TRANSCRIBED FROM THE POCAHONTAS STAR HERALD FEBRUARY 28, 1919 P. 3
France, Jan. 29, 1919.
Dear wife and home folks:
I will write you all tonight, as I have nothing else to do except to write. And I feel better this week than I have felt in a long time.
You told me that papa had bought a nice little home at Maynard. Did they sell their old home place at Attica? I hope they didn’t for another place will not seem like home to me. How do they like it up there? I didn’t think mamma would leave home, but I guess they moved up there so they could send Gladys to school. That’s one good thing Maynard has, is good schools.
Well, love, I guess you thought I had been hearing from you, but I received my first letter the sixteenth of this month. But I think I will get them oftener now. I sure do hope so anyway.
What did papa do with his mules? I hope he did not sell them, for I want them when I get home.
You said for me to have some pictures made and send some home. I will when I go to town, but it takes fifteen days to get them finished. I may be here that long or longer.
This is a blue old Sunday to me. I haven’t anything to amuse myself with except my testament, but it is good company and has helped me a lot since I have been in training.
Where is Murray working, there or at Biggers? Is pa, Bill, in the bottoms? You said he sold his place in the hills. I didn’t think he would stay long out there, he lived in the bottoms so long.
Has Elmer Bates ever come home? I hope he has, for I sure do know what it is to be in France.
You told me to be good, well I am as good as I can be, for I have quit all my bad habits. I don’t swear play cards, nor drink. I’ll bet there not many of Uncle Sam’s boys that can say that much.
Well, love, my letter is growing long so I must close. I am longing to see my sweet wife and dear mother who are waiting to welcome their soldier home, so I will close hoping to be home soon.
Pvt. Wm. F. Lacy,
Sec. C. Evacuation camp No 1, A.P.O. 701.
NOTES: William Fred Lacy was born on January 24, 1896 in Attica, Arkansas and died on January 27, 1960. He is buried in the Lawrence Memorial Park in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Private serving in the US Army during World War I. He enlisted on may 25, 1918 and was discharged on July 7, 1919. He was writing to his wife Roxie Lorraine Lacy.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
France, Jan. 29, 1919.
Dear wife and home folks:
I will write you all tonight, as I have nothing else to do except to write. And I feel better this week than I have felt in a long time.
You told me that papa had bought a nice little home at Maynard. Did they sell their old home place at Attica? I hope they didn’t for another place will not seem like home to me. How do they like it up there? I didn’t think mamma would leave home, but I guess they moved up there so they could send Gladys to school. That’s one good thing Maynard has, is good schools.
Well, love, I guess you thought I had been hearing from you, but I received my first letter the sixteenth of this month. But I think I will get them oftener now. I sure do hope so anyway.
What did papa do with his mules? I hope he did not sell them, for I want them when I get home.
You said for me to have some pictures made and send some home. I will when I go to town, but it takes fifteen days to get them finished. I may be here that long or longer.
This is a blue old Sunday to me. I haven’t anything to amuse myself with except my testament, but it is good company and has helped me a lot since I have been in training.
Where is Murray working, there or at Biggers? Is pa, Bill, in the bottoms? You said he sold his place in the hills. I didn’t think he would stay long out there, he lived in the bottoms so long.
Has Elmer Bates ever come home? I hope he has, for I sure do know what it is to be in France.
You told me to be good, well I am as good as I can be, for I have quit all my bad habits. I don’t swear play cards, nor drink. I’ll bet there not many of Uncle Sam’s boys that can say that much.
Well, love, my letter is growing long so I must close. I am longing to see my sweet wife and dear mother who are waiting to welcome their soldier home, so I will close hoping to be home soon.
Pvt. Wm. F. Lacy,
Sec. C. Evacuation camp No 1, A.P.O. 701.
NOTES: William Fred Lacy was born on January 24, 1896 in Attica, Arkansas and died on January 27, 1960. He is buried in the Lawrence Memorial Park in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Private serving in the US Army during World War I. He enlisted on may 25, 1918 and was discharged on July 7, 1919. He was writing to his wife Roxie Lorraine Lacy.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS