During World War I, from 1917 to 1918, men from Monroe County who made the supreme sacrifice included Bedford B. Lunsford, DSC, Fred R. Allen, Horace Burger, Harden E. Clark, Lem E. Emert, Wm. Edgar Giles, Willie Greer, David C. Hickey, Meredith G. Jenkins, Thurber McConkey, Joe McGhee, Robert L. Miller, William H. Milligan, Levi Sherman Morehouse, Lt, Anon Lester Moser, Benjamin Nichols, Frank A. Ray, Albert B. Simpson, Dan W. Snider, James H. Taylor, Charlie Clark, Charlie Fitch, Willie M. Goad, William Z. Lankford, Arthur L. McCampbell, John McClendon, Earnest Milsaps, William S. Scruggs, and John E. Standridge.