Aragon Baldwin Mills's Whitmire Plant lost seventeen employees in World War II: Great Britton Arrowood, Thomas Bellue, Howard Eugene Boulware, Ralph Cochran, William Thomas Crosby, Robert Yvan Evans, Floyd Virgil Gilliam, James Richard Hayes, John Bruce Loftis, Jr., Robert P. McCall, William McMurry, John H. Osborne, Marion Ephraim Reed, Harold Anderson Senn, Lawrence Eugene Summers, Stanley Jones Teasley, and Clifford Vinson.