TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN OCTOBER 14, 1917 P. 4
There are only a few men there, just the old and disabled ones. The rest are at the front. Nine out of ten of the women wear deep mourning, indicating a husband or brother has been killed.
U.S.S. Pocahontas, care Postmaster, New York city.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Cecil Morris Hiatt. He was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hiatt of Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was born on April 26, 1896 in Charleston, Arkansas and died August 19, 1965 in Texarkana, Arkansas. He is buried in the State Line Cemetery in Texarkana. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas, Sea US Navy, serving in world War I. He enlisted April 6, 1917 and served two years on the U.S.S. Pocahontas making 13 round trips across the Atlantic Ocean. He was writing about his first trip across where the ship was attacked by a submarine and his arrival at a French port.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
There are only a few men there, just the old and disabled ones. The rest are at the front. Nine out of ten of the women wear deep mourning, indicating a husband or brother has been killed.
U.S.S. Pocahontas, care Postmaster, New York city.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Cecil Morris Hiatt. He was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hiatt of Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was born on April 26, 1896 in Charleston, Arkansas and died August 19, 1965 in Texarkana, Arkansas. He is buried in the State Line Cemetery in Texarkana. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas, Sea US Navy, serving in world War I. He enlisted April 6, 1917 and served two years on the U.S.S. Pocahontas making 13 round trips across the Atlantic Ocean. He was writing about his first trip across where the ship was attacked by a submarine and his arrival at a French port.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT