TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SOLIPHONE AUGUST 8, 1918 P. 8
Please change my paper from Walcott, Ark., to this place, Camp Thompson. Frazier Hammond and James Taylor are here and a copy of The Press would look like along lost friend to us.
Hammond and Taylor are in the motor truck division and are doing fine. Thompson and myself are in radio, and doing very well.
We certainly are well cared for. Plenty good food, good beds, water, etc., and the finest of officers and splendid instructors. Also we are exceptionally well treated by the people who live here. They always have something doing for Uncle Sam’s boys.
NOTES: This letter was written by Reuben Edgar Seay of Walcott, Arkansas to the editor of the Paragould Daily Press. He was born on June 21, 1889 at Walcott and died on July 4, 1955. He is buried in the Linwood Cemetery in Paragould, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Private in the Student Army Training Corps in WWI. He was stationed at the Agricultural College in Mississippi. He had been there about two weeks. He enlisted on July 13, 1918 and was discharged on December 19, 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Please change my paper from Walcott, Ark., to this place, Camp Thompson. Frazier Hammond and James Taylor are here and a copy of The Press would look like along lost friend to us.
Hammond and Taylor are in the motor truck division and are doing fine. Thompson and myself are in radio, and doing very well.
We certainly are well cared for. Plenty good food, good beds, water, etc., and the finest of officers and splendid instructors. Also we are exceptionally well treated by the people who live here. They always have something doing for Uncle Sam’s boys.
NOTES: This letter was written by Reuben Edgar Seay of Walcott, Arkansas to the editor of the Paragould Daily Press. He was born on June 21, 1889 at Walcott and died on July 4, 1955. He is buried in the Linwood Cemetery in Paragould, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Private in the Student Army Training Corps in WWI. He was stationed at the Agricultural College in Mississippi. He had been there about two weeks. He enlisted on July 13, 1918 and was discharged on December 19, 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS