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On April 6, 1917, the United States under President Wilson entered the war to fight with the Allies.  Troop trains stopped in Medford to pick up Grant countians going off to camp.  For those who died in the war, the Pond Creek chapter of DAR erected a memorial stone in Pond Creek Cemetery upon which are inscribed these names:

 

BLISS MARKLAND JAMES CINK
CHARLES A. HEUSEL CLAUD BOWLS
CLARENCE HICKOK DONALD P. FULLER
EMMETT A. SMITH FRED L. McKINNEY
FRANK C. CZERNY FRITZ CARLBERG
GEORGE BRAUN GILBERT RIESZ
GROVER HOCKMAN LYMAN HOCKMAN
HOMER NASH HARRY KURTZ
HOBART FARRIS JOHN M. HEASTY
JOSEPH ZEMAN LEWIS JONES
MURRELL BURGESS BERNARD F. KEARNS
MURRELL A. KEARNS OSA O. WOY
PORTER YELTON RAYMOND COMBS
ROY L. WOOLEY ROY O. CRANMER
ROBERT PROSE WILLIAM W. ERNEST
WILLIAM H. CARPENTER WILLIAM GLENN

Footnote:  The above information is taken from the book:  History of Grant County by Guy Webb.