TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GREEN FOREST TRIBUNE SEPTEMBER 17, 1918 P. 2
Somewhere
Dear Homefolks:
I will write you all a few lines today. This leaves me all right; hope you all the same.
I have enjoyed my trip fine. I am a long ways from home, don’t know where I am, but I don’t worry about that at all. I have never been uneasy but what I would get back all right. I have seen many new things but I can’t say much about them. Don’t worry about me I am in good health and having a good time.
I will be back some time. I have gotten far enough away I can wear my over coat. It is pretty cold up here but we have the best of clothes.
Well you take care of our place just as you see fit. Clarence and I made a trade if one didn’t get back the other one would get the place. It wasn’t because we think more of each other than we do you all but we thot it would be right. I think maybe I can write again in a few days; don’t look for a letter every few days, it may be a month before you get any more from me. It takes so long for a letter to go from here to there. I think I will get four letters soon. Be sure and get the address plain.
From your son and brother
James QuencyEdmondson
11 Co. J. A R. D.
A.E.F. via New York.
NOTES: Edmondson was born in Salem, Missouri on January 13, 1894 and died in Favetteville, Arkansas on May 26, 1956. He is buried in the Fairview Memorial Gardens in Favetteville. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the US Army during WWI. His name was likely spelled “Quincy.”
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Somewhere
Dear Homefolks:
I will write you all a few lines today. This leaves me all right; hope you all the same.
I have enjoyed my trip fine. I am a long ways from home, don’t know where I am, but I don’t worry about that at all. I have never been uneasy but what I would get back all right. I have seen many new things but I can’t say much about them. Don’t worry about me I am in good health and having a good time.
I will be back some time. I have gotten far enough away I can wear my over coat. It is pretty cold up here but we have the best of clothes.
Well you take care of our place just as you see fit. Clarence and I made a trade if one didn’t get back the other one would get the place. It wasn’t because we think more of each other than we do you all but we thot it would be right. I think maybe I can write again in a few days; don’t look for a letter every few days, it may be a month before you get any more from me. It takes so long for a letter to go from here to there. I think I will get four letters soon. Be sure and get the address plain.
From your son and brother
James QuencyEdmondson
11 Co. J. A R. D.
A.E.F. via New York.
NOTES: Edmondson was born in Salem, Missouri on January 13, 1894 and died in Favetteville, Arkansas on May 26, 1956. He is buried in the Fairview Memorial Gardens in Favetteville. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the US Army during WWI. His name was likely spelled “Quincy.”
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD