TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DEQUEEN BEE JANUARY 10, 1919 P. 2
Noyon, France, Dec. 12, 1928.
My Dear Mother:
How are you? I am well now and feeling fine. Hope you are the same. I haven’t heard from you in about three months. Sure would like to hear from you. I guess I will leave France about Christmas for old U.S.A. That will be a Christmas present for me and you, too. I expect to be home in about three or four months. I like France pretty well, but like the U.S. the best. Tell Ola Mae that I will be back pretty soon. I am now in the 18th Co., Overseas Casuals. I feel that I am lucky getting in this company. I know you will. I guess I will beat this letter home. The houses are so funny in France and England. It took us so long to get used to them. They are made of stones and lime rocks. Some of them are covered with straw, and the people wear wooden shoes. Well, mother, I hope you have got your money from Uncle Sam. I think I will get paid tomorrow. I don’t think it will be any use for you to write any more till you hear from me. I have been going farther from home, but now I have started the other way, and the next two months will bring me home or near. Well, I guess I had better close. Hoping you have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Tell Put to tell Jimmy I will be there with him pretty soon. I will close with love to all.
Your devoted son,
Joe Reese.
NOTES: This letter was written by Joe Thomas Reese. He was born in Center Pont, Arkansas on January 19, 1900 and died on December 22, 1975. He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Byers, Texas.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Noyon, France, Dec. 12, 1928.
My Dear Mother:
How are you? I am well now and feeling fine. Hope you are the same. I haven’t heard from you in about three months. Sure would like to hear from you. I guess I will leave France about Christmas for old U.S.A. That will be a Christmas present for me and you, too. I expect to be home in about three or four months. I like France pretty well, but like the U.S. the best. Tell Ola Mae that I will be back pretty soon. I am now in the 18th Co., Overseas Casuals. I feel that I am lucky getting in this company. I know you will. I guess I will beat this letter home. The houses are so funny in France and England. It took us so long to get used to them. They are made of stones and lime rocks. Some of them are covered with straw, and the people wear wooden shoes. Well, mother, I hope you have got your money from Uncle Sam. I think I will get paid tomorrow. I don’t think it will be any use for you to write any more till you hear from me. I have been going farther from home, but now I have started the other way, and the next two months will bring me home or near. Well, I guess I had better close. Hoping you have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Tell Put to tell Jimmy I will be there with him pretty soon. I will close with love to all.
Your devoted son,
Joe Reese.
NOTES: This letter was written by Joe Thomas Reese. He was born in Center Pont, Arkansas on January 19, 1900 and died on December 22, 1975. He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Byers, Texas.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD