peery, Rush Floyd Pauley, Robert Paek, William C. Pruett, Walker Puckett, Walter Price, Mustard Pruett, Peter William Peterson, Leftridge C. Patton, Osear Brown Pruett, Archie S. Powers, Garland Peery, Thomas Allen Peery, Clarence Henry Peery, William E. Peery, Jr., Arelie Riley Pruett, Frank Pierce Piekle, Andrew MeDonald Peery, Wil- liam Proffit, James Prophet, J. O'Keefe Peery, Lawrence S. Peak, Roscoe Paek.
Byron Franklin Quillin, William L. Quesenbury.
Rees Melvin Russell, William Everett Riley, James Arthur Riley, Witten Rueker, Floyd Repass, James William Rich, Creed Rose, Henderson J. Ruthledge, James Madison Roark, Jesse Marvin Rye, Walter Thompson Rye, Frank Rateliff, Guy A. Rosebaum, John Gibson Repass, Carlile T. Rees, Charles B. Rosseau, Arthur Reedy, Leonard M. Reedy, John Thomas Roten, Sam P. Riley, Laey Johnson Repass, Herbert Henry Rosenbaum, Maxwell A. Riley.
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James Alma Sluss, Ben Stacy, Norman Clarenee Smith, Robert Cline Sparks, Thomas Lewis Shawver, Dudley Gratton Shrader, Luther Areh Settle, James Claude Sayers, Washington Lee Sayers, Walter Stuart, Curtis L. Shufflebarger, Sam Riley Smith, Sidney H. Shell, Horton Shepherd, William John Selney, Samuel S. Summers, Milton T. Simmons, Elisha Earl Stevenson, Everett Sluss, Charles Arnold C. Salyers, Hugh Thomas Stevenson, Louis Jackson Seott, Jonah F. Southern, Charles Whitt Sparks, Pearl Henry Shreve, John William Shawver, John Robert Saunders, John C. Steelc, Alexander G. StClair, Floyd Henry Stevens, John Short, Jackson Sluss, James Clinton Sturgess, George W. Steele, Wash Lee Sayers, James Allen Smith, Ballard N. Short, William Newton Shuffle- barger, Robert Lee Spurgeon, Daniel Gratton Shrader, Clay Scyphers, Charles J. Stephenson, Joe R. Switalski, Meredith Strouth, Edgar Marion Steele, Frederick Wm. St.Clair, Robert Edgar Simpson, Rex E. Steele, Lueien Snodgrass, Lueian Smith, Thomas Ford Shamblin, Charles Russell Stinson, Geo. W. Simms.
Leck Andrew Thompson, Clarence Kenny Turner, Roy Martin Triplett, Mercer Elliott Thomas, John Henry Tabor, John Davis Tabor, William Andrew Turley, William Erastus Tickle, William James Tiller, Roy Ashland Thompson, Adam Stephen Tabor, Greever Taylor, C. W. Thompson, Pose William Thomas, Robert Samuel Taylor, Walter Lee Taylor, Brown Taylor, Emory Lee Taylor, Foster J. Thompson, Benjamin H. Thompson, James Raleigh Twigg, Raleigh Totten, Oday C. Thompson, Sidney Taylor Tickle, Samuel Eli Turner, Eugene Thompson.
Flem Vandyke, Pearl Vanee, Charley Crockett Vanee, Thomas Vandyke, Jesse W. Vernon, Doak Vandyke, John Alexander Vandykc.
Martin Wilson, Dale West, Leck Evans Whitt, Charles Waldron, William Walter Watkins, Edward Whitman, Roby F. Wiles, Beverly Wade, Robert Johnson Wimmer, Samuel Henry Wimmer, Adam Greene Wagner, James Widner, Emory Wilson, Arthur Wimmer, Clarence Edwin Watkins, Joseph Shannon Wynne, John Thomas Worsham, George R. Walker, James Thomas Wilson, Thomas Marion Waldron, James Robert Whitley, Kent W. Witten, Roseoe Riner Wall, Fugate Campbell White, Lilburn Benjamin Wilson,
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Will Samuel Witt, Spencer B. Warner, Samuel Luther Whitehead, William Welch, Kelly G. Wright, Andrew J. (of Robert) Witten, Frank Estil Williams, David Oscar Williams, John Clarence Whitt. Wilk Otis West, John Carl Witt, Elias Whitt, John Aaron Waldron, Arthur Monroe Woody, Archie Zaek Whitt, Albert Glenn Wynn, Tom Wilson, Robert A. Walker, Joseph E. Whitt, Hobart William Webb, MeKinley Wiles, W. P. Wyatt, Jesse Andrew Woods, Eugene B. Witten, Jack W. Witten.
