Names of 61 Fallen in World War I on Robeson County War Dead Plaque, 1919

The Robeson County War Dead 1919 Plaque at the Robeson County Court House, Lumberton, was a painted wooden panel with a cathedral like scene of columns that formed three high arches. Each arches contained words: The Call, The Answer, and The Epitaph. The plaque listed 45 white, 12 indian and 4 colored. It deteriorated over time and was replaced in 1939 with a bronze plaque. Additional names and spelling corrections were made to the replacement and one name on the 1919 plaque, James McNeil, is not on the replacement. It was dedicated March 12, 1919.

The Call

This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men’s hearts wait upon us, men’s lives hang in the balance, Men’s hopes call upon us to say what we will do.

Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward looking men, to my side. God helping me I will not fail them if they will but council and sustain me.

--Woodrow Wilson

The Answer

White

George E. Galloway

Charles Hall

Carson Chason

Donnie Sutton

Edgar Lovette

Coy Britt

E. Lathrop Austin

Murdoc McRae

Alva Ivey

Benjamine Carter

Marvin J. Odum

Ed. J. Pope

Geo. Lawson

John H. Walker

Sam McLaughlin

Duncan G. Shaw

John A. McLean

Alfred Oliver

Herbert Watson

James Collins

Daniel Marsh

Lonnie Proctor

Casper Stone

Henry Barr

Edwin V. Johnson

O.B. O’Brien

D.B. Purcell

Edmund Britt

Walter L. Beasley

James McNeil

Martin L. Stuart

Lloyd Pittman

G.H. Marsh

Gus Norton

Atlas Johnson

James E. Smith

William S. Hyatt

Archie Gillespie

Ellis Tyner

Raymond Evers

Willis Allen Lee

Archie Gillespie

E. Dawson Bullock

Claude E. Phillips

Indian

Ellis Hardin

Calvin B. Lowery

William R. Oxendine

Preston Locklear

Harvey Oxendine

Winslow Locklear

Addinall H. Lockey

Golden Oxendine

Lonnie Hunt

Garfield Lowery

Jake Edwards

W.R. Oxendine

Colored

Arthur Rozier

Zeddie Robenson

Marshall Pitman

Lacy H. McCallum

The Epitaph

Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Paltria Mori

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all the day long.

Deut. 28:32

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13

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