TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DEWITT ENTERPRISE OCTOBER 24, 1918 P. 4
Lee Hall, Va.,
Sept. 26th, 1918
Mrs. Biddie Gravett:
Dear Friend
I will take pleasure in answering your letter I received a few days ago after so long a time. I got two from you, one had been around the world. I was proud to hear from you, it had been so long since I heard from you. This leaves me well and allright. I had a little spell of chills and was in the hospital two weeks. I was treated nice. The Red Cross is allright. I had Red Cross nurses to wait on me while I was sick. They treat the soldier boys when they are on the road. I heard one boy say he had been home on a furlough that they gave him all that he could eat and drink in every town he stopped at where there was any Red Cross. So I assure the Red Cross workers that your work is highly appreciated by the boys in the Camps any way, and I think it is the same everywhere. Everything is about as it has been for some time, only we like it better than I did while it was so warm. We don’t have any Mosquitos to bother us now. I guess things looks lots different now to what they did when I left. I guess the rice men will soon be calling for help. I would like to be there to drive old Shortie and George this fall. I guess Cecil and Joe are spreading it on with their new buggies. How does Burney seem to like the army. Well Biddie, I will have to close. It is a hard matter for me to find any thing to write, it seems like the same old thing over and over to me. I thought times was dull enough at home, but it is worse here but there is a day coming when we will have a good time again. I will be proud when it comes, wont you? Well I will say good bye for this time. Hope this will find you well and enjoying life. Write soon to your true friend.
John D. Huddleston.
NOTES: Huddleston was born on July 16, 1894 and died on June 14, 1959. He is buried in the Forks LaGrue Cemetery in DeWitt, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. 22 Const. Co. Air Srv.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
Lee Hall, Va.,
Sept. 26th, 1918
Mrs. Biddie Gravett:
Dear Friend
I will take pleasure in answering your letter I received a few days ago after so long a time. I got two from you, one had been around the world. I was proud to hear from you, it had been so long since I heard from you. This leaves me well and allright. I had a little spell of chills and was in the hospital two weeks. I was treated nice. The Red Cross is allright. I had Red Cross nurses to wait on me while I was sick. They treat the soldier boys when they are on the road. I heard one boy say he had been home on a furlough that they gave him all that he could eat and drink in every town he stopped at where there was any Red Cross. So I assure the Red Cross workers that your work is highly appreciated by the boys in the Camps any way, and I think it is the same everywhere. Everything is about as it has been for some time, only we like it better than I did while it was so warm. We don’t have any Mosquitos to bother us now. I guess things looks lots different now to what they did when I left. I guess the rice men will soon be calling for help. I would like to be there to drive old Shortie and George this fall. I guess Cecil and Joe are spreading it on with their new buggies. How does Burney seem to like the army. Well Biddie, I will have to close. It is a hard matter for me to find any thing to write, it seems like the same old thing over and over to me. I thought times was dull enough at home, but it is worse here but there is a day coming when we will have a good time again. I will be proud when it comes, wont you? Well I will say good bye for this time. Hope this will find you well and enjoying life. Write soon to your true friend.
John D. Huddleston.
NOTES: Huddleston was born on July 16, 1894 and died on June 14, 1959. He is buried in the Forks LaGrue Cemetery in DeWitt, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. 22 Const. Co. Air Srv.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY