TN Fallen Firefighters
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* - Indicates name added after original construction and the name appears on a plaque located on the,pedestal below the normal plaque for the year of death.
1876
George H. Smith, Knoxville Fire Department
1880
Edward Leonard, Memphis Fire Department
Peter Meath, Memphis Fire Department
1882
Peter D. Cook, Jackson Fire Department *
1883
Charles B. Davis, Memphis Fire Department
1884
Peter McManus, Memphis Fire Department
1887
Henry Iler, Chattanooga Fire Department
William Peak, Chattanooga Fire Department
1891
Charles F. Werner, Chattanooga Fire Department
1892
Stanley Allen, Nashville Fire Department
H. Ewing, Nashville Fire Department
C. C. Gowdy Nashville Fire Department
1898
R. E. Page, Nashville Fire Department
1900
E. M. Carell, Nashville Fire Department
1903
R. C. Burk, Nashville Fire Department
1904
John J. Dunn, Knoxville Fire Department
Frank C. Harvey, Memphis Fire Department
William F. Maxey, Knoxville Fire Department
1905
William Cox, Memphis Fire Department
George Roger, Nashville Fire Department
1907
Joseph Hiskey, Memphis Fire Department
1910
J. C. Ambrose, Nashville Fire Department
1913
William Nelson, Memphis Fire Department
1917
Henry Henson, Memphis Fire Department
Thomas Meredith, Memphis Fire Department
1918
Frank Campagna, Memphis Fire Department
1920
Mr. Pennington, Nashville Fire Department
Mr. Pinkerton, Nashville Fire Department
1922
Oscar Dillard, Nashville Fire Department
1925
James W. Doyle, Memphis Fire Department
1926
Lloyd C. Scruggs, Knoxville Fire Department
1928
J. C. Flenniken, Knoxville Fire Department
John A. Sullivan, Memphis Fire Department
W. T. Walker, Chattanooga Fire Department
1929
Sam B. Boyd, Knoxville Fire Department
Howard O. Gray, Knoxville Fire Department
Finley C. Puckett, Johnson City Fire Department
William C. Reed, Knoxville Fire Department
Fred M. "Jack Sexton, Knoxville Fire Department
Oscar F. Stell, Memphis Fire Department
1932
Fred Everett Boatman, Knoxville Fire Department
Henry Clay Lawless, Knoxville Fire Department
Raymond H. "Shorty Nash, Knoxville Fire Department
1933
Johnson Van Tien, Nashville Fire Department
Charles E. Youngblood, Knoxville Fire Department
1934
Robert H. Alexander, Memphis Fire Department
Henry Brenner, Memphis Fire Department
James B. Faulkenberry, Memphis Fire Department
Wix J. Fowler, Memphis Fire Department
Truman Hill, Nashville Fire Department
W. H. Norris, Nashville Fire Department
Ralph C. Pierce, Memphis Fire Department
Buddy Reece, Nashville Fire Department
1935
Bryon M. Webb, Dyersburg Fire Department
1936
Tom F. Heagerty, Knoxville Fire Department
William C. Kavanaugh, Memphis Fire Department
Louie A. McCaughan, Knoxville Fire Department
1937
Perry A. Gillespie, Memphis Fire Department
Joe Keef, Nashville Fire Department
Herbert W. Johnson, Memphis Fire Department
Thomas Madden, Nashville Fire Department
Charles Obenchain, Nashville Fire Department
Clifford Perryman, Memphis Fire Department
1939
A. C. Cartwright, Murfreesboro Fire Department
Ben Christian, Nashville Fire Department
Winfred Vaughn, Murfreesboro Fire Department
1940
Ed Dale, Nashville Fire Department
1942
William L. "Bill Dudley, Dyersburg Fire Department
Pratt Fletcher, Dyersburg Fire Department
Miles N. Mason, Memphis Fire Department
Horace Overholt, Nashville Fire Department
Louis Ryman, Nashville Fire Department
Max Solinski, Nashville Fire Department
S. B. "Shad Sullins, Nashville Fire Department
Earl Vanderford, Memphis Fire Department
Paul Workman, Chattanooga Fire Department
1943
John J. Giardina, Memphis Fire Department
William Scott Popejoy, Jr., Knoxville Fire Department
James Thomas, Chattanooga Fire Department
William Ridge, Chattanooga Fire Department
1944
Raymond Goodrich, Nashville Fire Department
1945
Joe Knight, Nashville Fire Department
1946
Wylie Carell, Nashville Fire Department
Robert W. Fortune, Memphis Fire Department
Henry "Pat Mitchell, Knoxville Fire Department
Otto R. Rahm Jr., Memphis Fire Department
1949
Ray HIcks, Kingsport Fire Department
1951
James H. May, Knoxville Fire Department
1952
Carl Eugene Smith, Knoxville Fire Department
1953
Orvill Hooberry, Nashville Fire Department
Robert Stanford, Tri-Community Fire Department
Hub Steven, Nashville Fire Department
1954
Herman Carden, Tennessee Division of Forestry
J. H. Cooper, Nashville Fire Department
Kenneth Pierce, Tennessee Division of Forestry
Jerry Woods, Tennessee Division of Forestry
1955
Neal Paul Barnett, Pulaski Fire Department
1956
Raymond Parrish, Nashville Fire Department
1958
Charles Coe, Nashville Fire Department
1959
George L. Brister, Memphis Fire Department
Dwight Smith, Memphis Fire Department
George H. Stephens, Nashville Fire Department
Bobby Webb, Union City Fire Department
1960
Marvin Siler, Memphis Fire Department
Claude B. Walker, Clarksville Fire Rescue
1961
Taylor S. Pickett, Memphis Fire Department
Ben Morgan Toon, Fayetteville Fire Department
1962
Daniel H. Dooley, Jr., Memphis Fire Department
Michael W. O'Neill, Memphis Fire Department
1963
Morris Shute, Nashville Fire Department
1965
Roger W. Fitch, Memphis Fire Department
Frank Howell, Columbia Fire Department
1966
Worley Sharp, Knoxville Fire Department
Nelson Hodge, Jackson Fire Department *
1967
George Connel "Pen Wilson, Clarksville Fire Rescue
1968
Milard Luther Bledsoe, U.S. Air Force*
Hubert Powell, Chattanooga Fire Department
1969
Charles P. Bolton, Memphis Fire Department
L.C. "Doc" Newman, Etowah Fire Department*
James W. Patterson, Jackson Fire Department *
1971
Vernon Keel, Nashville Fire Department
1972
Clarence Edwin Laymance, Tennessee Division of Forestry
1974
Michael A. Fletcher, Knoxville Fire Department
1975
James Brown, Harriman Fire Department
Vernon L. Knight, Memphis Fire Department
1976
Jimmy Conger, Paris Landing Volunteer Fire Department
1977
Martiniano R. Lerma, Memphis Fire Department
Henry A. Rutledge, Memphis Fire Department
Joe E. Tarwater, Knoxville Fire Department
1978
Gary Wayne Logan, Dallas Bay Fire Department
Wilbur York, Waverly Fire Department
1979
Steward Gandy, Tri-Community Fire
John T. Hall, Nashville Fire Department
James Lawson, Harriman Fire Department
James Lee Graham, Tennessee Division of Forestry
1980
David Allen Bond, Byrdstown/Pickett County Fire Department
Donald W. King, Memphis Fire Department
Charles E. Lovell, Nashville Fire Department
Denis Wayne McCloud, Chattanooga Fire Department*
Edward Montgomery, Nashville Fire Department*
Frank Willie Walker, Tennessee Division of Forestry
1981
Earl "Ray Harrison, Clarksville Fire Rescue
Eugene Nation, Tennessee Division of Forestry
Archie C. Reed, Cheatham County Fire Department
William H. Shields, Tennessee Division of Forestry
1982
Ricky L. Hitchcox, Dunlap Volunteer Fire Department
J. Wendell Organ, Lebanon-Wilson County Civil Defense
Charles H. Vinson, Memphis Fire Department
1983
Thomas Girdley, Crossville Fire Department
1984
Michael Dwayne Caldwell, DeKalb Co. Fire Department
Milton A. Densford, Memphis Fire Department
Willis D. Fry, Sweetwater Fire Department
Cedric Gatlin, Jackson Fire Department *
Jimmy R. Kennedy, Memphis Fire Department
1985
James L. Craig, Memphis Fire Department
1986
