TRANSCRIBED FROM THE WHITE RIVER JOURNAL APRIL 17, 1919 P. 1
3-7-1919
Mr. Isom Smith
Dear Father and Mother:
As I haven’t anything to do I will write you a few lines to let you know that I am still alive and doing fine, and hope that this will find you well and enjoying yourself. I sure would like very much to see all of you, and don’t think it will be long till I can come home, and I will be so glad I won’t know what to do. Dad, I am going on a furlough in a day or two, I think I will go Monday, and if I can I am going to visit Italy while I am gone. I think that I can go over in Italy a little ways and I will send you a letter while I am over there if I can, and I think that I can send letters from there. The name of the place where I am going is Neice. It is a large coast town; it is reserved for Americans on leave. I will get seven days from the time I get there till I leave and I think it takes seven days to go and come. They have to make the stay short so as to let all or as many of the Company go as possible. Dad I heard that we would sail sometime in April. I don’t know whether it is true not, but I sure hope it is, for I am tired of this place and want to get back home. Well dad I will make this letter short hoping to see you before long. I am as ever your son,
Corp’l Epps Smith,
Co. A. 114th Engineers A.E.F.
NOTES: Epps Brown Smith was born on August 6, 1892 in Des Arc, Arkansas and died on March 19, 1951. He departed Hoboken, NJ on August 22, 1918 onboard the Wilhelmina. He serving as a Pvt. in Co. A 114th Engineers.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
3-7-1919
Mr. Isom Smith
Dear Father and Mother:
As I haven’t anything to do I will write you a few lines to let you know that I am still alive and doing fine, and hope that this will find you well and enjoying yourself. I sure would like very much to see all of you, and don’t think it will be long till I can come home, and I will be so glad I won’t know what to do. Dad, I am going on a furlough in a day or two, I think I will go Monday, and if I can I am going to visit Italy while I am gone. I think that I can go over in Italy a little ways and I will send you a letter while I am over there if I can, and I think that I can send letters from there. The name of the place where I am going is Neice. It is a large coast town; it is reserved for Americans on leave. I will get seven days from the time I get there till I leave and I think it takes seven days to go and come. They have to make the stay short so as to let all or as many of the Company go as possible. Dad I heard that we would sail sometime in April. I don’t know whether it is true not, but I sure hope it is, for I am tired of this place and want to get back home. Well dad I will make this letter short hoping to see you before long. I am as ever your son,
Corp’l Epps Smith,
Co. A. 114th Engineers A.E.F.
NOTES: Epps Brown Smith was born on August 6, 1892 in Des Arc, Arkansas and died on March 19, 1951. He departed Hoboken, NJ on August 22, 1918 onboard the Wilhelmina. He serving as a Pvt. in Co. A 114th Engineers.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD