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Erected by Clay City’s American Legion Post #840, this Veterans’ Memorial is located on the southern edge of Mills Park in Clay City, Illinois.

Engravings on the west side of the memorial:

“Dedicated to those men and women who joined from Clay City Township and served in the Armed Forces in all wars for the United States of American and in special memory of those who gave their lives.”

CIVIL WAR

18th Illinois Inf

• Samuel H. Pishall – Feb-15-62
• Lemuel W. Pishall – Feb 15 62

40th Illinois Inf

• Howlett H. Cook
• John Courtwright – Mar-2-64
• William F. Edmondson – Aug 10-64
• William D. Ewing – Jun-27-64
• John Holman – Aug-15-64
• Newton S. Kenley Jun-27-64
• John C. Livingston – Oct-27-64
• Thompson McDonald – Dec-1-63
• Wesley C. Nay – Mar-18-65
• James W. Trimmer – Nov-1-64

46th Illinois Inf CO F

• Henry C. Ballard – Oct-22-62
• James N. Barnett – Aug-8-63
• Jonathon Blair – Aug-24-62
• William H. Bryan – Apr-23-62
• Quinten J. Bryant – Jun-7-62
• John J. Carder – Jun-12-62
• Parkson Carter – Aug-6-63
• James H. Chapman – Jun-14-65
• John W. Clark – Aug-5-62
• John W. Craig – Aug-5-62
• David J. Devore – Jul-22-63
• Aaron Hanna – Feb-16-65
• William J. Ingraham – Feb 3-64
• James S. Jackson – Oct-10-64
• George Kittle – Dec-15-61
• James M. Knoles – Apr-28-64
• James R. Knoles – May-15-62
• James R. Marshall – May-17-62
• Squire Marshall – May-20-62
• Robert P. McKinney – Jun-3-62
• Crawford C. Miller – Nov-16-61
• James Murphy – Feb-22-64
• George Orman – Jul-20-62
• Lot S. Rogers – Jun-30-62
• James Rude – Jul-21-64
• Josephus Self – Dec-13-64
• William Slack – Nov-13-62
• Erhart Stull – Jan-15-65
• Stephen Taylor – Dec-14-61
• Francis M. Toliver – Apr-1-64
• Menville T. Utterback – Jul-16-62
• Reuben M. White – Mar-15-65

98th Illinois Inf CO A

• Henry W. Archibald – CO H-Feb-24-63
• Jeremiah Baylor – May-31-63
• John Bones – Mar-14-63
• Nathan T. Bussard – CO H-Oct-4-63
• Alex M. Jenkins – CO I-Apr-2-65
• LT Silas Jones – Apr-19-63
• John W. Manker – CO H-Oct-14-62
• Aaron Miller– -Sept-20-63
• David K. Porter – Sept 9-62

Engravings on the east side of the memorial:

CIVIL WAR

5th Illinois CAV CO D

• Cy D. Bates – Sept-21-64
• Alfred Clingingsmith – Feb-24-65
• Stephen Elrod – Jun-4-64
• John W. Hale – Feb-7-64
• Silas H. Lee – Oct-5-64
• Sanford Nully – Sept-17-64
• David Weaver – Nov-4-62

WORLD WAR II

• Marvin H. Brainard – Apr-25-45
• Kenneth R. Bricker – Nov-30-43
• Joseph O. Camp
• Roy H. Fry – Jul-27-44
• Charles E. Grove
• William R. Gray – Nov-19-44
• Lloyd Hagen
• Curtis M. Henderson – Apr-20-45
• Robert L. Petersen
• George Rosenberg
• Oscar L. Young
• Frank Wease
• Frank H. Quertermous – Jun-17-43