The Red Cross Chapters of DeSoto County honored the sons of DeSoto who served their nation and the cause of humanity in World War I, and dedicated this memorial in memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice: Edward Alderman, Cecil E. Montgomery, J. L. Altman, Lee Nelson, George Bates, James Orr, Eugene A. Blake, Lewis H. Parker, Louis Bunnell, S. Clyde Sessions, Albert M. Bryan, Carl Seigel, Grady Burch, J. Frank Stonebraker, Jr., Leslie E. Collier, Cecil Tonkin, George Cox, James E. Watkins, D. E. Donahue, Joseph Webb, Ira J. Fowler, Nathaniel Weeks, Alton Grice, Raleigh Whidden, Fred Holland, Herger Williams, James Hudson, Hosea Williams, Jesse Lanier, Maurice Williams, Arthur Madden, Augustine Willis, Wm. E. Mitchell, Charles Willis, Paul D. Mobley, Louis C. Vandervelde, Ben Roan V. Argo, Jordan Hunt, Ike Davis, John Jones, Leonard Fulford, and George Shellman.