TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PIKE COUNTY COURIER, JANUARY 18, 1918 P. 1
24 Co. 156 Depot Brigage,
Camp Jackson, S. C.
Jan. 13th, 1918.
Dear friends and relatives:
I hope you all are enjoying the bright new year, of 1918. Every thing is normal here, except for a few cases of mumps. “Call me back to old Arkansas, there’s where the cotton and the corn and potatoes grow, there’s where the birds warble sweet in the spring time, there’s where my heart is longing to go.
There’s where I labored for the advancement of the girls and boys, day after day in the school rooms of old Pike, no place I love on earth more sincerely than old Arkansas, the state where I was born. Call me back to old Arkansas, there’s where the loving school children are, there’s where the Pike’s voters are, and there’s where my heart is longing to go.
Best wishes to all. I remain your soldier friend.
Joe Dolphus Barker.
NOTES: Joe Dolphus Barker was born October 9, 1891 at Delight, Arkansas and died November 2, 1918 at New Hope, New York. He is buried in the Delight Cemetery at Delight, Arkansas. His cause of death as reported by the New York death listing was tuberculosis. His draft card listed him as a carpenter for the Mo P. R. R. He was described as being tall and of medium build with blue eyes and black hair. The WW I Memorial on the Pike County court house lawn lists him as Adolphus Barker. His head stone identifies him as Sgt. Joe Dolphus Barker.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.
24 Co. 156 Depot Brigage,
Camp Jackson, S. C.
Jan. 13th, 1918.
Dear friends and relatives:
I hope you all are enjoying the bright new year, of 1918. Every thing is normal here, except for a few cases of mumps. “Call me back to old Arkansas, there’s where the cotton and the corn and potatoes grow, there’s where the birds warble sweet in the spring time, there’s where my heart is longing to go.
There’s where I labored for the advancement of the girls and boys, day after day in the school rooms of old Pike, no place I love on earth more sincerely than old Arkansas, the state where I was born. Call me back to old Arkansas, there’s where the loving school children are, there’s where the Pike’s voters are, and there’s where my heart is longing to go.
Best wishes to all. I remain your soldier friend.
Joe Dolphus Barker.
NOTES: Joe Dolphus Barker was born October 9, 1891 at Delight, Arkansas and died November 2, 1918 at New Hope, New York. He is buried in the Delight Cemetery at Delight, Arkansas. His cause of death as reported by the New York death listing was tuberculosis. His draft card listed him as a carpenter for the Mo P. R. R. He was described as being tall and of medium build with blue eyes and black hair. The WW I Memorial on the Pike County court house lawn lists him as Adolphus Barker. His head stone identifies him as Sgt. Joe Dolphus Barker.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.