Donation to help fund WWII monument

Cleveland Frost Post 50 of The American Legion donated $1,000 to the Madison County Historical Society to honor Madison County’s WWII casualties. 

Names to be listed on the monument represent those on active duty serving in all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces whose deaths resulting resulted directly from enemy action or from operational activities against the enemy in war zones from Dec. 7, 1941 through Sept. 2, 1945. 

Names for the monument were taken from the “Kentucky WWII Honor List of Dead and Missing” published by the U.S. War Department in 1946 as well as a list of Madison County casualties published in “Madison County in World War II, General Marshall – Victory Report,” and other sources including newspaper articles, previously unknown headstones, and cenotaphs placed in family cemetery plots of Madison County. 

Most of the men likely were farm children who grew up in rural areas of the county or worked in the family businesses. It is important to remember that these veterans, whose ages ranged from 17-51, and made the ultimate sacrifice. The monument will be black granite with white lettering. It will measure 48x72 and will be placed on the Madison County Courthouse lawn on the Second Street side. Madison County Fiscal Court will provide the base and concrete path around the monument with benches located in front of the monument. The estimated cost of the monument will be $12,500. 

Donations can be made to the Madison County Historical Society, P.O. Box 397 Richmond, Kentucky 40476.