WWI Memorial

Winston-Salem

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Description: This plaque of copper or bronze, aged and oxidized to green over the years, sits mounted to a low granite pylon. The granite pylon has a slightly scalloped top, and a flagpole, most likely part of the original commemoration, sits just behind the marker. Listing the names of those fallen, the plaque commemorates the men from Forsyth County who died during World War I.

Images: Plaque

Inscription:
1917 1918 / IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF / THE FORSYTH COUNTY MEN / WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE / IN THE WORLD WAR /

Clinton A. Anderson / William M. Bazemore / Jim Bennett / Clyde Bolling / Frank J. Brewer / Isaac L. Brown / Sam Chambers / James R. Cook / Horace B. Connelly / James Cottingham / Herbert Crighton / Samuel Crews / Germie Crutchfield / Wade R. Davis / John Sidney Doty / John G. B. Duvall / Addison Eddings / Ben C. Elliott / Ben C. Ellis / Will Farris / Bud Gentry / Rex Graham / William Theodore Gray / John W. Griffith / William Graham Harper / James Harris / Charles L. Hastings / Walter R. Hill / Alonzo Holly / James Hooper / Alonzo Howie / Clifton Irey / Clark Johnson / Clyde Dalton Johnson / William B. Johnson / Sid Vestal Kapp / Cecil F. King / Lendo S. Kinney / Charles Frederick Lane / Reid Alexander Lyons / William E.Macy / Ernest F. Martin / Joe Henry McDaniel / Asa McWhirter / Arthur Mickey / Ballard Miller / Ernest R. Morgan / Jesse O'Mara / Alonza G. Pack / Carl Clark Paff / Charles R. Pegg / William Pegram / Eugene Rachel / Grant Wellington Rector / Rudy M. Reid / John T. Ring / Paul E. Shore / Morris Lawson Slaughter / Walter P. Smith / Albert N. Spaugh / George W. Spears / Paul Evans Sprinkle / Robert G. Tate / Herbert S. Turrentine / Trossy Gorrell Wall / Ernest L. Wilkinson / Robert Caldwell Williamson / Walter R. Wilson / John Willis Young /

THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED MAY 30, 1921 / BY / THE WOMEN™S CLUB OF WINSTON-SALEM / AND / THE CLYDE BOLLING POST N255 AMERICAN LEGION

Dedication date: 5/30/1921

Materials & Techniques: Granite marker, copper or bronze plaque

Sponsor: The Women's Club of Winston-Salem; The Clyde Bolling Post N255 American Legion.

Subject notes: The monument was dedicated in 1921 to memorialize the men from Forysth County recently lost during World War I.

Location: The monument is located on the grounds of the historic Forsyth County Courthouse. It sits at the southwestern corner of the building, at the intersection of North Liberty and West 3rd Streets.

Landscape: The monument sits on a small strip of grass flanked by trees and shrubs.

City: Winston-Salem

County: Forsyth

Subjects: World War I

11 July 2014 | Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina