Military Monday- In Memory of a High School Classmate

Navy Cross

Jerry Eugene Lineberry
Birth: 1941
Death: February 12, 1970
Home: Wadesboro North Carolina
Service: U. S. Marines
Status: KIA

In Remembrance:

From 1950 through 1960 I attended school in Anson County, North Carolina. Our Lilesville High School Class of 1960 was the last Class in the old School and it was eventually torn down and replaced with a new elementary school.
One of our classmates was Jerry Lineberry. Just prior to the Senior year Jerry transferred to Wadesboro and graduated from the high school there; but, for most of our school years we knew Jerry as our classmate.

Like most young men of that era, you either volunteered or was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. Jerry enlisted into the US Navy as a Marine. By the time he reached Vietnam in 1970 I had already served two tours with the Air Force in Thailand. 

On 12 February 1970, while serving as a Platoon Sergeant with Company B, First Battalion, Seventh Marines, 1st Marine Division (Reinforced), in the Que Son Mountains of Quang Nam Province, the Marines came under a heavy fire.

Staff Sergeant Jerry Lineberry led a machine gun team across the fire-swept terrain to take out the enemy position. During this action he was mortally wounded but continue to direct his men until he gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country – his life. Jerry died that February day in a rice paddy while courageously fighting to protect his men and his platoon.[1]

For his extraordinary heroism that day Staff Sergeant Jerry Lineberry was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

You can read the entire citation accompanying this award at: http://goo.gl/iA0Bc

The Navy Cross is the second highest military decoration for valor that may be awarded to a member of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard for extraordinary heroism in combat.[2]









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[1]http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=4216
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Cross
[3] Navy Cross Image courtesy of Wikipedia < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Cross>

A Distinguished Life ~ Reduced to Words

Henry Epps Brown was born 22 May, 1820 to John H. Brown and Sarah Rivers Brown. He died 4 March, 1889 according to this resolution but his tombstone shows he died 11 March, 1889. He was married to Frances A. "Fannie"  Shelton  and they had 5 children - 4 daughters and a son, Henry Clay "Hal" Brown.


Bar Resolution}
Condolence at the}
Death of Hon.}
Henry Brown, Dec’d}

On this day Judge J. B. Moore a member of the Committee appointed to draft suitable resolutions in memory of the Hon. Henry Brown Dec’d by request of said committee presents the following resolution which is by the Court ordered spread .. In full upon the Records and are as follows to wit:
                                                                El Dorado Ark. Sept. 26th 1889
At a meeting of the El Dorado Bar held at the Court House on this day for the purpose of paying Tribute of respect to memory of the Hon. Henry Brown lately a member of this Bar the following proceedings were had.
Judge W. M. VanHook was called to the chair and Wm. D. Jameson elected Secty <sic> of said meeting. On motion Jesse B. Moore, T. J. Gaughan and Wm. D. Jameson were appointed a committee by the chair to draft suitable resolutions in memory of the life and character of deceased And on further motion it was resolved that said committee prepare & present said resolutions to the Circuit County and Probate Courts of Union County. And that a copy of the same be furnished the family of deceased—
                                               Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to remove from the walks of man the Hon. Henry Brown formerly a member of this Bar of long and honorable standing and three times a Judge of the County and Probate Courts of this County, whose death occurred in Howard Co. Arks on the 4th day March 1889. Therefore be it resolve
                                                That in the death of our brother and associate the state of Arkansas has lost a valuable & Estimable Citizen, the Bar an able & distinguished Jurist, Society an honorable member and family a loving husband and devoted father.

2. Resolved—That during the long residence of Judge Brown in our midst covering a period of about thirty years we always recognized in him a true friend & an honest conscientious gentleman devoted to duty in the various walks of life, and that we deplore his untimely death

Jesse B. Moore

T. J. Gaughan

Wm. D. Jameson

Committee

It is ordered that Court adjourn until Court in Course
County & Probate Judge












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[1] Probate Court, Arkansas, Probate Records, 1817-1979,: Volume M (El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas: Probate Court, Union County, Arkansas, 1883–1893), page 395-396.