TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GREEN FOREST TRIBUNE OCTOBER 19, 1917 P. 2
September 23
Dear Brother:
I will write you a few lines today as it is Sunday and I have nothing else to do. Can’t even go to see Mollie.
How are you and yours? Does little Eugene still grow, and is the as sweet as ever? Gee! I would be delighted to see him. I guess he is old enough to play around now.
Well, Homer, I am well and happy and feeling fine.
I was pleased to hear you had received your commission, for, of course, I know you want to do your bit, and I don’t want you ever to regret it, for it is a just cause and ‘How can a man die better than fighting against great odds for the ashes of his fathers and temples of his gods?’
Well, I suppose I had as well close for this time. Tell Lockie and Little Eugene I would like to see them.
Write me a long letter as soon as you can.
Your Brother,
Private H. G. Leathers.
NOTES: Hosea Gradon Leathers was born on December 22, 1893 or 94 and died on August 15, 1967. He is buried in the Glenwood Cemetery in Green Forest. He departed for France from New York as a Private on August 14, 1917 onboard the Andania. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas soldier serving in SFC Tank Corps in WWI. He was writing to his brother Lieutenant Homer L. Leathers.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
September 23
Dear Brother:
I will write you a few lines today as it is Sunday and I have nothing else to do. Can’t even go to see Mollie.
How are you and yours? Does little Eugene still grow, and is the as sweet as ever? Gee! I would be delighted to see him. I guess he is old enough to play around now.
Well, Homer, I am well and happy and feeling fine.
I was pleased to hear you had received your commission, for, of course, I know you want to do your bit, and I don’t want you ever to regret it, for it is a just cause and ‘How can a man die better than fighting against great odds for the ashes of his fathers and temples of his gods?’
Well, I suppose I had as well close for this time. Tell Lockie and Little Eugene I would like to see them.
Write me a long letter as soon as you can.
Your Brother,
Private H. G. Leathers.
NOTES: Hosea Gradon Leathers was born on December 22, 1893 or 94 and died on August 15, 1967. He is buried in the Glenwood Cemetery in Green Forest. He departed for France from New York as a Private on August 14, 1917 onboard the Andania. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas soldier serving in SFC Tank Corps in WWI. He was writing to his brother Lieutenant Homer L. Leathers.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY