Wesley Phelps, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient born in Grayson County on June 12, 1923, is buried in Rosine Cemetery. He served with Third Battalion, Seventh Marines, First Marine Division, during World War II. He received the honor posthumously for gallantry at the risk of his life that another might be spared serious injury on Paleliu Island, Japan. During a savage counterattack by enemy Japanese forces, he and another Marine were in an advanced position when a hand grenade landed in his foxhole. Phelps shouted a warning to his comrade and rolled over on the grenade, absorbing the impact of the explosion with his body. He gave his life on Oct. 4, 1944.