Four alternative vietnam casualties might have coweta connectors – newnan times

Published Sunday, Might twenty-two, 2011 in Local

By ALEX McRAE

alex@newnan.com

War is disorderly commercial operation as well as the issue can be treacherous for friends, family as well as desired ones perplexing to get each final throw of report about someone who gave their hold up in use to their country.

In the 1988 “History of Coweta County, Georgia, ” twenty-four group have been listed as Cowetans killed in Vietnam. Though after unconstrained investigate, dozens of phone calls as well as large personal pleas over the years, Newnan High School Social Studies Department Chairman Steve Quesinberry, who teaches the category upon the Vietnam War, has been incompetent to find the organisation Coweta tie for 4 of these heroes.

The 4 group have been Robert Mitchell Webb Jr., Daniel Zachary Post, Jr., Homer Lefterage Pease as well as John Tillman Dozier II.

We have been asking readers to pass along any report they have about these 4 group which competence yield the family tie or any alternative reason which explains their inventory as Cowetans killed in Vietnam.

Here’s what we know so far:

Daniel Zachary Post, Jr. is buried in Newnan’s Oak Hill Tomb, though his “home of record” listed by the Department of Defense Department is Brownsville, Tx. He was innate Jan. sixteen, 1943 as well as was portion as the Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps when he died in Vietnam upon Jul 31, 1966.

Recently, Quesinberry got the little report upon Post when the internal adult told him she believed Dan Post, Jr. was the son of Dan Post as well as Ansley Manget, who lived in Newnan prior to relocating to Brownsville, Tx., where Dan, Jr. was born.

Dan Post’s sister might have lived quickly in Newnan with her parents mother, Lucille Manget, as well as might have attended Newnan High. Both Dan Post, Jr. as well as his sister have been believed to be buried in the tomb tract of their grandfather, Newnan string businessman Victor Manget.

Robert Mitchell Webb, Jr. is additionally buried in Newnan’s Oak Hill Cemetery. He is listed as the Cowetan killed in Vietnam in the Coweta County story as well as upon memorial plaques during the 1904 Coweta County Courthouse as well as the Newnan Veterans Plaza upon Jackson St.

Webb was the First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the time of his genocide, though investigate has not suggested any Coweta tie to Webb, whose “home of record” is shown upon Defense Department papers as Columbus, Ga.

Webb was innate Jul eleven, 1945 as well as died in Vietnam upon Oct. seventeen, 1971.

No report has been found joining John Tillman Dozier II to Coweta County. Department of Defense annals list Dozier’s “home of record” as Atlanta. He was innate Mar twenty-four, 1951 as well as died in Vietnam upon Jun eighteen, 1971 whilst portion as the Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army.

Homer Lefterage Pease, whose “home of record” is listed by the Department of Defense as Johnson City, Tn., was innate Might eighteen, 1929 as well as was portion as the Major in the U.S. Army when he died in Vietnam upon Nov nineteen, 1966.

If we have any report about these 4 group, greatfully hit the Times-Herald as well as discuss it us what we know. Be certain to embody any photographs, papers or family annals which will assistance us finish the chronological jot down so which destiny generations will have the clearer design of how these 4 group were continuous to Coweta County.

Please mail report to: Attn: Alex McRae, The Times-Herald, P.O. Box 1052, Newnan, GA 30264, or dump it by the bureau, located during sixteen Jefferson St. in downtown Newnan.

With your assistance, these 4 mysteries can be solved. We can’t wait for to listen to from you.