This large stone structure has a large base with four columns and a globe atop a platform.
On the west face a plaque reads:
Forever Honour'd Forever Moun'd
This tablet is reverently dedicated
To the memory of
THOMAS L. HITT
CARL HENRY HOLDER
Who gave thier lives in the Korean Conflict.
PFC Thomas L. Hitt (US Army),of Greenwood, SC, died 09/02/1950
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PFC Carl Henry Holder (USMC) of Greenwood, SC, died 09/17/1950
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On the other three sides of the monument can be found:
Etched into the north face:
Dedicated to the Honor of the Men and Women Who Served Our Country In World War II 1941 - 1946.
Etched into the south face:
Erected 1947 By Employees and Management of Mathews Mill.
On the east face is a bronze plaque:
In Memoriam
Here in enduring bronze are recorded the names of those from Mathews Mill who gave their lives for their country in World War II.
William E. Bleckley, Manson J. Browne, Boyd E. Burgess,
Maxwell M. Chapman, P. Otis Coker, Dewey E. Cooper, Jr.,
Ervin W. Crowe, J. Lawrence Daniel, Thomas R. Gambrell,
Cecil G. Gentry, James B. Hammond, William Harrison,
Heyward Holley, Vern Holley, Collins D. Holt, Harold B. Morse,
Robert Owings, Homer Edd Padgett, Joe D. Richard,
Paul R. Underwood, Jr., Frank A. Wind, Jr.
“Comrades sleep the warfare o’er dream of fighting fields no more sleet the sleep that knows no breaking morn of toil nor nights of waking.”