TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SCOTT COUNTY ADVANCE REPORTER MARCH 27, 1919 P. 6
U.S. Army, in France.
Jan. 28, 1919.
Miss Bulah Huckaby,
Dear Sis:
How are you, just fine I hope. I am all ok and hope you the same. Kid how are you and your old fellow getting slong by this time fine and dandy I guess ha, ha.
Say, you ought to see my German girl, she is a peach. She has one blue eye and the other is white. Believe me she is some what of a girl ha! ha!
Say kid I have got to go supper, run and get your musket and fall in line with me and let’s go to supper. I sure sure will be glad when I won’t have to fall in line to get my chow. Well I tell you the rest when I get back so wait till I eat supper.
Hello kid here I come again I sure had a good supper and you bet I feel lot’s better and if you don’t tell me how my girl is getting along I will come over and give you the worst whipping you ever got ha! ha!
Well kid if you hear any body crying to night you may know who it is for I am on guard and it sure is cold. I will do some of the turbliest crying you ever heard ha ha
Say you can tell Dero I sure would love to hear from him I’m over here among the dutch girls and there sure is some good looking ones too.
Well I will bring this thing to a close hopping to hear from you soon so be good. As ever your bud.
Pvt. Richard Huckaby.
NOTES: Jacob Richard Huckaby was born in Puryear, Arkansas on September 22, 1892 and died in Le Flore County, Oklahoma on December 5, 1966. He is buried in the Coaldale Cemetery in Coaldale, Arkansas. He departed from Brooklyn, NY on September 30, 1918 onboard the Ulysses. He was a Pvt. serving in the Camp Pike September Automatic Replacement Draft Co. 24 Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
U.S. Army, in France.
Jan. 28, 1919.
Miss Bulah Huckaby,
Dear Sis:
How are you, just fine I hope. I am all ok and hope you the same. Kid how are you and your old fellow getting slong by this time fine and dandy I guess ha, ha.
Say, you ought to see my German girl, she is a peach. She has one blue eye and the other is white. Believe me she is some what of a girl ha! ha!
Say kid I have got to go supper, run and get your musket and fall in line with me and let’s go to supper. I sure sure will be glad when I won’t have to fall in line to get my chow. Well I tell you the rest when I get back so wait till I eat supper.
Hello kid here I come again I sure had a good supper and you bet I feel lot’s better and if you don’t tell me how my girl is getting along I will come over and give you the worst whipping you ever got ha! ha!
Well kid if you hear any body crying to night you may know who it is for I am on guard and it sure is cold. I will do some of the turbliest crying you ever heard ha ha
Say you can tell Dero I sure would love to hear from him I’m over here among the dutch girls and there sure is some good looking ones too.
Well I will bring this thing to a close hopping to hear from you soon so be good. As ever your bud.
Pvt. Richard Huckaby.
NOTES: Jacob Richard Huckaby was born in Puryear, Arkansas on September 22, 1892 and died in Le Flore County, Oklahoma on December 5, 1966. He is buried in the Coaldale Cemetery in Coaldale, Arkansas. He departed from Brooklyn, NY on September 30, 1918 onboard the Ulysses. He was a Pvt. serving in the Camp Pike September Automatic Replacement Draft Co. 24 Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD