TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC AUGUST 14, 1918 P. 4
I have been through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey and have been in the Dominion of Canada. I visited Niagara Falls. It has the prettiest park I ever saw and I have seen many in the large cities. From Detroit, the town with so many automobile factories, they put us on boats and hurried us across into Canada. I have seen some fine harvest fields, mines and mountains chains.
In most of the manufacturing cities they would blow the whistle and wave at us. We stopped several times on our trip of 82 hours and the Red Cross ladies always served us good things to eat. We came 900 miles out of the way on account of a wreck that had been on the route we should have traveled.
NOTES: This partial letter was written to Mrs. J. W. Gray (Bertha) of Pine Bluff, Arkansas by her brother Henry C. Merrill. At the time Henry was serving with the 17th Company, A. R. C., Camp Merritt, NJ. Henry was born in Kingsland, Arkansas on December 7, 1894 and died in Shreveport, Louisiana on June 23, 1969. He is buried in the Centuries Memorial Park in Shreveport. His military headstone identifies him as a Louisiana soldier serving as a Pvt. in Co. E, 148th Infantry. At the time of his registration for the draft he was listed as a lumber grader for a Louisiana company.
TRANSCRIBED BY CHLOE SMITH
I have been through Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey and have been in the Dominion of Canada. I visited Niagara Falls. It has the prettiest park I ever saw and I have seen many in the large cities. From Detroit, the town with so many automobile factories, they put us on boats and hurried us across into Canada. I have seen some fine harvest fields, mines and mountains chains.
In most of the manufacturing cities they would blow the whistle and wave at us. We stopped several times on our trip of 82 hours and the Red Cross ladies always served us good things to eat. We came 900 miles out of the way on account of a wreck that had been on the route we should have traveled.
NOTES: This partial letter was written to Mrs. J. W. Gray (Bertha) of Pine Bluff, Arkansas by her brother Henry C. Merrill. At the time Henry was serving with the 17th Company, A. R. C., Camp Merritt, NJ. Henry was born in Kingsland, Arkansas on December 7, 1894 and died in Shreveport, Louisiana on June 23, 1969. He is buried in the Centuries Memorial Park in Shreveport. His military headstone identifies him as a Louisiana soldier serving as a Pvt. in Co. E, 148th Infantry. At the time of his registration for the draft he was listed as a lumber grader for a Louisiana company.
TRANSCRIBED BY CHLOE SMITH