The people of Tyrrell County dedicated this war memorial on the 11th day of November, 1985, A.D., in recognition of the service of its men and women in the Armed Forces of the United States of America in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and in memory of those who died in these conflicts: World War I, Clyde Bradford Armstrong, James M. Brickhouse, David L. Cohoon, Lloyd H. Dillon, Oscar Dodge, Asa Jeremiah Etheridge, Columbus S. Morris, Anderson L. Ader, and Amsey Sawyer; World War II, Raymond H. Wilkins C.M.H., Junior V. Basnight, Ephriam C. Cooper, James D. Holloway, Thomas Lindsey Jarvis, Chester Hopkins, Jr., Mary Lee Kemp, Gaither Lassiter, William Nelson McClees, James T. Machen, Clarence Rayfield Owens, Norman E. Smith, Charlie W. Sykes, Milton “Pete” Taylor, Huron R. Voliva, Calvin Doss Weatherly, and Richard Wynn; Korea, Warren Davenport, Jr.; and Vietnam, Glynn Thomas Cahoon, Morgan Lane Cahoon, Edwin Earl Hoffman AKA Edwin Earl Lassiter, Devoya M. King, Raymond Christopher Meekins, James Terry Payne, Harmon Thurston Respass, and Serge Walter Spotanski.