Monday, October 21, 2013

The Other 16

You don't have to live in Kerr County long before you learn about Francisco Lemos, Sidney Baker, and Earl Garrett--three young Kerrville men who died while in service to their country in World War I.  Streets in Kerrville were named for them. 
Did you know there were sixteen others from Kerr County who also died and are remembered on the various memorial plaques?

They are:
William Eddie Burleson of Camp Verde
William Milton Reeves of Camp Verde (also known as Milton Alfred Reeves)
Jay Lynzy Cowden of Center Point
Albert Feller of Center Point
William Edmond Caddell of Hunt
Randolph Davis of Hunt
Monroe Ernest Dowdy of Ingram
Louie Robert Floyd of Ingram
Grover Kile Hollomon of Ingram
William A. Johannessen of Ingram
Jacob Harvey Merritt of Pebble (near Hunt)
Leonard Miles Denton of Turtle Creek
Robert Emerson Spicer of Turtle Creek
George S. Wells of Kerrville

Edwin John Kaiser (Born in Fredericksburg he lived and worked in Harper, but he registered for the draft in Kerr Co. Lived in the Reservation community.)
Jefferson Davis Leavell (Born in Center Point, but he was drafted from Ozona, Crockett Co.)

I had heard, and newspaper reporting implies, that Baker, Garrett, and Lemos were the only three who lived in Kerrville, that the others were county residents. That may not be so.
There was a man named George S. Wells and his is a curious case. More on that in another post.

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