On May 14, 2010, at 12:00 noon, the Madison County Sheriff's Office, Jackson Police Department, and the Eighth District of Tennessee Highway Patrol sponsored a memorial service for those officers killed in the line of duty.
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The purpose is to honor the officers who died and their surviving family members. We want to let the family members know that we, in law enforcement, will not forget those officers that made the ultimate sacrifice in protecting this community and beyond.
Listed below are the following officers that were killed in the line of duty:
“Lest We Forget”
• Officer Newton C. Perkins, Jackson Police Department
End of Watch - July 13, 1876
• Officer John T. Johns, Jackson Police Department
End of Watch - December 22, 1931
• Deputy Joe Edwards, Madison County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch – December 10, 1932
• Officer Arthur Gurley, Lexington Police Department
End of Watch – August 6, 1954
• Trooper Joseph Emanuel Dillard, Tennessee Highway Patrol
End of Watch – September 15, 1964
• Officer Hugh E. Eubanks, Bolivar Police Department
End of Watch – March 17, 1975
• Chief of Police Richard Carrington, Lexington Police Department
End of Watch – September 25, 1981
• Inspector Timothy McCaghren, U.S. Customs Service
End of Watch – February 19, 1990
• Deputy Douglas G. Nanney, Madison County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch – May 24, 1991
• Sr. Corporal Lawrence Bromley, Dallas Police Department
End of Watch – December 11, 1991
• Trooper George Van Dorse Holcomb, Tennessee Highway Patrol
End of Watch – January 26, 1992
• Trooper Bobby Maples, Tennessee Highway Patrol
End of Watch – November 5, 1999
• Trooper Lynn McCarthy Ross, Tennessee Highway Patrol
End of Watch – July 26, 2000
• Sergeant Andy T. Bailey, Jackson Police Department
End of Watch – June 17, 2004
• Officer Kay Frances Rogers, Murfreesboro Police Department
End of Watch – November 9, 2005
• Captain Dennis Cagle, Henderson Police Department
End of Watch – December 13, 2009
