TRANSCRIBED FROM THE JUDSONIA ADANCE SEPTEMBER 18, 1918 P. 1
Mrs. Gertie Matlock,
Judsonia, Ark.
Dear Sister:
I will try to write you a few lines. I hope you all are well. I am well only I have lost two of my fingers. I was up at the Big Front helping run the Huns and they sent me a shell I could not dodge but I got plenty of them to pay for my fingers anyway. I would like to see you but I don’t guess that I can for a while. I am in a good hospital. I have been here two weeks. I was wounded on the second of August. I guess you can read this. Some of it is written with my left hand as it is my right hand that is wounded and it is some difficult to write with it. That is why I have not written to you sooner. I have not heard from any of you since the first of July and you wrote that in June. Well I will close hoping to hear from you all soon. Tell all of the folks hello for me, so bye-bye.
Your brother,
Private Homer C. Grissom,
Co. G. 126 Inf., Base Hospital 30, A. E. F. France.
NOTES: Homer Cam Grissom was born on August 7, 1891 in Powhatan, Arkansas and died on September 18, 1968 in Judsonia, Arkansas. He is buried in the Salem Cemetery in Searcy, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the 126th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
Mrs. Gertie Matlock,
Judsonia, Ark.
Dear Sister:
I will try to write you a few lines. I hope you all are well. I am well only I have lost two of my fingers. I was up at the Big Front helping run the Huns and they sent me a shell I could not dodge but I got plenty of them to pay for my fingers anyway. I would like to see you but I don’t guess that I can for a while. I am in a good hospital. I have been here two weeks. I was wounded on the second of August. I guess you can read this. Some of it is written with my left hand as it is my right hand that is wounded and it is some difficult to write with it. That is why I have not written to you sooner. I have not heard from any of you since the first of July and you wrote that in June. Well I will close hoping to hear from you all soon. Tell all of the folks hello for me, so bye-bye.
Your brother,
Private Homer C. Grissom,
Co. G. 126 Inf., Base Hospital 30, A. E. F. France.
NOTES: Homer Cam Grissom was born on August 7, 1891 in Powhatan, Arkansas and died on September 18, 1968 in Judsonia, Arkansas. He is buried in the Salem Cemetery in Searcy, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the 126th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY