TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BOONEVILLE DEMOCRAT AUGUST 20, 1918 P 1
Aix Les Bain, France,
July 10, 1918.
Mrs. G. L. Ferguson,
Booneville, Arkansas.
Dear Mother:
How is every one at home? Fine I hope. At last I got my ten day furlough that I have been telling you about. Have been here since the Fourth and have been having a nice time taking trips up in the mountains, and boat trips on the lakes.
Have certainly been enjoying myself. The Y.M.C.A. have treated the boys royally here, every day trips to every place of interest and every night in the Y.M.C.A. there is something doing to make a fellow enjoy the evening. All kinds of games, shows, dancing, and everything to make the time pleasant for the A.E.F. men on leave.
And mother, the trip down here is the most wonderful one I have ever had the pleasure of ___. I stopped over in Lyons for 24 hours on my way down here. That is also a great place and is more like an American city than any place I have ever been in since I left the U.S.
Well. Mother, it is about 10 a.m. and a trip leaves here at 10:20 for the mountains and I don’t want to get left for there is no telling when I will get another leave so I will close for this one time and will write you again soon, when I get back to camp I will write you my entire trip. I mail you two or three cards every day. So lots of love to all at home and I hope I will have a line or so from mother waiting for me when I get back to camp.
Lots of love,
P. O. Ferguson,
Co. B 13th Eng.
NOTES: Paul Oscar Ferguson was born on February 3, 1896 at Madison, Arkansas and died on October 22, 1962 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is buried in the Murdock-Linwood Cemetery at Cedar Rapids. His military headstone identifies him as an Iowa, PFC Co. B 13 Engineers in World War I. He was a railroad switchman for the Rock Island Railroad and enlisted in Co. B from Booneville, Arkansas. A letter written by his brother, Omer Pascus Ferguson is posted on this website.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
Aix Les Bain, France,
July 10, 1918.
Mrs. G. L. Ferguson,
Booneville, Arkansas.
Dear Mother:
How is every one at home? Fine I hope. At last I got my ten day furlough that I have been telling you about. Have been here since the Fourth and have been having a nice time taking trips up in the mountains, and boat trips on the lakes.
Have certainly been enjoying myself. The Y.M.C.A. have treated the boys royally here, every day trips to every place of interest and every night in the Y.M.C.A. there is something doing to make a fellow enjoy the evening. All kinds of games, shows, dancing, and everything to make the time pleasant for the A.E.F. men on leave.
And mother, the trip down here is the most wonderful one I have ever had the pleasure of ___. I stopped over in Lyons for 24 hours on my way down here. That is also a great place and is more like an American city than any place I have ever been in since I left the U.S.
Well. Mother, it is about 10 a.m. and a trip leaves here at 10:20 for the mountains and I don’t want to get left for there is no telling when I will get another leave so I will close for this one time and will write you again soon, when I get back to camp I will write you my entire trip. I mail you two or three cards every day. So lots of love to all at home and I hope I will have a line or so from mother waiting for me when I get back to camp.
Lots of love,
P. O. Ferguson,
Co. B 13th Eng.
NOTES: Paul Oscar Ferguson was born on February 3, 1896 at Madison, Arkansas and died on October 22, 1962 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is buried in the Murdock-Linwood Cemetery at Cedar Rapids. His military headstone identifies him as an Iowa, PFC Co. B 13 Engineers in World War I. He was a railroad switchman for the Rock Island Railroad and enlisted in Co. B from Booneville, Arkansas. A letter written by his brother, Omer Pascus Ferguson is posted on this website.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT