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Van Buren County War Memorials

Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas

 

 

1861 C.S.A. 1865
Erected by the Mary Lee Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Battles
Oak Hill - August 10, 1861
Elk Horn - March 6 - 8, 1861
Prairie Grove - December 7, 1862

Capt. S. Churchill Clarke
Missouri Battery No. 2
Killed at Elk Horn
March 6, 1862
Aged 20 Years.


He wins the most who honors saves
Success is not the test. Ryan
Fate denied them victory, but crowned them with glorious immortality.

To Our Beloved Confederate Dead
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Indian Territory

 

Crawford County Vietnam Memorial
Remember those who served and those who died.

Killed in Action
Maj. Walter Hugh Moon
Capt. Jimmy Cartwright
Lcpl. Roger Dale Cecil
Lcpl. Billy Dale Livingston
Ssgt. Samuel Ray Nixon
Pfc. Jewel Lee Rainwater
Gmg1. Arthur C. Williams Jr.
Capt. William Dale Nixon
Pfc. William Haskell Smock
Capt. Alexander Johnson Jr.
Pfc. Boyce Dale Burgett
1Lt. William Robert Wilson
Pfc. John Charles Guire
Sp/4 James David Housely
Sgt. Jimmy Don Smith
En2 Henry Vernon Closser
SPC4 Richard Bert Bruce

 

In memory of
Merle D. Hay
Thomas Enwright
James B. Gresham

They were the first members of the Expeditionary Army of the United States in France to die that we might live stricken on the field of glory,
November 3, 1917.

Dulse et decorium est pro patria mori.
Originally erected by Sam Chew, November 1917.