More than 300 Tipton County servicemembers died while serving the United States across six conflicts, from the Mexican War in the 1840s through the Vietnam era.

Their names are preserved on a memorial at the Tipton County Veterans Museum on Bert Johnston Avenue in Covington, a permanent record of the price this community has paid.

The Civil War alone claimed well over 200 men with Tipton County ties. World War II took more than 60. Sixteen Tipton Countians were killed during the Vietnam conflict, and eight died during Korea.

The names on that memorial are not abstractions. They are fathers, brothers, and sons whose deaths shaped families and neighborhoods in this county for generations. Names like Thomas L. Gaines Jr., killed in Vietnam. Darrow A. Rose, killed in Korea. Alfred Naifeh and Billy Farrow Cobb, lost in World War II. Clark Adams and Jesse G. Hunt, killed in World War I.

The Tipton County Veterans Museum holds those names and the stories behind them. Open Tuesday through Friday, the museum at 751 Bert Johnston Ave. is free to visit and staffed by people committed to making sure these men are not forgotten.

They have chronicled some of their stories through the use of their Veterans Log.

Memorial Day was established not as a day off, but as a day of remembrance. The following men from Tipton County died while in service to the country during wartime.

Mexican War

Calvin Jarnigan

Civil War

G. M. Adams, Elijah E. Ewart, Samuel Lane, E. G. Robertson, Richard Adkins (Atkins), Robert M. Ewart, John H. Larimore, John Robinson, W. D. Allen, Thomas Ewart, W. A. Larimore, R. S. Searcy, William M. Alston, Thomas J. Farrar, Robert Lemmon, Jasper Shankle, Thomas Archer, James Farris (Faires), J. M. Lemmons, J. W. Sherrill, Cap Armour, J. F. Feezor, J. L. Lloyd, Sidney E. Sherrill, James L. Ayers, Peter L. Feezor, George W. Locke, Christopher Simonton, Archibald H. Baird, W. J. Flanigan, Hector Marshall, Presley Simonton, J. Warden Baird, James W. Flannigan, Robert Marshall, Robert C. Simonton, George W. Bandy, John Fleming, Ben W. Mason, Ben A. Smith, William Henry Banks, C. L. Ford, John Mason, George Smith, W. H. Barley, Elias A. Ford, William N. Mason, Henry D. Smith, Ben A. Bartholow, E. J. Freeman, Daniel A. Max, J. D. Smith, Thomas Bayne, Henry J. Futhy, John J. McClanahan, John Henry Smith, George H. Benson, Robert W. Futhy, John R. McCreight, R. E. Smith, John H. Blackman, John W. Gee, James McCullough, R. L. Smith, William M. Bland, William George, James J. McDaniel, J. A. Soloman, J. E. Boyd, Robert H. Gibbs, William J. McDill, James R. Somervill, R. H. Brooks, J. G. Gladden, Winfield S. McDill, John W. Somervill, Joseph Brown, C. P. Goode, James W. McDonald, John D. Spencer, T. H. Bunn, Hale Gorton, James McGraw, Owen H. Stansbury, William H. Cage, Henry C. Grady, H. X. McGuire, W. B. Stephenson, George C. Calhoun, G. W. Grant, John A. McGuire, C. Stokes, J. Dan Calhoun, George W. Gross, William McGuire, John H. Sweet, James H. Calhoun, Isaac W. Gross, J. C. McKinney, Albert Templeton, Thomas C. Campbell, Henry M. Hall, Hugh C. McQuiston, P. H. Townsend, Edward O. Chambers, James S. Hall, Thomas S. Melton, H. H. Trailor, Joshoua D. Clark, Joseph S. Hall, James A. Merrill, Andrew H. Trobaugh, Charles N. Claiborne, Junius L. Hall, Robert B. Miller, Robert H. Trobaugh, A. J. Cole, Jack Harper, Hugh C. Mills, John B. Turner Jr., T. J. Cole, Richard A. Harper, W. R. Moore, James Upchurch, James H. Cotten, William S. Harris, T. W. “Dad” Morgan, J. E. Walker, Jesse Craig, James K. P. Harrison, Henry E. Morrison, Robert C. Walker, W. A. Crouch, Thomas B. Harrison, Embry H. Munford, Joseph Warton, W. Sanders Culbreath, David H. Haynie, Jacob Muse, P. Westmoreland, Augustus F. Daniel, George W. Haynie, James P. Myers, N. M. White, G. S. Daniel, Robert E. Haynie, William B. New, Alfred R. Wilkins, Lewis W. Davis, William T. Haynie, James Calvin Nelson, John Wilkins, G. B. DeLashmit Jr., William Thomas Hill, Samuel Nolley, William Wilkins, G. A. Dickens, James T. Hillard, Ellis Norment, Albert Williams, Chris S. Dickson, Phillip Hooks, A. Owen, William J. D. Wilson, James Dillahunty, Robert Hooks, Isaac Newton Owen, Henry Winders, John A. Douglas, John Horne, James H. Owen, John R. Wiseman, C. F. Dowlen, Hardtimes W. B. Jones, J. T. Parrott, John H. Woods, W. H. Easley, Lewellen W. Jones, T. J. Pewett, Charles H. Woods, Nathaniel H. Elcan, George “Leb” Kent, H. B. Pickard, George S. Wright, Thomas R. Elcan, James P. Kent, John Pippen, B. L. Yount, Charles W. Erwin, J. B. Kirkpatrick, W. H. Price, James H. Erwin, R. S. Lane, Joseph Puckett

Spanish American War

George E. Mayes

World War I

Clark Adams, George H. McKee, Barney A. Adkison, Will Malone, Elmo Albritton, William E. Moore, John Baptist Ashe, Paul Murphy, Lewis T. Bond, Thomas L. Nelson, Bud Brown, Frank Troy Paine, Paul C. Calhoun, James Payne, Ahmid Doggett, Thomas E. Ralph, Richard Dyson, Paul Lytle Rice, Trice H. Esslinger, James F. Ruffin, Sr., Roland M. Foster, Ernest Sherrill, James H. Friedman, John Simmons, Samuel O. Givens, George Smith, Hugh W. Greer, William Somervill, Wilson B. Harris, Olian Fred Starnes, Nelson Harris, Willie Strain, James R. Hindman, Charles Tate, Joe Hines, James V. Ulin, Jesse G. Hunt, David M Van Meter, Cleveland Hunter, James D. Whitmore, Shannon Hutchinson, Uncus Whitson, John Johnson, Samuel Williamson, Charles L. Kinney, Jr., William H. Womble, Robert R. Kosminski, Raleigh Waldron, Robert Lee Lewis, James F. Wood, Joseph R. McGowan

World War II

William R. Atkins, Jr., Leonard O. Kuykendall, Benjamin W. Baker, Jr., Harold W. Lumpkin, Lydle A. Baskin, John A. Manley, Solon M. Beaver, Jr., Woodrow W. Marbry, George R. Blalack, Bill Mathis, Cleveland Billings, Floyd L. McDaniel, Chesley Blankenship, Rufus S. McKee, George R. Bomar, Adrian Venoy Mills, James O. Burgess, Alfred Naifeh, Richard S. Cain, William O. Parham, Ernest McLister Camp, Robert D. Phillips, Dalton W. Carr, Bryson H. Pilkington, William F. Cates, George A. Pinner, Billy Farrow Cobb, Woodrow W. Pool, Robert H. Davidson, William A. Posey, Billy Gene Forbess, Sanford Farris Ray, Solomon H. Forbess, Jr., Walter W. Reynolds, Orville V. Fritzsche, Elmer Thomas Roach, J. W. Glass, Clarence R. Sanders, William E. Gross, James B. Sanders, Winford T. Hadley, Charles G. Smith, Jr., Robert H. Harris, Gordon C. Smith, John P. Hathcock, William E. Smith, John Webb Hayes, Willie L. Somerville, Solon T. Hazelrig, Nath H. Starnes, Leroy E. Hindman, Homer R. Thompson, Robert O. Hocutt, Reuben Throgmorton, Robert R. Hogan, James W. Tracey, John W. Holmes, Ott Cal Trobaugh, Jr., William F. Jacket, Richard E. Ward, Thomas Booker Jones, Jake Wilson, John Calvin Kelley, Robert T. Wright, Andrew E. Kidd

Korean Conflict

Newton W. Bringle, George McDivitt, Benigno Moreno, Darrow A. Rose, Harvey E. Simmons, Thomas E. Tate, Otha R. Vinceson, James L. Wright

Vietnam Conflict

Billy Clyde Alston, Jimmy Dale Blalack, Leroy Buford, Odell Craig, Thomas L. Gaines, Jr., Billy W. Glass, Lonnie O’Neal Hill, John A. Hughlett, Warren G. Ingram, Charles Sid Jackson, Jerry W. R. McCullough, Charles D. Short, Ronald G. Smith, Glenn A. Watkins, Alfonso A. Webb, James Alan Wilks