Private First Class James Wiley Caughron was born July 6, 1923 to Caswell Lafayette and Mary Ellen Sise Caughron in Sevier County. He enlisted in the Army on Nov. 4, 1943 and served in the European theater in Co. C of the 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Division.
According to a Knoxville News Sentinel article at the time, on February 25, 1945, Caughron was wounded in France; he died of these wounds on March 3, 1945. He is buried in Bethel Cemetery in Jones Cove. It was not the first time that PFC James Caughron had been wounded. In October 1944, he had been wounded by artillery shell (abdominal wall) and remained in a military hospital through December 1944 when he was discharged for duty.
Caughron’s brother Luther Eugene Caughron also died in service On Peleliu Island in 1944. James Caughron’s memorial page at the ETVMA may be found here: https://www.etvma.org/veterans/james-w-caughron-10426/
