TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT JUNE 26, 1919 P. 1
May 26, 1919
U S.S. Chicago, Boston Mass
Miss Mable Hayes:
Dear Friend:
It is with a sad and heavy heart that I try to express my feeling this morning for Mother has just wrote me that your father was dead. I am grieved and heartsore for I know that one of my best and true friends has passed away. But I know that he was ready and not afraid to go, like all good and God-living men are. And we all have a time to go and when it comes our time to go there is nothing that can hold us back after our destiny is fulfilled, and there is only one thing for us to do and that is–be ready. I sure would like to have had one more good talk with Mr. Hayes before he passed away for after one had had a good talk with him one would feel like an altogether different person and would have a different view of life.
Give my regards to the rest of the folks and tell them that I sympathize.
Ever your friend,
Olas H. Tripp.
NOTES: This letter was written by Oles (NEWSPAPER MISSPELLED HIS NAME) Harry Tripp. He was born September 6, 1897 in Savannah, Tennessee and died on November 22, 1946 in Kern County, California. He is buried in the Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, Calif. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Cpl. USMC serving in World War I. He also served on the USS Pittsburg.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
May 26, 1919
U S.S. Chicago, Boston Mass
Miss Mable Hayes:
Dear Friend:
It is with a sad and heavy heart that I try to express my feeling this morning for Mother has just wrote me that your father was dead. I am grieved and heartsore for I know that one of my best and true friends has passed away. But I know that he was ready and not afraid to go, like all good and God-living men are. And we all have a time to go and when it comes our time to go there is nothing that can hold us back after our destiny is fulfilled, and there is only one thing for us to do and that is–be ready. I sure would like to have had one more good talk with Mr. Hayes before he passed away for after one had had a good talk with him one would feel like an altogether different person and would have a different view of life.
Give my regards to the rest of the folks and tell them that I sympathize.
Ever your friend,
Olas H. Tripp.
NOTES: This letter was written by Oles (NEWSPAPER MISSPELLED HIS NAME) Harry Tripp. He was born September 6, 1897 in Savannah, Tennessee and died on November 22, 1946 in Kern County, California. He is buried in the Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, Calif. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Cpl. USMC serving in World War I. He also served on the USS Pittsburg.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD