Clay County honored those who died in the cause of liberty, intelligence, and the nation’s safety during World War II from 1941 to 1945 and World War I from 1917 to 1918, naming the fallen from each war. In World War II they were Albert B. Adkins, Homer J. Adkins, Albert W. Baker, Hansel Bracc, Clifford L. Braley, Alfred L. Brooks, Lelannd B. Brown, William H. Butcher, Fred C. Cocar Jr., Clarence C. Comer, Clarence Cottrell, Dencil P. Cunningham, Albert E. Cutlip, Richard R. Davis, John S. Downey, Ralph Fitzwater, Cluster G. Gillespie, Clifford R. Hall, Dane H. Hamric, James H. Hamrick, Manuel E. Happeny, Eluin Hensley, Laco H. Jarvis, Burman G. Jones, Johnnnie B. Jones, Phillip T. Jammar, Carl L. Keller, Ozro B. Jones, Cle C. Laurence, Glen M. Laurence, Berlin Linkinogger, Frank Marling, Raymond Mollohan, Lester L. Neal, Ray J. Nottingham, Leonn S. Paxton, Wiley G. Price, Luster B. Reedy, Norvall L. Runnion, Luz G. Rogers, Elmer Salisbury, Fenton Samples, Abraham C. Sams, Henry K. Schoonquer, John E. Sears, Fred A. Shamblin, Carey K. Stockwell, Clarence F. Taylor, Robert L. Uance, Arthur R. Walker, Hubert B. Williams, Samuel T. Wilson, John Buck Dorsey, and Thomas H. Strictland. In World War I they were Thomas F. Adkins, Thomas Buckner, Jack D. Chapman, David J. Cochran, James R. Cox, Jerry P. Downey, George W. Elliott, Robert Frazier, John Virgil Gibson, Quantrell C. Hart, Richard Johnson, William Knotts, Floyd Lyons, Anderson Nicholas, Lawrence Osburn, Carrington M. Price, James W. Ramsey, James Elliott Reed, Joseph S. Truman, Okey Uauchan, and Stanto Whittington.