TRANSCRIBED FROM THE FAYETTEVILLE DAILY DEMOCRAT SEPTEMBER 3, 1918 P. 4
If it wouldn’t be for how I miss you, and the little lonely feeling I have when I realize how far away from you I am, there wouldn’t be any other place for me.
These people certainly do think lots of us boys, and I wish I knew French. The fellow who knows how to talk French here can have a better time than anyone else, and he had better learn it there for he won’t have time over here. Believe me I believe the Kaiser’s bunch won’t last much longer.
I am well and everything is O.K. but I haven’t heard from you since I left Beauregard. A letter would look good to me.
NOTES: John Floyd Toney was writing to his mother. He was serving in Battery E., 320 Field Artillery, A.E.F., France. He was born on August 17, 1893 in Wesley, Arkansas and died on April 14, 1973 in Greenland, Arkansas. He was described as being of medium height and weight with brown eyes and hair. He is buried in the Baptist Ford Cemetery in Greenland.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
If it wouldn’t be for how I miss you, and the little lonely feeling I have when I realize how far away from you I am, there wouldn’t be any other place for me.
These people certainly do think lots of us boys, and I wish I knew French. The fellow who knows how to talk French here can have a better time than anyone else, and he had better learn it there for he won’t have time over here. Believe me I believe the Kaiser’s bunch won’t last much longer.
I am well and everything is O.K. but I haven’t heard from you since I left Beauregard. A letter would look good to me.
NOTES: John Floyd Toney was writing to his mother. He was serving in Battery E., 320 Field Artillery, A.E.F., France. He was born on August 17, 1893 in Wesley, Arkansas and died on April 14, 1973 in Greenland, Arkansas. He was described as being of medium height and weight with brown eyes and hair. He is buried in the Baptist Ford Cemetery in Greenland.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT