Bill Text: WV SCR26 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: US Army PFC Thomas Mayford Martin Memorial Bridge

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-03-10 - House Message received [SCR26 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2018-SCR26-Introduced.html

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 26

(By Senators Jeffries, Drennan, Gaunch, Swope, Stollings, Beach, and Plymale)

[Introduced February 15, 2018]

 

Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 40-6-5.97 (40A122), locally known as Eighteen-Mile Creek Bridge 5.97, carrying County Route 6 over Eighteen-Mile Creek in Putnam County, the “U. S. Army PFC Thomas Mayford Martin Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Thomas Mayford Martin was born September 22, 1927, in Gay, Roane County, West Virginia, then moved to a home built by his father on the banks of Eighteen-Mile Creek.  He was the son of Fred M. Martin and Sadie Fay Archer; and

Whereas, Thomas Mayford Martin learned to swim in Eighteen-Mile Creek. He fished, hunted, and trapped along the creek most of his life; and

Whereas, Thomas Mayford Martin graduated from Buffalo High School, class of 1945, and enlisted in the U. S. Army on October 23, 1950; and

Whereas, PFC Thomas Mayford Martin saw combat in Korea in the Army’s 24th Infantry Division, 21st Infantry Regiment, where he drove an ammunition truck to the front lines of the combat zone.  The truck had an open cab and he often drove at night on mountain roads with no headlights; and

Whereas, PFC Thomas Mayford Martin carried with him to Korea a license plate which read “Mountaineers Are Always Free”.  He proudly displayed the license on the ammunition truck he drove.  His family still have a picture taken of the license on the truck in Korea, and still have the license; and

Whereas, Following military service, PFC Thomas Mayford Martin married, raised a family, and worked for many years with the Division of Highways serving as an inspector and a project supervisor in district one. In 1996, he worked as a strip mine reclamation inspector. Thomas Mayford Martin died in December of 1998; and

Whereas, It is appropriate that this bridge over Eighteen-Mile Creek be dedicated to the memory of this veteran; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 40-6-5.97 (40A122), locally known as Eighteen-Mile Creek Bridge 5.97, carrying County Route 6 over Eighteen-Mile Creek in Putnam County, the “U. S. Army PFC Thomas Mayford Martin Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the “U. S. Army PFC Thomas Mayford Martin Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.

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