TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT FEBRUARY 22, 1919 P. 1
Jan. 26th, 1919.
My Dear Sister and All:
I will write you a few lines to let you know that I am well. I hope this will find you all the same. Martha, I am getting fat as a hog over here. Only weighed 113 pounds when you saw me last and now I weigh 150 pounds. I haven’t been sick since I have been here. I don’t suppose my Willie will know me when I get back. But, tell the girls to look for me, for I am coming and don’t believe it will be very much longer. We are about nine miles from Bordeaux. I think that is the place that we will take the boat. I think we will leave here in February some time. I hope so any way.
This is a warm country over here. We haven’t any snow, but plenty of rain.
I suppose Floyd is back across the pond by now. I saw a fellow today that came across with him and he said the he thought he had gone back to the dear old U.S.A. I sure hope he has.
I am having a very good time over here. There are some good looking girls over here but I can’t talk to them. Willie has got it on me now, for she can talk to the boys there, ha! ha!
Martha, tell Henry he ought to be over here. He could get all the wine, beer and whiskey he could drink, if he could keep enough franks to buy it with. I am just about broke now, but I think it will soon be pay day again. I spend my money just as fast as pay day comes, for I am in town every night. I have been nearly all over France. I got off at Brest, and I can’t think of all the towns I have been in since. I will send you some pictures of the towns over here. I will send you some pictures of the towns over here.
I had better close for this time. Tell all hello for me and tell the girls I will soon be home. I will soon be home.
Private John. H. Epperson,
Co. G. 158th Inf., A.P.O. 788, A.E.F.
NOTES: John Henry Epperson was born in Fulton County, Arkansas on August 25, 1896 and died on January 24, 1931. He is buried in the Coffeyville Cemetery in Coffeyville, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Private serving in 158th Infantry 40th Division. He sailed to France onboard the San Francisco. He was serving as a Private in Camp Pike October Automatic Replacement Draft Co. 6.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Jan. 26th, 1919.
My Dear Sister and All:
I will write you a few lines to let you know that I am well. I hope this will find you all the same. Martha, I am getting fat as a hog over here. Only weighed 113 pounds when you saw me last and now I weigh 150 pounds. I haven’t been sick since I have been here. I don’t suppose my Willie will know me when I get back. But, tell the girls to look for me, for I am coming and don’t believe it will be very much longer. We are about nine miles from Bordeaux. I think that is the place that we will take the boat. I think we will leave here in February some time. I hope so any way.
This is a warm country over here. We haven’t any snow, but plenty of rain.
I suppose Floyd is back across the pond by now. I saw a fellow today that came across with him and he said the he thought he had gone back to the dear old U.S.A. I sure hope he has.
I am having a very good time over here. There are some good looking girls over here but I can’t talk to them. Willie has got it on me now, for she can talk to the boys there, ha! ha!
Martha, tell Henry he ought to be over here. He could get all the wine, beer and whiskey he could drink, if he could keep enough franks to buy it with. I am just about broke now, but I think it will soon be pay day again. I spend my money just as fast as pay day comes, for I am in town every night. I have been nearly all over France. I got off at Brest, and I can’t think of all the towns I have been in since. I will send you some pictures of the towns over here. I will send you some pictures of the towns over here.
I had better close for this time. Tell all hello for me and tell the girls I will soon be home. I will soon be home.
Private John. H. Epperson,
Co. G. 158th Inf., A.P.O. 788, A.E.F.
NOTES: John Henry Epperson was born in Fulton County, Arkansas on August 25, 1896 and died on January 24, 1931. He is buried in the Coffeyville Cemetery in Coffeyville, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Private serving in 158th Infantry 40th Division. He sailed to France onboard the San Francisco. He was serving as a Private in Camp Pike October Automatic Replacement Draft Co. 6.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD