TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GREEN FOREST TRIBUNE SEPTEMBER 27, 1918 P. 2
Dear Homefolks:
I will try and write you a few lines this morning. How are you all by now? I am fine and dandy I don’t know but I suppose I have been assigned to the coast artillery. I am on an Island along the Gulf Coast at the entrance of Mobile Bay. We had a nice ride on the Bay coming down here; was on the water about 4 hours. It sure is nice riding.
t don’t seem so very hot here today don’t know how hot it does get. There are lots of mosquitoes here an I think I could get along just as well without them.
I want you to send me the last Tribune and have my address changed so I will get it regular.
Say have you heard from my Insurance papers yet? And have you heard from my Agriculture papers? Well I guess I will ring off for this time for I don’t know anything much to write. All my letters are censored now.
Write and tell me all the news and send my papers as soon as you get them.
Love to all,
Otto,
My address: Theddie O. Duncan,
Ft. Gains, Dauphin Island, Ala.
NOTES: Duncan was born in Yocum, Arkansas on December 14, 1894 and died in Green Forest, Arkansas on December 25, 1977. He is buried in the Pickens Cemetery in Green Forest. He was a lifelong rural mail carrier At the time of the letter was serving in the Coastal Artillery.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
Dear Homefolks:
I will try and write you a few lines this morning. How are you all by now? I am fine and dandy I don’t know but I suppose I have been assigned to the coast artillery. I am on an Island along the Gulf Coast at the entrance of Mobile Bay. We had a nice ride on the Bay coming down here; was on the water about 4 hours. It sure is nice riding.
t don’t seem so very hot here today don’t know how hot it does get. There are lots of mosquitoes here an I think I could get along just as well without them.
I want you to send me the last Tribune and have my address changed so I will get it regular.
Say have you heard from my Insurance papers yet? And have you heard from my Agriculture papers? Well I guess I will ring off for this time for I don’t know anything much to write. All my letters are censored now.
Write and tell me all the news and send my papers as soon as you get them.
Love to all,
Otto,
My address: Theddie O. Duncan,
Ft. Gains, Dauphin Island, Ala.
NOTES: Duncan was born in Yocum, Arkansas on December 14, 1894 and died in Green Forest, Arkansas on December 25, 1977. He is buried in the Pickens Cemetery in Green Forest. He was a lifelong rural mail carrier At the time of the letter was serving in the Coastal Artillery.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY