From 1917 to 1919, nine hundred and thirty men of Davidson County served in World War I, and the county honored those who gave their lives for the flag: Jesse L. Barkley, Odell Barnes, W.M. Bazemore, Harvey Briles, George W. Broadway, C.C. Cook, Ben. W. Cornelius, Fritz Creakman, D.C. Culbreth, John H. Easter, Raymond Elliott, Robert Lee Fritts, Ernest Gurdner, H.D. Harris, Chas. W. Harrison, N.M. Hopkins, Arthur R. Howell, Lloyd Irvin, Albert A. Lineberry, Carl Link, Fred G. Lookahill, John Carl Miller, William Albert Miller, Jno. A. Myers, Thomas Gurney Nance, Ira Poston, Nelson Rayfield, Adlai Stevenson, Harrison Sullivan, J.P. Surratt, W.P. Surratt, Oliver Thomason, Travis Thompson, Henry V. Traynham, Ernest Weaver, Fred Welch, Haymore Westmoreland, Will Hargrave, and James Franklin Lopp.