Men from the Third District of McMinn County, including members of Company L, 117th Infantry, and others who served in World War I, were remembered for making the supreme sacrifice in duty, remaining steadfast and unafraid through the conflict, suffering, hospitals, and battlefields, and upholding freedom through truth, courage, and patriotism. The dead named were William H. Eckel, Riley S. Amyx, Elmer E. Anthony, Paul H. Bassler, Thomas C. Cagle, Albert A. Carlock, Rufus W. Chenoweth, Charlie Clark, Virgil A. Clayton, James R. Cooley, Charlie Culp, Roy C. Curtis, Albert D. Cutshal, William M. Dobbs, John Fischer, John W. Fletcher, William F. Humphreys, Hugh T. Lewallen, William R. McKay, James T. Michaels, Leon J. Nys, Jesse Pollard, Ira E. Presswood, John E. Seaton, Elmer Spencer, Barney G. Taylor, Jake Visage, Clarence Williams, Miles Woods, Walter H Wyatt, Charles E. Boone, Dewey Ledford, Icom Houk, Darius Daugherty, Robert Daugherty, Bryant S. Trew, Lewis Adams, Edward Gay, Ray Liner, Oscar W. Vaughn, Herbert L. Payne, James Carpenter, Charles E. Stansbury, Paul M. Eaton, Charlie Fitch, Will F. France, Sam B. Kennerly, Samuel McGuire, Arvel W. Maynor, Riley O. Murphy, Eugene R. Phibbs, Charlie S. Powers, Grover C. Propes, Zed Snelson, Homer Sullivan, William A. Taylor, Sterling Ward, Buford L. Wix, and John H. Woodward. In 1922, the citizens of Etowah and the Third District of McMinn County honored them as the living dead who gave their youth so the world might grow old in peace.