In the First World War, from 1917 to 1918, local men entered their country's service, and those who gave their lives in the defense of liberty included those killed in action—Charley Kearby, Arnold Hodge, Arthur Lee Clayton, Roy E. Thornburgh, Asa Cradic, Virgil L. Adams, and Harve Akes—and those who died of disease—Malvin McAllister, Charles M. Lovelace, Fred B. Shrum, Walter L. Wakefield, James Aaron Howard, Phillip E. Twidwell, Chester McCormick, Harry W. Nunn, Phillip S. Carlton, Sherman Hicks, Rowten Lee Losh, Teddy C. Westbrooks, Sylvester Sweet, Jesse McLeary, John Henry Langley, William Lee Lewallen, Albert Abernathy, Therman C. Selvidge, Edward Lee Wilson, Leslie J. Marshbanks, Charles Wood, Charles Henry Wood, and George Johnson.