TRANSCRIBED FROM THE HELENA WORLD NOVEMBER 16, 1917 P. 5
Camp Beauregard, La.,
Nov. 9, 1917.
Mrs. C. E. Merrell,
Helena, Arkansas
My dear Mother:
Your dear letter received this a.m. Was, as usual, glad to hear from you. We have moved to Camp Beauregard and it is certainly a fine camp. We are in tents and all of them floored and built up on the sides. They are built 30 in a line for 250 rows for the company. We have not yet gotten our full number of men, but think we will have them soon.
I have told all the boys about what the ladies of Helena are doing for us, and they are all pleased to know it.
As for the helmet you said you would send me, I would rather you would send it to some one else that has to stand guard. I don’t go on guard, so you see I don’t need it. But I would like to have the sweater. I suspect we will have a pretty hard time this winter, but suppose we can stand it all right.
I went to town the first night I was here to see Aunt Lily and Ruth and her baby. I had a fine time. They want me to come down to dinner every Sunday, and I don’t think there will be much danger of me not going, for I haven’t put my feet under a table since I left home.
The Division is organizing a signal corps, and a bunch of us are going over. I think J. W. Blaine, Roy Hale and myself, and possibly some others, will be glad if we can make it.
Well, I don’t know any more to write about just now. Be good and write soon.
Lovingly,
CLEBURNE
NOTES: This letter was written by Cleburne Higgins Merrell to his mother Mrs. C. E. Merrell. Merrell was born in Helena, Arkansas on June 4, 1896 and died on February 29, 1960. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home in Beaumont, Texas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas MEC USNR serving in World War I and II. He enlisted on April 5, 1917 and was discharged on January 13, 1919. He was serving as a Mech. In Co. C, 141st Machine Gun Bn, 39th Division.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Camp Beauregard, La.,
Nov. 9, 1917.
Mrs. C. E. Merrell,
Helena, Arkansas
My dear Mother:
Your dear letter received this a.m. Was, as usual, glad to hear from you. We have moved to Camp Beauregard and it is certainly a fine camp. We are in tents and all of them floored and built up on the sides. They are built 30 in a line for 250 rows for the company. We have not yet gotten our full number of men, but think we will have them soon.
I have told all the boys about what the ladies of Helena are doing for us, and they are all pleased to know it.
As for the helmet you said you would send me, I would rather you would send it to some one else that has to stand guard. I don’t go on guard, so you see I don’t need it. But I would like to have the sweater. I suspect we will have a pretty hard time this winter, but suppose we can stand it all right.
I went to town the first night I was here to see Aunt Lily and Ruth and her baby. I had a fine time. They want me to come down to dinner every Sunday, and I don’t think there will be much danger of me not going, for I haven’t put my feet under a table since I left home.
The Division is organizing a signal corps, and a bunch of us are going over. I think J. W. Blaine, Roy Hale and myself, and possibly some others, will be glad if we can make it.
Well, I don’t know any more to write about just now. Be good and write soon.
Lovingly,
CLEBURNE
NOTES: This letter was written by Cleburne Higgins Merrell to his mother Mrs. C. E. Merrell. Merrell was born in Helena, Arkansas on June 4, 1896 and died on February 29, 1960. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home in Beaumont, Texas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas MEC USNR serving in World War I and II. He enlisted on April 5, 1917 and was discharged on January 13, 1919. He was serving as a Mech. In Co. C, 141st Machine Gun Bn, 39th Division.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD