TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS NOVEMBER 1, 1918 P. 3
Camp Merritt, N. J.
Oct. 19, 1918.
Dear Mother and Father:
Will drop you a few lines, have not heard from you in some time, but I have been on the move so I guess my mail is lost. Well mother I am going over there to do my little bit. I would love to see you before I go but I can’t so I will come home as soon as the war is over. I am a sergeant now and that is a little better I am doing fine and having a good time and will have lots to tell you when I see you. How are you all getting along? I hope you are well and doing well.
Have you heard from Grace lately or does she write to you often?
We are leaving here tonight and I don’t know where we are going, somewhere in France, I suppose. It will be a nice trip for me and I really want to go for I will see lots of the world before I come back and will be some help for me.
Don’t you worry about me for I am all right and will see you later and will have a lot to tell you, so by by.
As ever, your soldier boy.
Sargeant W. H. Main
To Father. Well father I will write and tell you all about my new job as sargeant, it is some job, believe me, the best thing about it is my new six shooter; I am proud of it, they tell me it will be my best friend over there. I take good care of it, it is a 45 and a fine one. All I have to do is get up of a morning and then wake every body else up and then call the roll and then eat my breakfast and make out my report for the day and answer about 5000 questions and call the roll again at 6 o’clock, eat my supper and work on the company papers till 10 o’clock and go to bed and sleep cold all night so you see that is a good job.
Now I am going to close and eat my supper and leave here tonight for somewhere. So goodbye for now.
Sargeant Main.
NOTES: William Harvey Main was born in Terre Haute on August 30, 1892 and died on February 26, 1934. He is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore, Ok. His military headstone identifies him as an Oklahoma private serving in 126 Co., Transportation Corps.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Camp Merritt, N. J.
Oct. 19, 1918.
Dear Mother and Father:
Will drop you a few lines, have not heard from you in some time, but I have been on the move so I guess my mail is lost. Well mother I am going over there to do my little bit. I would love to see you before I go but I can’t so I will come home as soon as the war is over. I am a sergeant now and that is a little better I am doing fine and having a good time and will have lots to tell you when I see you. How are you all getting along? I hope you are well and doing well.
Have you heard from Grace lately or does she write to you often?
We are leaving here tonight and I don’t know where we are going, somewhere in France, I suppose. It will be a nice trip for me and I really want to go for I will see lots of the world before I come back and will be some help for me.
Don’t you worry about me for I am all right and will see you later and will have a lot to tell you, so by by.
As ever, your soldier boy.
Sargeant W. H. Main
To Father. Well father I will write and tell you all about my new job as sargeant, it is some job, believe me, the best thing about it is my new six shooter; I am proud of it, they tell me it will be my best friend over there. I take good care of it, it is a 45 and a fine one. All I have to do is get up of a morning and then wake every body else up and then call the roll and then eat my breakfast and make out my report for the day and answer about 5000 questions and call the roll again at 6 o’clock, eat my supper and work on the company papers till 10 o’clock and go to bed and sleep cold all night so you see that is a good job.
Now I am going to close and eat my supper and leave here tonight for somewhere. So goodbye for now.
Sargeant Main.
NOTES: William Harvey Main was born in Terre Haute on August 30, 1892 and died on February 26, 1934. He is buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Claremore, Ok. His military headstone identifies him as an Oklahoma private serving in 126 Co., Transportation Corps.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS