Medal of Honor recipient Darwin Keith "Gus" Kyle (June 1, 1921 - February 16, 1951) was born in Jenkins, Kentucky, to Charlie and Pearl Keffer Kyle and raised in Midway, Boone County from the time he was two years old. Note that some sources, including official records, incorrectly list his birth year as 1918. His gravestone reads 1921.

He enlisted in the Army in 1939. During World War II, he fought in France and Germany, earning both the Silver and Bronze stars for a single-handed operation that destroyed several tanks and saved the lives of comrades. All told, he would dedicate 10 years of his life to the military.

On July 15, 1944, he married Betty Alice Totten in Kanawha County. The couple had two daughters, Donna Kay and Nancy Carol, and lived in Racine, Boone County, after his discharge in August 1945.

He reenlisted in the Army in July 1947 and was assigned to the 6th Infantry Division in Korea as part of the occupation force. When the Korean War broke out in June 1950, Master Sergeant Kyle was assigned to Fort Devens, Massachusetts. In September 1950, Kyle's unit, Company K, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division, was sent to Korea. During the retreat at the port city of Hungnam in December 1950, Kyle was credited with moving injured men to safety while under gunfire. For his heroism and leadership abilities, Kyle received a battlefield promotion to second lieutenant in January 1951.

On February 16, 1951, the new platoon leader was given orders to remove Chinese defenders from their position near Kamil-ni northeast of Suwon. In an intense exchange between the American and Chinese forces on "Hamburger Hill," Kyle took out one emplacement with a grenade and killed the three-man crew. He killed four enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat before being shot and killed. A comrade, Sergeant James D. Yeomans, later described Kyle as "the bravest man I ever saw."

Major David M. Cleary of the West Virginia Military District presented Kyle's posthumous Medal of Honor to Betty Kyle and their two daughters on January 16, 1952. At the time, the Kyles were listed as living in South Charleston.

A school in South Charleston was named in his honor in 1955, and in May 1996, the "Kroger Bridge" in Madison was named the Lt. Darwin K. Kyle Memorial Bridge. Due to weight restrictions, the bridge was replaced and rededicated in Kyle’s name in 2023.

Kyle was buried in Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery in South Charleston on September 27, 1951.