Veterans honored
The graves of 234 veterans of the Revolutionary War through World War I in Jonesboro Cemetery were decorated with American flags during the weekend of Oct. 12-14.
This was part of the Jonesboro bicentennial celebration during ColorFest Weekend.
Volunteers from the Jonesboro Bicentennial Committee, Boy Scout Troop 44 and PAST placed the flags on the graves Thursday evening, Oct. 11, and they remained there through Sunday afternoon, Oct. 14.
The flags were on loan from the American Legion in Anna and the Mound City National Cemetery.
There are two veterans of the Revolutionary War (1776-1783), five veterans of the War of 1812 (1812-1815), two veterans of the Black Hawk War (1832), 16 veterans of the Mexican War (1846-1848), 100 veterans of the Civil War (1861-1865), five veterans of the Spanish-American War (1898), and 104 veterans of World War I (1917-1918) buried in Jonesboro Cemetery.
Special recognition is given to these veterans because of the focus on Jonesboro’s 19th century pioneer heritage during the celebration of the town’s 200-year anniversary.
World War I veterans are being particularly recognized, as this year is the centennial of the signing of the armistice on Nov 11, 1918, which ended World War I.
Veterans Buried in Jonesboro Cemetery
Revolutionary War-World War I
Compiled by Darrel Dexter
Sept. 2, 2018
Revolutionary War
George Brown
Jacob Frick
War of 1812
Michael Craver
George Grear
John Shaffer Hacker
Thomas Sams
Henry Livingston Webb
Black Hawk War
James Morgan
Henry Livingston Webb
Mexican War
Charles Barringer
Henderson Brown
Sidney Smith Condon
Abraham Cover
Adam Cruse
Henry Barnhart Flaugh
Jacob Grear
Henry Clay Hacker
John Shaffer Hacker
John C. Hunsaker
Andrew Jackson Nimmo
James J. Provo
Joshua Roberts
Amalphus W. Simons
James Walker
Henry Livingston Webb
Civil War
George W. Adams
James E. Allsup
Benjamin H. Anderson
Andrew J. Bailey
Charles Barringer
Al. Edward Beisswingert
Robert L. Bennett
William L. Bridwell
James C. Brooksher
Alex Brower
David Brown
James Loewallen Brown
William A. Brown
Armstead Butler
William A. Campbell
William Giles Campbell
Robert Cathey
Charles Shankland Chase
John D. Chester
Martin Chester
Charles W. Cook
Samuel W. Cook
Abraham Cover
William H. Corbin
Thomas Calvin Cozby
Monroe Carroll Crawford
Alexander H. Crowell
Charles R. Curtis
George W. Custer
Francis M. Davidson
Calvin H. Davis
James J. Dillon
Andrew Jackson Dillow
Joseph Madison Dillow
Adolphus Dishon
Eli Douglas
Henry Douglas
George W. Elms
Joel Robert English
James Evans
William M. Ferguson
William G. Ferrell
Mr. Ferry
Moses J. Fray
Wm. Monroe Fullenwider
Benton Green
William Griffith
Thomas Louis Harris
Henry H. Hoss
John C. Hunsaker
Willis Benton Hunsaker
Abraham Collins Inman
George W. Irwin
Jackson Keller
William Kersey
Charles Klutts
Joseph L. Kurkey
Alfred Lane
John P. Law
Robert E. Lee
William Carroll Lence
Samuel M. P. McClure
John Jasper McIntosh
Paul Miller
John A. Morris
John M. Moyer
Richard C. Nash
Eli Newsom
Andrew Jackson Nimmo
Fred Oliver
Squire Fulton Pender
Thomas Morford Perrine
Jacob Franklin Phillips
Jacob Houston Poole
James Warren Provo
Jerome Provo
Jasper Rader
Robert Reiss
Leopold Ritter
David Riley Sanders
Charles Andrew Schneider
Michael Schoettinger
George W. Schuchardt
Robert Thomas Shipley
Jacob Shy
James R. Slaughter
William Riley Smiddy
Matthew Gillespie Stokes
Benjamin Franklin Sullivan
Silas C. Toler
Benjamin Franklin Treese
Henry Verble
Mr. Walker
Harvey Limes Walter
Thomas J. Watkins
L. Watson
Henry Livingston Webb
Joseph Elleson Wilkerson
Jesse W. Williford
Richard P. Winn
Spanish-American War
Ephraim Jefferson Dillow
William M. Hurst
Richard LeRoy Jarvis
William S. Jenkins
Frederick E. Meyer
World War I
Alvin Wesley Adams
Harry Dee Albert
William McKinley Allsup
James Arthur Ashley
John Atwood
Louis Emil Balance
Charles Albert Bare
Euness America Barker
Paul Charles Barringer
Rudolph Charles Bauer
Leo Konrad Bernhard
Angus Winfield Blackstone
George Leonard Bolio
Guy Rufus Bowen
Clarence Edmund Britton
Arthur Brown
Francis Asbury Brown
Frank George Brown
George Stanley Brown
Ira Lee Brown
Trunie Joseph Brown
George Robert Cavaness
Frank Thomas Caviness
Dallas Britton Clendenin
Merle Bundy Cozby
Elbert Dallas
Jake F. Daubs
Charles Leon Dillow
Charles M. Draper
Rduolph Gustave Duschl
John English
Lawrence Allen Farris
George Griffith Ferguson
Perry C. Foster
John Jackson Fox
Wm. Jennings B. Freeman
Coney Frick
Dan Frick
Fred Watson Frick
Tulley E. Frick
John Thurman Frost
Ernest Paul Grabow
George Harold Grear
Roy Herbert Gregory
Harry Edwin Hacker
Carl Anson Halterman
Claud Charles Heilig
Henry Delbert Hinkle
Edward H. Hubbs, Sr.
Marion Orlen Jobe
Ray. Wallace Karraker
Albert Kinder
Elvis Lee Knupp
Claude Lindsey
Edwin Burke Lingle
Grover Bismarck Lyerly
Charles Waverly Manees
Charles Everette Mathis
George Preston Mathis
Louis Charles McDaniel
George Anthony Meine
William Ernest Meyer
Harry Ralph Michaels
Elbert Leron Miller
Paul J. Misenhimer
George Donald Morgan
William Carol Morgan
Dennis Elsworth Murray
John Andrew Navin
Christ E. Nickles
Cecil Farrin Norris
Henry Conrad Otten
Arthur Elmer Owen
Albert Ernest Phillips
William Hezzie Phillips
Carl Pickett
Sebern Olin Pickett
Thomas Hugh Plemon
Charles Van Powell
Robert Carroll Reiss
Herbert Rendleman
Edward Sidney Rinehart
Karl David Sanders
Thomas Jefferson Sanders
John Adam Schlenker
William Ray Slone
Winfield Eugene Smick
Ernest H. Smith
Ira M. D. Smith
Roy Hess Smith
William Hampton Stacy
Raymond Adrien Stokes
Forest Henry Stoner
David Isaac Sullivan
Lewis Anderson Terpinitz
Thomas Bouton Tibbets
Robert R. Turner
Samuel Weiss
Elmer Kenneth Whitley
Emmett Frank Williford
John Floyd Williford
Fountain Elvis Winn
Henry Edwin Woods
Edd Young