This is the roll of Macon’s honored dead.
About their names today we place no mourning lines of heavy black.
For the bitter grief, the poignant hurt, of war-time tragedy are one. The scars alone remain.
And in their stead has come a heritage of pride and confidence: Price in Macon County’s past and a serene confidence in her future.
Pride that Macon County could give to the world boys who could die leke men in a cause they believed to be just; and confidence that a people that could produce such men as were the valiant dead of Macon, can conquer, too, the problems of the future.
This is Macon’s roll of soldier dead. Fighting—with a smile upon young lips, we choose to believe—they died.
John Littlefield Crawford
Erwin Patton Dowdle
Norris Edwards
Harley Dewey Henderson
Victor Horn
Beman Jennings
Sam Mason
Charles McKinley McCracken
Charles Henry McPherson
Alfred McNally Slagle
Joseph Shnepherd
Lewis K. Stiles
Will Z. Taylor
Pritchard Vinson
“To us, from falling hands they threw
The torch.”
Can we break faith?
Ours the task today of LIVING as they died, that the world may be made a better place in which to live.
From the front page of the Franklin Press, Nov. 11, 1926
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