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AVERY'S TOLL OF DEAD AND MISSING |
The names of the 43 Avery Countians who paid with their lives are listed below.
Symbols used in connection with each name listed have the following meanings: KIA --
killed in action; DOW -- died of wounds; DOI -- died of injuries; DNB (Non-battle); FOD --
Finding of death under public law 490, 77th Congress; and M -- Missing. |
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Pvt. Harry R. Buchanan, KIA
Pvt. Jack E. Buchanan, KIA
Capt. Carl T. Bumgarner, DNB
Pfc. Bernie E. Burleson, KIA
Pvt. Henry F. Burleson, KIA
Pvt. Jack B. Burleson, KIA
Pfc. Jack M. Calloway, KIA
Pvt. William E. Calvert, KIA
T-5 Charlie W. Cantrell, DOW
Pfc. Tommy Cuthbertson, KIA
Cpl. Ernest Davis, DNB
Pvt. Ivory Davis, DNB
S-Sgt. David L. Haga, KIA
S-Sgt. Willard R. Fields, DNR
Sgt. Carson M. Guy, DNB
S-Sgt. Albert R. Harmon, FOD
Pvt. Thurman L. Henson, KIA
Sgt. Lawrence E. Hicks, DNB
Pfc. Jim Hopson, DNB
Pfc. George W. Horney, KIA
Second Lt. William G. Houston, DOI
Pvt. Jerry W. Hughes, KIA
T-5 Jewel Johnson, DOI
Sgt. Robert L. Joiner, DNB
Pfc. Earl D. Keller, KIA
Pvt. Ray S. King, DNB
Pvt. William C. Lisbon, DNB
Pvt. James L. Michael, DNB
Cpl. Robert R. Norman, KIA
Cpl. George L. Ferry, DNB
T-Sgt. Howard J. Phillips, KIA
Pvt. Listen A. Prather, KIA
Pfc. Jesse Rolfe, KIA
First Lt. William E. Shomaker, M
First Lt. Earl K. Stamey, FOD
Pfc. William H. Sudderth, KIA
Pvt. Paul T. Swift, DNB
Pvt. James L. Tollie, DNB
Pvt. Dayton H. Vance, KIA
Pfc. Elbert J. Vance, KIA
Pvt. Rondba L. Walters, KIA
S-Sgt. Joseph L. Wiseman, FOD
Pat Ray, drowned with sinking ship. |
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On December 4, 1917, the body of Pvt. Harry R. Buchanan, first veteran to be returned
to Avery County from an overseas cemetery, was buried with full military honors at Yellow
Mountain cemetery, between Plumtree and Spear. Before removal, he had been buried in the
Henri Chappelle cemetery in Belgium. He had enlisted in the Army on June 30, 1944, served
with the 310th Infantry, 78th Division, and was killed at Schmedt, Germany on February 14,
1945.
Major Thomas W. Ferebee The man who, on August 5, 1945, dropped the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima, Major Thomas W. Ferebee, son of W. F. Ferebee, of Mocksville, North Carolina,
after graduating from Mocksville High School, entered Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, on
September 17, 1938, and graduated there on June 3, 1940. He ranked only 65th in a class of
82. He took a Liberal Arts Course which included 104 Bible, 114 Chemistry, 113 Economics,
103 English, 115B Hygiene and 102 Physical Education. In his senior year at Lees-McRae,
which is a junior college, he had 204 Bible, 203 English, 128 French, 106 History, 105
Mathematics and 202 Physical Education.
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