Victoria County Honor Roll

The monument lists thirty-nine names, and the roster in Roy Grimes's county history counts thirty-nine Victoria County men dead in the war. Grimes's list was reprinted by the Victoria County Genealogical Society in 1995. By his account the first Victorian killed in action was Leon A. Zear. When an American Legion post was organized here in August 1920, its members asked that it carry his name, and it still does. On the stone the names run alphabetically for thirty-four, then start again with five more.

What the plaque says

Victoria County Honor Roll Country's Defenders from Victoria County who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War erected by the citizens of Victoria County dedicated by Leon Zear Post No. 166 the American Legion. Overton A.Abshier, Charles J. Beyer, Oscar R. Booker, John R. Branch, Leo Leslie Brown, Willie E. Butler, Harry Russell Canfield, John J. Caton, Horace c. Davidson, Jacob B. Dentler, Joseph H. Devasier Lawrence J. Fox, Manuel De La Garza, George Gleinser, Maurice Lombardi Groce, Andrew Jackson Handley, Fritz Hoeber, Frank Joseph Holy, Henry Innocenti, Alfred Kohl, Thomas Lambertson, Edwin Ley, John J.Mikeska, Leo E. Mitchell,Walter E. Nitschmann, Albert S. Noble, James W. Priddy, William J. Rawlines, Clarence Elton Smith, Pedro Villareal, David Dell Weaver, Fritz Wolf, Henry Wurdel, Leon A. Zear, Raymond A. Allen, Reed Thomas Anderson, Elijah Atwood, Henry Bell, William M. Halein. "The right is more precious then peace, we shall fight for thing which we have always carried in our hearts to such a Task, We have dedicated our lives."

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• De León Plaza — steps away
  The central plaza of Guadalupe Victoria, the only predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, founded by Martín De León in 1824 and taken from his family after 1836.
• Museum of the Coastal Bend — 1.8 mi
  Victoria College's museum of thirteen thousand years on the middle Texas coast, from Clovis hunters and Karankawa potters to La Salle's lost Fort St. Louis and the first ranches.
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site — 16 mi
  The open prairie east of Goliad where Fannin's retreating column formed a square short of the Coleto Creek timber on March 19, 1836, and surrendered the next day.
• Fannin Memorial Monument — 25 mi
  The 1938 pink granite memorial over the common grave of Fannin's men, shot on the roads out of Goliad on Palm Sunday 1836, the grave itself found again only in the 1930s.

More markers nearby

• Victor M. Rose — steps away
• Home County of William Pinckney McLean — steps away
• Victoria County — steps away
• Victoria County, C.S.A. — steps away