Researched & Written
Published by Linda Cunningham Fluharty
Printed in the United States of America
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Only 25 books published & will eventually be donated to libraries.
E-mail: lcflu@aol.com
by
Linda Cunningham Fluharty© October, 2019
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
on acid-free paper
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On October 23, 2019, five granite monuments were unveiled on the grounds of the courthouse in Moundsville to honor the Military Service Dead of Marshall County, West Virginia. This project had long been a dream of Moundsville native, Joe Parriott.
Sadly, in the opinion of this writer, 18 of the names should NOT be on the monuments... and about 180 additional names (that I know of) SHOULD be. 169 are presented in this book, and the others, from more recent service, are memorialized on the Marshall County WVGenWeb site.
For more than twenty years, I have researched, compiled, and shared an abundance of military information, mainly related to West Virginia in the Civil War. And when my friend, Joe Parriott, introduced the idea of a granite monument to honor the Marshall County service dead in 2004, I was on board! I printed and mailed him everything I had, most of which was - and still is – presented on my websites. In 2016, the Marshall County Commissioners decided to support Joe’s project and a research committee was formed to determine the names to be included on the memorial.
Now, the Veterans’ Plaza at the courthouse in Moundsville is a reality, paid for with county funds, and the names of 462 men who died during military service are memorialized on granite. Some have absolutely no connection to Marshall County, while many others, with a true Marshall County affiliation, are unremembered. Sadly, many (170+) were overlooked because much of the information I provided over 15 years was lost, probably while Joe was working on other important projects. Although I again provided a wealth of information, in addition to the vast trove on my publicly available websites, the research committee didn’t avail themselves of very much of it.
In this publication, I have focused mainly on the Civil War. I included World War I and Korean War dead, but did not research World War II era dead because we already have the WWII veterans listed on the Marshall County WVGenWeb site, with the names of the dead highlighted. More recent unremembered service dead are also on the website.
Many named in this book merely enlisted or mustered in at Marshall County, with no other affiliation. My biographies reflect that I was most interested in the unremembered, those who were verifiably born in, or once lived in, Marshall County. Service dead from areas “close” to Marshall County were not considered. To include a few who lived close to Marshall County would leave out countless others - probably hundreds - who also lived close.
Biographical sketches of Marshall County nurses in World War I and World War II are presented here, but the list is not all-inclusive. And I am sharing my images of author Davis Grubb’s ancestors because he is related to Marshall County.
I had not planned to do a book, so this is not perfectly formatted - and there’s no index. There are probably a few errors, but of paramount importance are the names of the unremembered. Maybe some should not be on a memorial but I’m not judging.
Although I have compiled an extensive list of the service dead, there are likely MANY MORE that we simply don’t know about yet.
-- Linda Cunningham Fluharty
UPDATE, February 2, 2024
On February 1, I discovered that most of the previously overlooked names, which I submitted in 2021, were added to the granite memorials on the courthouse grounds "LAST FALL." The county chose not to include the Marshall men who died while serving in the Confederate Army. However, since they WERE Marshall men who DIED in the Civil War, they are memorialized on the Marshall County WVGenWeb site, or on one of my Civil War sites.
