Cory Michael Hewitt, age 26, from Bumpus Mills, Tennessee, Stewart county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 705Th Ordnance Company (Eod), Fort Polk, La
Date of death: Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Mosul, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
John William George, age 26, from Stewart County Big Rock, Tennessee .
Parents: Ray and Mildred Tippit George
Spouse: Elizabeth Blockmon George (married June 11, 1970)
Children: Susan George
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, November 25, 1971
Death details: Died in a helicopter crash in Vietnam.
Cemetery: Fort Donelson National
Source: National Archives, Leaf Chronicle (1971)
William F. Caseldine, age 40, from Dover, Tennessee, Stewart county.
Spouse: Gladys L. Caseldine
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 16, 1962
Death details: Among 93 soldiers aboard a transport plane on a “secret mission” to Vietnam. Wreaths Across America in 2021: “Very little is known about what happened to the plane and its passengers, and due to the circumstance surrounding this mission, the names of those lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.”
Cemetery: A memorial honoring the lives lost was dedicated in 2021 in Columbia Falls, Maine
Source: Atlanta Counstitution (1962), MauiNow (2021), UPI (1962), Memphis Commercial Appeal (1962)
Julian C. Parker, age 27, from Tennessee, Stewart county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: Infantry
Date of death: Sunday, November 12, 1944
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: Fort Donelson National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Edward F. West, age 27, from Tennessee, Stewart county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: Engineers
Date of death: Friday, November 10, 1944
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: Fort Donelson National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Jesse G. Ford, age 21, from Bumpus Mills, Tennessee, Stewart county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Friday, August 2, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Jackson in Chestnut Grove, Tennessee
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
William Cornett Mann from Indian Mound, Tennessee, Stewart county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On July 5, 1950, Task Force Smith, the first U.S. ground element to engage North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) troops, was defending a position north of Osan, South Korea. The Task Force’s goal was to delay enemy forces by blocking their movement down the road south from Suwon to Taejon, which was a major avenue of advance for the NKPA. That morning, the Task Force was engaged by a column of enemy tanks. The anti-tank weapons that the infantrymen employed were ineffective, and a large number of tanks broke through their position. Task Force Smith was forced to withdraw to the south, suffering heavy casualties in the process. Corporal William Cornett Mann, who joined the U.S. Army from Tennessee, served with the Headquarters Battery, 52nd Field Artillery Battalion, 24th Infantry Division. His unit was part of Task Force Smith, and he was captured by enemy forces on July 5 and forced to march to the Apex prison camps in North Korea. He died of exhaustion, exposure and malnutrition at the camp at Chunggang-jin on an unspecified day in February 1951. He was buried near the camp; however his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the ceasefire. Today, Corporal Mann is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency