Martinsville a Pictorial History

At War

     These men belonged to Uncles Sam's hospital corps during World War I. From left to right are Fred Carter, Fred Bennett, Lester Steele, David Crone, James James, Captain Frank Robinson, Earl Sanders, Roy E. Ison, Floyd Williams, Ralph Phelps, Forest Townsend.

     The Spanish-American War for the liberation of Cuba occurred in 1898. Among the local soldiers was Captain John Ernest Winters, whose career as a dentist upon returning home made him well known in Martinsville.

     On June 29 , 1929, Martinsville's courthouse square was filled with men in suits and women in white summer dresses who came to observe the parade of the 50th encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. This photograph was taken from the corner of Washington and Main Streets. Wade Duckworth and Charles Merriman were the drivers of the team of horses pulling the float of the Greater Martinsville Association.
     Founded in 1866, the Grand Army of the Republic was the largest and most influential organization of Union Soldiers of the Civil War.

     Kwajalein Atoll, World War II, January 31, 1944. Esther Bray spotted this photograph in a Standard Oil advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post. She thought it might resemble the fighting her husband, Colonel William Bray, was engaged in as a tank commanders, so she cut it out, framed it, and hung it on the wall. "When Bill came home," Esther relates, "he spotted that hanging on the wall and asked, ‘Where on earth did you get that? That's my men!"

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These men belonged to Uncles Sam's hospital corps during World War I. From left to right are Fred Carter, Fred Bennett, Lester Steele, David Crone, James James, Captain Frank Robinson, Earl Sanders, Roy E. Ison, Floyd Williams, Ralph Phelps, Forest Townsend.
	The Spanish-American War for the liberation of Cuba occurred in 1898. Among the local soldiers was Captain John Ernest Winters, whose career as a dentist upon returning home made him well known in Martinsville.
On June 29 , 1929, Martinsville's courthouse square was filled with men in suits and women in white summer dresses who came to observe the parade of the 50th encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. This photograph was taken from the corner of Washington and Main Streets. Wade Duckworth and Charles Merriman were the drivers of the team of horses pulling the float of the Greater Martinsville Association. Founded in 1866, the Grand Army of the Republic was the largest and most influential organization of Union Soldiers of the Civil War.
	Kwajalein Atoll, World War II, January 31, 1944. Esther Bray spotted this photograph in a Standard Oil advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post. She thought it might resemble the fighting her husband, Colonel William Bray, was engaged in as a tank commanders, so she cut it out, framed it, and hung it on the wall. "When Bill came home," Esther relates, "he spotted that hanging on the wall and asked, ‘Where on earth did you get that? That's my men!"