This is a list of the many World War II Richwood Soldiers names from the billboard that stood on the Big Mill property across from the Park Place Esso in the early 40's. A special thanks to Hanna Bennett for copying them from an old Nicholas County Republican Paper. Do the last two mayors of Richwood remember any of them? I do Zenis Amick, Allen W. Bailes, Herman D.Bennett, Woodrow W. Bell, Cecil R. Bess, Casper Breckenridge, Claude L. Bryant, Sam O. Burkholder, David L. Casto, Chauncy R. Champion, Lloyd G. Collins, Donald H. Copeland, Perry P. Cury, Clifton E. Dennis Jr., Guy R. Dillon, James C. Dobson, Orville Dorsey, Luther Faith, Robert Fidler, David D. Foster, James A Foster, Charles O. Frame, Morris J. Gray, Haven Hemrick, Heber E. Harlow, Walter M. Hicks, Robert G. Hoover, Rosco Hoover, Vestill Hoover, Carl O. Horsey, Jamie D. Huffman, Jessie C. Hughart, Rosco S. Homer, Joe Hughes Jr., Robert W. Hughes, Victor H. Humphries, William B. Ignatious, Haley L. Johnson, Warren S. Johnson, Charles D. Keenan, Russel Keenan, Claude O. Kinchaid, Gene J. Kncely, John M. Legg, J. Harry Legg, Joseph H. Legg, Theodore N. Legg, Virginia L. Link, Cleon W. Long, Ross E. Marks, Glenn D. Marsh, Tommy C. Mclaughlin, Clyde McClung, Jack McClung, Roy McClung, Gilbert W. Milan, Carl Mourey, Bert J. Moyer, Harley C. Neff, Hazel Nicholas, Willard Nicholson, Arthur B. Norman, R. Dell O’Dell, Destil Phillips, Isaac W. Pritt Jr., Wyatt R. Pratt, James D. Radcliff, Sammy T. Rowan, Donzel R. Rose, Wade Williams Jr.
These are names found on cemetery records. These men are WWII veterans buried in Richwood West Virginia. James E. Adkins, Joseph H Andrik, Loyd B. Bailey, James A. Barber, Romie F. Barnhouse, Estile R. Belcher, Oran G. Bragg, Antone B. Chamberlin, Gideon Chapman, Leonard B. Coe, Hansford S. Coffie, Arnold Comer, Clinton J. Cook, Harry B. Cottrill, Woodrow P. Critz, Bruce W. Cutlip, John D. Hicks, Paul H. Duffy, Curtis A. Trescott, Wallace E. Hefner, Emmet F. Goad, Richard S. Gregory, Lloyd B.Hitt, Glen B. Facemire, Mancil H. Facemire, John W. Husk, Clarence A. Horsey, Gerald C. Friend, Thomas O. Williams, Norman Ernest Slone, John D.Stephenson, Harry E. Stirgill, Samuel J. Awartz, James S.Sweeney, Ronald H. Tinney, George Umber, Arthur P. Undrewood, Willard W. Walkup, Johnny M. Ward, Baron Weese, Charles B. Williams, Donald H. Wilson, Ralph Windle, Nathan H. Young, Woodrow Young, Edward Kenneth Simms, Tracy L. Legg.
Many of these names are on the picture of the soldiers that were thrown in the hole and covered with dirt. Sad, would you agree. W.D. Mullins, Collins G. Lloyd, Phillips Destil, Naamon Overbaugh, Edward Overbaugh, Julious Overbaugh, Tobe Overbaugh, Edwin B. Pritt, Lanzy Webb, Dale Lawley, *Bob Smith, Leo Walkup McKinny, H.McKenny, E.O. Walter, T.O. Young, T. A. Young, T. S. Cummings, Wilbert King, Wilber Truman, A. A. Milland, W R. Sears, I. P. Sears, O. N. Hicks, T. E. Link, Ruth Gray, T. E. Sparks, L.L. Sparks, W. E. Elswick, Hanks Sargent, W. Wallace, E.Hefner, Emmett F.Goad, Richard S. Gregory, Lloyd B. Hitt, Glen B. Facemire, Maxcil H. Husk, Gerald C. Friend, Loyd Bailey, Estle R.Belcher, Oran G. Bragg, Harry H. Chapman, Hansford S. Coffie, Jack N. Hess, Cecil Hoover, Grover C. Hoover, Lacy W. Hilton,
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