TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MONTICELLONIAN OCTOBER 4, 1918 P. 4
Sept. 22, 1918.
Dear mother:
I received your letter to day and sure was glad to hear from you. I just wrote you yesterday and don’t know much to write. I am at a Baptist Church, to-night, at a social. There are lots of girls here. You ask me if the Y.M.C.A. people are Catholic. No; they are not. Most of them are Baptists—some Methodists and other denominations. The R.C. Knights of Columbus is Catholic, but I have only been to one meeting and it was at Jefferson Barracks. I don’t care anything about visiting such churches. I saw the Priest trying to get the boys to come to confession, but I thought I had rather make confession to the Lord, instead of a man. XXX
Your loving son,
H.L. Myers,
Co. I, 50th Inf., Camp Sevier, S.C.
NOTES: This letter is written by Homer Lee Myers to his mother, Laura Myers. She describes him as a whole-soul Baptist and a worker for religion. He was born on December 20, 1893 and died on March 6, 1960. He is buried in the Ebenezer Cemetery at Warren, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in Co I of the 50th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY JEFF PATRICK
Sept. 22, 1918.
Dear mother:
I received your letter to day and sure was glad to hear from you. I just wrote you yesterday and don’t know much to write. I am at a Baptist Church, to-night, at a social. There are lots of girls here. You ask me if the Y.M.C.A. people are Catholic. No; they are not. Most of them are Baptists—some Methodists and other denominations. The R.C. Knights of Columbus is Catholic, but I have only been to one meeting and it was at Jefferson Barracks. I don’t care anything about visiting such churches. I saw the Priest trying to get the boys to come to confession, but I thought I had rather make confession to the Lord, instead of a man. XXX
Your loving son,
H.L. Myers,
Co. I, 50th Inf., Camp Sevier, S.C.
NOTES: This letter is written by Homer Lee Myers to his mother, Laura Myers. She describes him as a whole-soul Baptist and a worker for religion. He was born on December 20, 1893 and died on March 6, 1960. He is buried in the Ebenezer Cemetery at Warren, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in Co I of the 50th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY JEFF PATRICK