During World War II, 402 employees of Watts Mills answered the call to the colors, and those who gave their lives were Rumsley Thompson Bennett, Chester Calvin Miller, Joe Edward Carlton, Rex Darvin Power, Tommy Cogdill, Luther Prather, John Elmer Davis, Robert Lee Putman, James Byron Gray, Allen Rhodes, Alvin Ludie Hazle, Ryan Telford Satterwhite, Ernest Geter Hewitt, Jr., Samuel Hasting Stewart, Herman Alsie Madden, James Bruce Tolleson, and James Charles Turner.