In the World Wars, people from the county who made the supreme sacrifice included, in World War I, Ed Del Ray, Maud Evans, Perry Harris, George V. Mathews, Leonard Schull, William A. Sheffield, Hallett Smith, Joe Silva, Frank J. Terra, and Charles Leo Wayne, and in World War II, William H Besoain, Arthur Case, Norman H. Eastlick, James J. Mathews, Jack Norris, Donald H. Pinkerton, and Eugene Rivallier.