Frisco is a Purple Heart City, and August 7 is National Purple Heart Day. The Purple Heart medal dates back to the earliest days of George Washington and our new nation’s Army but was not used much between the early 1800s and the early 1930s. The […]
United States ArmyPrivate James F. Sparkman (September 9, 1881 – February 5, 1918), U.S. Army, was headed to England in 1918 to join the fighting underway during the Great War. He was 26 […]
Elmer Eslick Parks (July 22, 1888 – May 12, 1943), like his brother Frank Parks, also served in the United States Army during World War I. Both were nephews of the Wagoner Family with whom they lived on Maple Street in Frisco before their […]
Corporal Franklin H. Chandler (March 2, 1888 – April 25, 1955) served with the 59th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division during World War I and was wounded in Europe in 1918. We do not yet have the exact date he was wounded, but he was […]
Private First Class Grover Ellis Turner (July 26, 1891 – May 27, 1952) was the son of George and Amanda Turner of Frisco and served in the United State Army during World War I from September 17, 1917 to March 18, 1919. He was a part […]