Patrick and Henry Counties In Vietnam

For Release July 4, 2011

            The Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society and Historian Tom Perry are pleased to announce plans for an upcoming exhibit on the men from Martinsville, Henry County, and Patrick County, Virginia, who lost their lives in the Vietnam Conflict. The exhibit will open around Veterans Day this November in the Martinsville-Henry County Heritage Center & Museum located in the historic Henry County Courthouse. We are asking the people of Martinsville and Henry County for your help to provide us with information on the local men who lost their lives in Vietnam so that it may be included in the exhibit.

            On June 23, 2011, Perry visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C. and collected rubbings of the names of each man from Martinsville and Henry County engraved on the Wall. These rubbings will be incorporated into the exhibit to go with a similar shadowbox with the names of the seven men from Patrick County who lost their lives. Perry collected material on these men and did rubbings several years ago documented at www.freestateofpatrick.com/vietnam. 

            If you have photos, documents or stories that you would like to share and to help us tell the story of these veterans, please let us know. Perry will be scanning images or any related materials on these men over the next few months.  Perry will be at the Heritage Center and Museum in the historic Henry County Courthouse in Uptown Martinsville on July 21, 22, August 18, 19 and September 15, and 16. Please call Tom Perry at 276-692-5300 or send an email to freestateofpatrick@yahoo.com to set up an appointment to scan any materials you would like to share. If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact Debbie Hall, Executive Director of the Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society at 276-403-5361.

            Perry will be at the Bassett Train Station during the Bassett Farmer’s Market scanning images for a Bassett book and the Vietnam project on July 7, August 11, September 8, September 10, October 13, 2011.

            Following are the names of the soldiers from Martinsville and Henry County who lost their lives during Vietnam:

 

LONNIE DOUGLAS ALLEY

LONNIE ALLAN BROOKS

FRANK JOSEPH BOWLES

JERRY ALLEN DILLARD

SAMUEL HARRISON EASLEY II

DOUGLAS LEE FOLEY
JOHNNY MICHAEL HAIRSTON

LARRY DAVIS HATCHER

ROBERT VERNON HOLLAND

LOUIS ALLEN JEFFERSON

LEWIS DEAN LAMKIN (LAMPKIN)

LEWIS RANDOLPH LOVELL JR
CHARLES EDWARD MANNS

ALPHONSO S MARTIN

HARRY PEMBERTON MARTIN

LINWOOD DWIGHT MARTIN

CALVIN WETZEL RAMSEY

TONY ELWOOD SEAY

JAMES ALLEN SOUTHER

GORDON ELLIOTT STONE

CLOVIS BERNARD WALKER

MORRIS ALFRED WHITEHEAD

DAVID WAYNE WILSON

SAMUEL EARNEST WITCHER

Men From Patrick County Who Lost Their Lives in Vietnam

ROGER DALE BOWMAN

FREDERICK CURTIS BULLINGTON

BOBBY LARRY CORNS

ISRAEL LONZO INGRAM

JOHN MATHAS JAMES

BERNARD ALLEN SOWDER

LARRY JAMES TALLEY