Charles W. Yates, James Richard Young, David William Yost, Henry Peery Yost, Clarence Kelly Yost, James Harvey Yates, Edward Roy Yost, Charles George Yost, Levi Jesse Yates, Paul Richard Yost.
George L. Zimmerman. Ignatz Zachosky.
Total 628.
NAVY.
WHITE.
Charles R. Brown, Jr., William Jefferson Brown, William Arnold Burton.
A. J. Collins, Samuel William Carter, Bishop Hicks Coon, Paul Crockett.
James R. Doak,
Jesse F. Earnest.
Willie Guy French.
Jesse Samuel Gillespie, Charles Greer, Paul Gydosh.
Will Neal Hurley, Eugene Claude Harman, Rufus Crockett Harrison, Jolın Jasper Henkle, Daniel Henry Harrison.
James Vernon Johnson, Everett Johnson, Roscoe Kelly Jones.
David Roscoe Kitts, Robert Ernest Kitts.
Robert Lee Longworth, Sam. J. Lubliner, Thomas Lawrence Lowe.
Charles Franklin Medley, Robert Henry Moore, Thomas Fair- fax Martin, Cecil Martin, Clarence Myers.
Walter MeGhee, George Gordon MeBride, George William MeCall, Harvey Grat MeMullin. Henry L. McCall, William Lewis MeMullin, George O. MeGuire.
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Bud Neal, Vance Clayton Neeee, James Curtis Neel.
James Walter Peery, Haynes Graham Preston, Raymond Sur- face Peery, George Armstead Pobst, Cornwell A. Peverall, Samuel C. Peery, Jr., Earl MeMinn Pruett, Charles Fudge Peery.
Grady Lee Ross.
Sherman Lee Slaughter, Robert I. Sarver, Thomas Monroe Sayers, Rees Bowen Thompson, John Thompson, Arthur Taylor.
Everett Woods, Beverly Walton White.
Total 53.
MARINES.
WHITE.
Wm. Byrd May Chapman.
Henry Franklin Gilmer.
Thomas Robert Harrison, Mathew Butler Hammit, Robert Smith Hopkins.
Cecil Addison Mowles, John Earnest McMullin.
James Beverly Neal.
Eugene Pierce, Wm. Donreath Poindexter, Joseph Everett Porter.
Alderson Sexton. Kennerly Sexton, Gillespie R. Smith.
Andrew J. Witten.
Total 15.
S. A. T. C.
WHITE.
Wm. Gordon Bottimore. Benjamin Elbert Bates, Rufus Brittain, Samuel E. Baylor.
William Pamplin Crabtree, Thomas Healy Campbell, Robert V. Crockett.
Tyler McCall Frazier.
Charles Dewey Garland, Robert Gratton Gillespie.
James Hudson Hufford, Walter Henry Hankins, Joseph N. Harker, Jr.
Joseph N. Johnson. Hubert Elmer Kiser. James Ed. Litz, Thomas Wright Lawford.
Harry Fleming Macom, Barns Thompson Moore. Vietor W. McCall.
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John Milton Newton, Jr., William Alexander Neel.
Joseph Elmo Peery, Lawrence Russell Painter, Russell Barns Painter, James Sidney Peery.
John Charles Scott, S. Houston St. Clair, Tom Ganaway Spratt. Lacy Paul Wallace, Robert B. Williamson, James Albert Wagner, Dewey Clyde Wynn, Thomas Rawl Witten, Herbert Ward. Total 35.
ARMY.
COLORED.
Burnett Armstrong, Irving Armstead, Lee Alexander, Argro Armsteard, George Allen.
Clarence Blackstone, John Robert Baldwin, Herbert Odis Bane, Arthur G. Bradshaw, Will Bradford, Robert Brooks, William Boat- man, Yoeman Braxton, Otis Butler, Emory Bailey, Charley Barnes, Sonny Branson, John Burford, Jim Ballinger, F. J. Brown, Kirt Bailey, Oscar Edward Brown.
Herbert Cox, Rufus Conner, Henry Crockett, Emerson Carson, John Coulter, Levi Clark, Clarence Charlton, John Warren Carroll, Frank F. Carroll, Herbert B. Cross, Dan Crider, Robert Davis, Eugene Franklin, Frank Fuller, Leigha Ford, William Fleming, William McKinley Ford.
Ben Glenn, Anbray John Gant, Charles Green, Edward Gate- wood, Clarence Gant, Stuart Gillespie, Lacy George, Clarence W. Goodman, Forace Gallman, Edd Graham, Sellers Gilliam, Walter Green, Lacy Goodman.
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