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PHOTO GALLERY:  VETERANS
Honoring Etowah's Veterans



​Revolutionary War and Civil War Veterans are presented alphabetically first, followed by all other Veterans. 


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 Please submit material to honor an Etowah  Veteran  at any  time.

Entries may be updated as documented information becomes available.

~  Revolutionary War and Civil War Veterans, and the cemeteries where they are buried  ~
Source:  hendersonheritage.com
Revolutionary War



Old Beulah Baptist Cemetery:
  • Joseph Henry, Patriot
        (headstone pictured below)
Civil War - Confederate
(from Henderson County at time of war)

Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery:
  • Fletcher, William D. Pinkney

Oak Forest Cemetery:
  • Brock, Reuben
  • Orr, Gideon

Old Beulah Baptist Church:
  • Aiken, Archibald
  • Aiken, Lewis Leander
  • Morgan, Stephen Johnson

Pleasant Grove Baptist Cemetery:
  • Orr, John L.
  • Thomas, James L.
Civil War - Union
(from Henderson County at time of war)

Justus Family Cemetery:
  • Justus, Jesse Richardson
  • Justus, William Riley

Oak Forest Cemetery:
  • Weese, John W.

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Monument In Honor of
Union Soldiers and their Families
Henderson & Transylvania Counties
erected 1985 in Etowah
by Henderson County native
James Baskam King and Friends







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Joseph Henry, Revolutionary War Patriot

4 March 1763, Ireland - 20 July 1840

One of the founding pioneers of the Etowah Valley, Henry owned large amounts of land throughout Henderson County.   His burial site and Revolutionary War marker are at Old Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery, Pleasant Grove Road & Mt Pleasant View.  Henry served as a private under Col. William Graham  and later under Capt. Lofton.  His parents were Thomas Henry (1719-1787) and Isabella Martha Shields (1728-1821).


text source:
hendersonheritage.com  Revolutionary War Patriots


~  Veterans of Later Wars  ~
  • Arthur Frank Dalton
  • James  Cecil  Duncan
  • ​Thomas Edward Duncan
  • William Hood Gash
  • Winbourne Lee Gash
  • Pierre Mallett
  • Ray Edward Parkinson
  • Additional names to be added.
Material to honor an Etowah Veteran may be submitted to the website at any time.
Entries may be updated as documented information  becomes available.

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Arthur Frank Dalton - U. S. Air Force, Captain
b.  4 November 1921, Etowah NC          d.  June 2009, Gastonia  NC

WWII
48th Fighter Group, 492nd Squadron, flew P47s
Normandy Invasion

"...Most of us scheduled to fly could not sleep.  We spent the night looking at our watches, wondering why it took so long for the night to end.  Just before daylight twelve of us took off carrying 500 lb bombs.  We flew at 9000 ft., which was our assigned altitude because so many planes were in the air..."

Service Record & Medals, tbd

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DUNCAN BROTHERS
James Cecil Duncan -  U. S. Army,  Technical Sergeant
b.  8  May  1920, Etowah NC         d. 10  May 2009,  Brevard  NC

Served 1942 - 1945
Company "B" 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion

WWII
​Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe
EAMET Campaign Medal with three Bronze Service Stars
 Purple Heart with one Oak Leaf Cluster
Bronze Star Medal,  Good Conduct Medal


Thomas Edward Duncan - U. S. Navy, Machinists's Mate I
b. 21 July 1922, Transylvania County   d. 30 Aug 2004, Etowah

​Served Nov 1942 - Jan 1946
NTS, NOB, Norfolk VA, USS Bogue

WWII
American Theatre Medal (1 star)
European, African, M. E. Medal (2 stars)
Asiatic Pacific Medal, WWII Victory Medal
Good Conduct Medal, Presidential Unit Citation (1 blue star)

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left, to right: Winborn Gash, William Gash - Twin sons of James Leander & Julia Monteval Hood Gash, of Blantyre
GASH BROTHERS
Winborn Lee Gash - U. S. Army, Cpl
b. 16 July 1914, Henderson County   d. 28 Dec 1975, Henderson County

WWII, Pacific Theater


William Hood Gash - U. S. Army, Sergeant, TEC4 ORD
b. 16 July 1914, Henderson County   d. 11 July 1966, Henderson County

WWII, European Theater, Normandy Invasion

"Sgt. William H. Gash returned this week to his home at Blantyre after receiving a discharge from the Army.   Sergeant Gash spent 38 months in the European theatre of war with the 4597th Ordnance of the 1st Engineer Special Brigade.   During this time he served in the European countries.   He wears five battle stars for Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Northern France and Central Europe; two bronze arrowheads and a meritorious  service award.  A twin brother, Cpl. Winburn Gash is in the Pacific theatre of war with the 77th division.  They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gash, of Blantyre."

source:
newspaper article, date and name of newspaper unknown

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Pierre  Mallett - U. S. Army, Brigadier General
b. 14 March 1893, New York         d.  2 April 1969, Asheville NC

Pierre Mallet was a native of New York but raised in Etowah at the Bryn Avon estate where he is buried in the Mallet Family Cemetery.   Mallet served as an army officer in both World War I and World War II.   In 1943 he took control of the 85th Division Artillery taking his troops into battle in both North Africa and Italy.   He retired from the United States Army in 1950 as a Brigadier General after serving on the military staff of the United Nations.   Military service awards include:   Legion of Merit, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, the European-African-Middle East Medal with three Bronze Stars, and the American Defense Service Medal.   Pierre Mallet was married to Florence Griffith Miller (1896 - 1992).
 
Sources:
The Asheville Times-News, April 2, 1969
National Register of Historic Places - Bryn Avon
U. S. Army Photo

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Ray Edward Parkinson - U. S. Army, Private First Class
b. 4 July 1921, Balfour NC          d. 12 February 1999, Etowah  NC

WWII
May 1943 - January 1946
614th Air Service Group
363rd Air Service Group
American Theatre Medal, Victory Medal, Good Conduct Medal,
 Asiatic Pacific Service Medal


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1942 -  The Chief
  Etowah High School Annual
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Etowah Baptist Church
Honor Roll of Veterans
WWII & Korean War
- names, left to right


Cecil Duncan
Herman Dalton
Reuban Dalton
Roy Dalton
Harry Laughter
Donnie Hamilton
Harold Orr
Avery Simpson
Claude Laughter
Howard McKinna
Terry Mann
R. D. Bruce
Frank Dalton
Howard Dalton
Edward Duncan
Elmer Holtzclaw
Fidill Jackson
Lowell Love
Eugene Stepp
Glenn Simpsom
Ernest West
Gordon Hollingsworth
Glenn Waldrop


Jack Dalton
​Walter Roberts
E. C. Harrison Jr.
Charles Morgan
Cecil Morgan
Bill McKinna
Joyce McKinna
​Marvin Simpson
Oliver Stanton
Jesse Snyder
Ray Parkinson
Charley Morgan
Leo Morgan
Clyde Allison
Leonard Pressley
Glenn Nicholson
Ruth Stamey
J. B. Laughter
Jimmie Gonce
Marvin Allison
Jack Stamey
Theodore Dalton
Floyd Bryson
Ottis Bryson
Fred Sentelle
Garland Jones
Jesse Lee Simpson
Ruth Gonce

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