Historical Marker · No. 4344

Circleville Veterans Memorial

Circleville, Piute County · Utah

Circleville's honor roll runs deeper than most small-town memorials — back past Korea and the World Wars to a roster from the Black Hawk War of 1865, the conflict born of Ute and Paiute dispossession that also produced this town's darkest hour, the 1866 massacre of Paiute prisoners by Circleville settlers. One name on that early roster stops you: Maximillian Parker, who later raised thirteen children on a ranch south of town. His eldest, Robert LeRoy Parker, became Butch Cassidy. Father on the memorial, son on the wanted posters.

What the plaque says

Center Panel Freedom Is Not Free Dedicated to Those Who Served ★ Honor Roll ★ World War I - Otto Beebe World War II - Raymond "Ruby" Brinkerhoff Korean War - Arnold E. Peterson Left Panel Black Hawk & Indian Wars 1865 Roster James Willard Munson • Maximillion Parker • Thomas C. Smith • James C. Whittaker Jr. • James Darling Wiley • Georce Wiltshire Sr. World War I 1917-1918 Woodruff Floyd Allen • Carl Ceorce Beebe • Otto Beebe • Blaine Betenson • Thomas Earl Betenson • Wilford Day Davis • Daniel Mortimer Day • Merrill W. Day • Robert Layfette Dobson • Joseph Olson Fox • Carlisle "Carl" Fullmer • Lawrence Richard Gass • Orion Gottfredson • Gus Lambson • Ben Lewis Jr. • Ernest Lewis • Marion Beason Lewis • Ira Arthur McDonouch • James Orson Meeks • Robert Darius Morgan • Albert C. Nay • Frank Nay • Joseph Rawlins Parker • Mark Delayfette Parker • Marvin Ray Pearson • Clarence Simkins • Edgar L. Simkins • Arnold O. Smoot • James Christopher Whittaker • William R. Wooley World War II 1941-1945 Samuel Lee Allen • Don J. Applegate • Martell Applegate • John Lavor Beebe • Walter Albert Beebe • Bevin W. Betenson • Druce Betenson • Scott Parker Betenson • Harvey Bird • Almon Nay Bridges • Don L. Bridges • Raymond "Ruby" Brinkerhoff • James Robert Cameron • Cerald W. Cannon • Roe F. Chamberlain • Wayne Ellis Chamberlain • James Junior Chidester • Fred L Collins Jr. • John T. Collins • Alma Dalton • Earl Dalton • Francis Cecil Dalton • Carrell Garth Dalton • Lawrence Whittaker Dalton • Nordell Dalton • Taylor Boyd Dalton • Clark D. Davis • Delmar S. Davis • Elmer Stevens Davis • Wilford D. Davis • Glen Merrill Day • Merrill Clark Day • Ward Day • Arland Dobson • Nolan Lionel Dobson • John Elmer Fox • Porter O. Fox • Shirley Dwight Fox • Alfred Doyle Fullmer • Alvis C. "Mutt" Fullmer • Clem C. Fullmer • Cyril D. Fullmer • Harold B. "Shine" Fullmer • Rollo Fullmer • Thomas H. Fullmer • Eucene Gass • Harold Arthur Gottfredson • Lemuel Jay Hall • Wayne Wadsworth Hall • Carlos "Abe" Haycock • Francis Dalton Haycock • Bertha Horton • David Brandon Horton • Georce Robert Horton • James Wallace Johnson • John "Zahn" Johnson • Vernon Morris Johnson • David L. Kockerhans • Dewey Kockerhans • Elroy Kockerhans • Earl Lewis • Franklin M. Lewis • Ray W. Lewis • Lamar W. Lewis • Lamar Alfred Mangum • Lothair Mangum • Dennis Leroy Morgan • Joseph Moroni Morgan • Wendal Earl Morgan • Dick Ruby Mortenson • Hugh Alton Mortenson • James Edgar Mortenson • Niels Bough Mortenson • Alby Nay • Arnold H. Nay • John L. Nay • Clarence Dolphin Nay • Jay Douglas Nay • Frederick O. Nay • Glen Merrill Nay • Howard Legrande Nay • John Leonard Nay • Merrill C. Nay • Sherman Nay Right Panel World War II 1941-1945 Guy L. Norton • Howard Norton • Elmer T. Orgill • Harold Elias Pearson • James Aaron Peterson • Leonard Harvey Peterson • Rell A. Reynolds • Darvel Robinson • James Dalley Robinson • John Milton Robinson • Ralph "Tim" Robinson • Harry Thomas Romine • Allen L. Simkins • Howard Dalley Simkins • J. Douglas Simkins • Beth Smith • Joseph Douglas Smith • Joseph D. Smith • Thomas D. Alpine Smith • Reid W. Sudweeks • Elmo Sinclair Thompson • Iva Lou Thompson • James Lamont Veater • Richard James Westwood • Donald Carlyle Whittaker • Heber Dee Whittaker • George T. Whittaker • Howard Arthur Whittaker • Raymond Sterling Whittaker • Karl W. Wood • Roger G. Zingelman Korean War 1950-1953 Irvan Bruce Allen • Ronald Carl Beebe • David B. Crane • William M. Crane • Keith Dalton • John B. Davis • Robert "Bob" Davis • Grant A. Day • Brent Fullmer • Bryon H. Fullmer • Gordon O. Fullmer • Maurice Fullmer • Paul Fullmer • Floyd R Fox • Larry E. Gass • Brent Gottfredson • Burt Gottfredson • James W. Haycock • Robert "Bob" Horton • Dan J. Lefevre • Gerald E. Lewis • Paul Morgan • Floyd Nay • William J. Nay • Arnold E. Peterson • Dale L. Peterson • Vreeland S. Peterson • La Rell Robinson • William Romine • Dick Simkins • Ronald Simkins • Thomas Simkins • Connell L. Smith • David Smith • Ralph C. Staples • Earle Whittaker • Gale Whittaker • Clyde D. Whittaker • Kenneth D. Stoker • Francis Alma Spencer • Gerald D. Morgan • Wendell Lewis • George Dennis Morgan Viet Nam & Later Delos E. Boren • Charles S. Crane • Howard W. Dalton • Roger C. Dalton • Robert L. Dalton • Teddy T. Dalton • Lew Day • Jeffrey Fox • Sterling D. Fox • David Fullmer • Thomas W. Fullmer • David Gottfredson • Jacob Gottfredson • Howard Horton • Jay R. Lewis • Ludell R. Nay • John R. Nay • Κeith Η. Ρearson • Lloyd Pearson • Lester Peterson • Niel Peterson • Brad C. Smith • Roger Lloyd Stoker • Danny Thompson • Arthur Whittaker • Earl H. Whittaker • James L. Whittaker • Stanley C. Whittaker • James E. Wilcock • Robert G. Wilcock • Neil C. Wiltshire • Chad K Wood • Clair Lefevre • Paul Simkins • Phillip Simkins • Curtis F. Nay • Charles Richard Fox Iraq & National Guard Tom Bush • Cole Cannon • Shawn Evans • Travis Fullmer • Gregg Fullmer • Than Lefevre • Troy Robinson • Jace Torgerson • K.C. Torgerson • Daniel Whittaker Reverse Left Panel ★ Died in Service ★ Francis Dalton Haycock • Leonard Harvey Peterson • Gordon O. "Shorty" Fullmer Reverse Center Panel Freedom Isn't Free I watched the flag pass by one day, it fluttered in the breeze. A young serviceman saluted it, and then he stood at ease. I looked at him in uniform so young, so tall, so proud, with hair cut square and eyes alert he'd stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like him had fallen through the years. How many died on foreign soil, how many mothers' tears? How many pilots planes shot down? How many died at sea, how many foxholes were soldiers graves? No, freedom isn't free. I heard the sound of taps one night, when everything was still, I listened to the bugler play and felt a sudden chill. I wondered just how many times that taps had meant "Amen", when a flag had draped a coffin of a brother or a friend. I thought of all the children, of the mothers and the wives, of the fathers, sons and husbands with interrupted lives. I thought about a graveyard at the bottom of the sea of unmarked graves in Arlington. No, freedom isn't free.

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