Michael Lee Deason, age 28, from Farmington, Missouri, St Francois county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Battery B, 3D Battalion, 320Th Field Artillery, Fort Campbell, Ky
Date of death: Thursday, August 31, 2006
Death details: Died from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Adwar, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Trevor Lawson Jr Spink, age 36, from Farmington, Missouri, St Francois county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hq Co, 3D Bn, 1St Mar, Rct-1, 1St Mar Div, Camp Pendleton, Ca
Date of death: Saturday, July 10, 2004
Death details: Al Anbar Province, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Patrick R. Hurley, age 36, from Flat River, Missouri, Saint Francois county.
Parents: Robert and Mabel Sutton Hurley
Spouse: Paricia
Children: Heather, Hollie, Joshua
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Friday, February 22, 1991
Death details: Died in a helicopter crash
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, Special Operations Warrior Foundation, Flat River Daily Journal (1991)
Harry Melborn Jr. Vandiver, age 21, from Saint Francois County Bonne Terre, Missouri .
Parents: Harry M. Vandiver
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, November 30, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile, illness in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1971)
David Franklin Freeman, age 24, from Farmington, Missouri, Saint Francois county.
Parents: Arthur L. Freeman Jr.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, September 15, 1970
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1970)
Francis Eugene Lindsay, age 21, from Missouri, Saint Francois county.
Parents: Hilda A. Lindsay
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On November 15, 2006, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Francis Eugene Lindsay, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant Lindsay entered the U.S. Army from Missouri and served in Company B, 70th Tank Battalion, attached to the 1st Cavalry Division. On the night of November 1, 1950, elements of the 1st Cavalry Division including the attached 70th Tank Battalion were attacked and overwhelmed by Chinese Communist Forces near Unsan, North Korea. During the rapid withdrawal, hundreds of American soldiers went missing, among them SGT Lindsay. In 2000, a joint U.S. and North Korean team excavated a burial site near Unsan and recovered several sets of human remains. Forensic analysts were able to identify SGT Lindsay from among the recovered remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Saint Louis Naborhood Link News (1950)
William Thomas Edgar from Saint Francois County Desloge, Missouri .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Sergeant William Thomas Edgar, who joined the U.S. Army from Missouri, served with the Headquarters Battery, 82nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured on December 1, 1950, as his unit provided direct supporting fire to 2nd Infantry Division troops withdrawing from Kunu-ri south to Sunchon, North Korea. He was marched to a holding camp in the Pukchin Tarigol Valley, where he died of exhaustion and pneumonia on an unspecified date in late January 1951. Although he was buried near the camp, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Sergeant Edgar is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Kansas City Star (1954)