JOHNSTON COUNTY WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN
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Listing Details
Location: JOHNSTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE-EAST MARKET STREET AND SOUTH 2ND STREET
City: SMITHFIELD
State: North Carolina
Zip Code: 27577
Type of Memorial: War Memorial Drinking Fountains
Year Dedicated: 1923
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR AND WORLD WAR I
Photograph By: BERNARD FISHER
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
IN HONOR OF ALL THOSE FROM JOHNSTON COUNTY WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE WORLD WAR.
WHILE THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR I, THERE ARE THREE NAMES ETCHED ON THE FOUNTAIN.
LIEUT. EDWIN SMITH SANDERS
KILLED AT DREWRY’S BLUFF, VA MAY 16, 1864
WALTER R. MOORE
KILLED AT FARMVILLE, VA APRIL 8, 1865
ENSIGN EDWIN SMITH POU
KILLED AT THE ILLE TUDY, FRANCE OCTOBER 28, 1918
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