Shelby County veterans who died while serving their country included James Cannon, Ezra Carey, Zachariah Cecil, Rev. William F. R. Davis, Col. John Hardin, and Joshua Stevens in the Revolutionary War; William Bell, William A. Burrous, Richard M. Cannon, Joshua Cole, David Coon, Abraham Davenport, George Hutchison, and James Lenox in the War of 1812; Dimmitt Barker, Isaac O. Cole, John P. Powell, Thomas Powell, and James A. Steale in the Civil War; and Albert G. Heilers in World War II.