Robert K. Bell, Tennessee Division of Forestry
Carl A. Bettis, Jr., Chattanooga Fire Department
1987
Robert O. Binkley, Nashville Fire Department
Bobby Gene Blackley, Memphis Fire Department
James Clayton George, Shelbyville Fire Department
1988
Charles J. Berry, Kingsport Fire Department
George Harold Carathers, Sr., Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department
Alex J. Sparks, Bellevue Volunteer Fire Department
1989
Eddie D. Diviney, Nashville Fire Department
David A. McCollum, Bradley County Fire Department
David Ellis Pratt, Flat Creek Volunteer Fire Department
1990
Robbie Davis, Newmansville Volunteer Fire Department
1991
James T. Swindle, Sumner County Volunteer Fire Department
1993
Joseph A. Boswell, Memphis Fire Department
James D. Hill, Memphis Fire Department
Mark R. Hinson, Sr., Paris Landing Volunteer Fire Department
1994
William E. Bridges, Memphis Fire Department
Edward L. Freeman, Memphis Fire Department
Michael L. Mathis, Memphis Fire Department
Dwight E. Smith, Memphis Fire Department
1995
Corey Berggren, Knoxville Volunteer Rescue Squad
Henry Frizzell, Tennessee Division of Forestry
Wilbur Pinnell, Winchester Fire Department
Gene Schubert, Harriman Fire Department
Ronnie Wilson, Tennessee Division of Forestry
1996
William Clark Derryberry, Maury County Fire Department
1997
Scott M. Berry, Bradley Co. Volunteer Fire Department
Tracy D. Floyd, Winchester Fire Department
William Thomas Wilson, Pinecrest Volunteer Fire Department
1998
Larry Joe King, Sr., Maury City Fire Department
Paul P. Satterfield, Nashville Fire Department
2000
William M. Blakemore, Memphis Fire Department
Javier Lerma, Memphis Fire Department
2001
Debra Sinard, White Pine Volunteer Fire Department
Harold "Bear Strode, Tennessee Division of Forestry
2002
Jason Kevin Jackson Hampton, Almaville Volunteer Fire Department
Dennis L. Harris, Mt. Vernon Volunteer Fire Department
Richard A. Majors, Nashville Fire Department
Thomas "Shane Murray, Jefferson City Fire Department
Robert Glen Poore, Briceville Volunteer Fire Department
2003
Robert L. "Buddy" Blankenship, Knoxville Fire Department
Jason Lee Ellis, Loretto Fire Department
Samuel Lee Green, Shelby County Fire Department
Trent A. Kirk, Memphis Fire Department
Charles A. Zachary, Memphis Fire Department
2004
Grady "Roy Austin, Henderson County Fire Department
Ed Stallings, Carthage Volunteer Fire Department
Robert M. Weber Jr., United States Marine Corps.*
2005
David O'Conner, Memphis Fire Department
Jerry Wayne Hopper, Tennessee Division of Forestry
Wendell A. Jeffrey, Memphis Fire Department
2006
Jeffrey A. Bowman, Chattanooga Fire Department
Mark Stanley, Tennessee Division of Forestry
Garry Tanner, Pleasantville Volunteer Fire and Rescue
2007
Shane Daughetee, Highway 58 Volunteer Fire Department
M. L. Hopper, Tennessee Division of Forestry
Theresa Maria (Kaufmann) Lynn, Luminary Volunteer Fire Department
2009
Timothy A. Byrd, Dover-Stewart Co. Rescue Squad
Christopher Wolkotte, Pinecrest Volunteer Fire Department
2010
Buford Delwin Lee, Marshall County Emergency Management
Jimmy Tuberville, Milledgeville Volunteer Fire Department
2012
Kenny Fox, Decaturville Fire Department
2013
David Michael Schnepp, Carter's Valley Volunteer Fire Department
Richard Floersch, Milan Fire Department
2014
Jerry Campbell, Tennessee Division of Forestry
Gus Loseleben, Hardin County Fire Department
2015
Chris Blankenship, Madison County Fire Department
Terrence Pryor, Memphis Fire Department
2016
Rodney Eddins, Memphis Fire Department
2018
Derrick Webb, Hardy's Chapel Fire Department
Jason Dickey, Lawrenceburg Fire Department