TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MENA WEEKLY STAR FEBRUARY 8, 1919 P 7
I am alive and altogether and I’m thankful to God for it. I‘ll never forget the eleventh day of the eleventh hour and the eleventh month of 1918.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by William Jackson Barber of Opal, Polk County, Arkansas. He was serving in Germany guarding a railroad at Saarburg, near Metz when he wrote on December 30, 1918. He relates he had heard the big shells whizzing overhear and wondering if one had his number on it. He was born on March 8, 1890, Polk County and died on February 8, 1953. He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Ada, Oklahoma. He was described as being of medium height and build with brown eyes and dark hair
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
I am alive and altogether and I’m thankful to God for it. I‘ll never forget the eleventh day of the eleventh hour and the eleventh month of 1918.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by William Jackson Barber of Opal, Polk County, Arkansas. He was serving in Germany guarding a railroad at Saarburg, near Metz when he wrote on December 30, 1918. He relates he had heard the big shells whizzing overhear and wondering if one had his number on it. He was born on March 8, 1890, Polk County and died on February 8, 1953. He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Ada, Oklahoma. He was described as being of medium height and build with brown eyes and dark hair
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT