World War Veterans 1917-1918

Wayne County sits about as far from anywhere as Utah gets, and still it sent this many men to the First World War. The monument's roll runs long for so small a place — dozens of names, the same families over and over: Browns and Brinkerhoffs, Allens and Allreds, Hankses and Paces. From ranches and farms tucked under the red cliffs of Rabbit Valley, these young men went off to a war being fought an ocean and a continent away, in a Europe most of them had never imagined seeing. The list is the community, written out in full.

What the plaque says

Samuel L. Adams • Harold Dean Allen • Lewis a. Allen • John F. Allred • Martin Baker • Loran S. Barger • Wallace Blackburn • Royal J. Brinkerhoft • Willard A. Brinkerhoff • Alburn Brown • Clarence Brown • Eugene L. Brown • Grant G. Brown • Harold L. Brown • Lee R. Chappell • Wilford Coleman • Marion Cook • Daniel N. Covington • George T. Eckersley • James W. Eckersley • Almon Clifford Ellett Charles S. Forsyth • John Frank Forsyth • Aaron C. Goff • Ralph L. Goodrich • Charlie Bain • Walter B. Hanks • Benjamin A. Hansen • Geoffrey B. Hays • Lorenzol Heaps • Archie M. Heath • Floyd Huntsman • Glen Johnson • Stephen Otis Jones • Edgar Larsen • John S. Larsen • Milton Mangum • Karl P. Mathis • Marcus Morrell • Rufus Morrell • Riley R. Osborn • Barlow W. Pace • Vern W. Pace • Joseph Rymer • Walter E. Smith • Coleman Snow • Walter E. Stewart • William U. Stewart • Elmer B. Taylor • David Loran Turner • William Wood • Stuart Wyllie

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Torrey — 7.4 mi
  A charming gateway town for Capitol Reef National Park
• Gifford Homestead — 17 mi
  A pioneer homestead famous for its fresh-baked pies
• Fruita Historic District — 17 mi
  A pioneer orchard oasis in the red-rock heart of Capitol Reef.
• Capitol Reef National Park — 17 mi
  Utah's most underrated national park — a 100-mile wrinkle in the Earth

More markers nearby

• Memory of Black Hawk War Veterans 1866-1867 — steps away
• Thurber Relief Society Hall (4) Markers — steps away
• First Public Building — 5.4 mi
• Allred Point Pioneers — 7.9 mi