The men of Upson County who sacrificed their lives in World War II included Andrew M. Alsobrooks, Ralph E. Bishop, Cecil W. Bledsoe, Curtis V. Bunn, Grady H. Canup, Alexander Cato, Ralph M. Chambley, John K. Conley, William A. Conley, Douglas A. Corley, Clifford L. Crawley, Barney Cummings, Carl Daniel, Webb H. Daniel, Charles E. Dawson, James Harvey Dickens, Clarence W. Dixon, Robert S. Doty, Paul Douglas, Woody W. Duke, Frank S. Dumas, Joel M. Dunbar, Jesse M. Ellerbee, Merritt L. Ellerbee, Stanford E. Ellington, Otis E. Eubanks, Harvey T. Fallin, Thomas S. Fallin, Ben S. Franklin, Walter F. Gilbert, Reginald D. Grant, Paul E. Greene, Dallas C. Hale, Wiley R. Hanson, R. Murry Harrell, Clyde Hewett, Thomas F. Kinsler, Orin D. Lashley, Frank A. Lynch, Ira W. Maddox, Fred F. Mallory, Dan Meadows, Troy E. Meeks, James F. Melton, Lewis A. Melton, Burton L. Neely, Morris E. Nix, Ralph G. Nixon, Gemma K. Oglesbee, Raymond Parkerson, Jim B. Peaden, Thomas Leonard Perkins, John M. Poole, Athus K. Powell, G. Herbert Presley, William T. Pressley Jr., Joseph D. Pritchett, James P. Purvis, Thomas D. Raines, Lonnie H. Reeves, Thomas J. Reeves, James Thurman Ryals, W. H. Horace Scarborough, Ernest Shaw, John H. Shirley, Richard Simpson, James Edward Smith, Walter P. Stumphf, Ralph A. Sutton, John A. Teal, Thomas B. Trice, Fletcher J. Waldroup, Richard Bartow Weekes, Clifford E. Whatley, James W. White, Joseph H. Whittle, Cebran E. Willis, James T. Wilson, Jessie M. Wilson, Joseph N. Winkles, Henry N. Wood Jr., William W. Wyatt, and, under Colored, Otis Brown, Rob L. Green, Elijah Hightower, Ulyses Jordan, Willie Tomlin, Willie James Worthy, and Alvin Burnett Jr.