TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS SEPTEMBER 13, 1918 P. 3
Camp Merritt, N. J.
August 28, 1918.
Dear Folks at home:
I will write you a few lines this afternoon.
I made my trip all O.K. believe me I sure did have some ride. I was on the train from Friday noon until Monday evening, and I sure saw lots of the large towns, along at the last we travled along the Hudson river for about thirty miles, and sure did see some very large ships.
We traveled through Indiania and Illinois and Pennsylvania and Ohio, at Cleveland we got off and took baths, I didn’t get to take one for I was the cook most of the way here.
There were five hundred of us boys, we had some Pullmans, so you can see that we didn’t suffer for sleep.
Probably by the time you get this letter I will be sailing across.
Millard Farley is here with me, but in a different company from me.
We have gotten all of our oversea clothes.
This certainly is a fine camp here two soldiers here to every one at Camp Pike. It sure is nice and cool here. I gained five pounds on our trip. Don’t drill any since we came here, this is more of a resting camp than anything since we came here.
I guess Johnie Downum has gone across, for they don’t stay here over a week are so, and some times not that long.
Well I am raring to go over since I have gotten this far. Would like to have come home before I sail but guess I can’t.
Write soon for I don’t think I will be here long enough to get a letter from home.
As ever your loving son.
Will write as soon as I can so goo bye.
Ura
NOTES: Ura West was born on May 26, 1896 in Weddington, Arkansas and died on December 30, 1966 in Kansas City, Missouri. He is buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Camp Merritt, N. J.
August 28, 1918.
Dear Folks at home:
I will write you a few lines this afternoon.
I made my trip all O.K. believe me I sure did have some ride. I was on the train from Friday noon until Monday evening, and I sure saw lots of the large towns, along at the last we travled along the Hudson river for about thirty miles, and sure did see some very large ships.
We traveled through Indiania and Illinois and Pennsylvania and Ohio, at Cleveland we got off and took baths, I didn’t get to take one for I was the cook most of the way here.
There were five hundred of us boys, we had some Pullmans, so you can see that we didn’t suffer for sleep.
Probably by the time you get this letter I will be sailing across.
Millard Farley is here with me, but in a different company from me.
We have gotten all of our oversea clothes.
This certainly is a fine camp here two soldiers here to every one at Camp Pike. It sure is nice and cool here. I gained five pounds on our trip. Don’t drill any since we came here, this is more of a resting camp than anything since we came here.
I guess Johnie Downum has gone across, for they don’t stay here over a week are so, and some times not that long.
Well I am raring to go over since I have gotten this far. Would like to have come home before I sail but guess I can’t.
Write soon for I don’t think I will be here long enough to get a letter from home.
As ever your loving son.
Will write as soon as I can so goo bye.
Ura
NOTES: Ura West was born on May 26, 1896 in Weddington, Arkansas and died on December 30, 1966 in Kansas City, Missouri. He is buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS