TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COURIER-DEMOCRAT NOVEMBER 7, 1918 P. 5
Dear Friends and Associates:
I have started on my way across. I don’t know where or when I will land. As we are still on the ship and I am writing to father and mother, I thought of all my friends and associates that I have back at the little brown church in the dale, and felt that it would cheer me up to write a few words to my church and friends, for I think of you so often, and especially on Sunday.
Therefore, on each Sabbath morning promptly at 9:45 I get my Bible and read a chapter for my Sunday School lesson, and at 6:30 I read another chapter for my C. E. lesson, for I know that at those hours you are engaged in Sunday School and C. E. and perhaps thinking and talking of us boys who have gone and are still sweeping across from our dear little church and Sunday School.
I would be glad to have a letter, if only a few lines, from any of my friends back at home and especially from those of my Sunday School class and teacher. And especially do I want to ask you all to pray for me that I may live right and be spared to meet you again some beautiful Sabbath day in our “Little Brown Church in the Dale.” When this war is over and we have won victory and lasting peace for our dear America.
From your frieds,
Corp. Wood W. Williamson.
Battery C., 142nd F. A.
American Expd. Forces.
NOTES: Wood Barry Williamson (THE NEWSPAPER INCORRECTLY SHOWS HIS MIDDLE INITIAL AS W) was born on March 31, 1898 and died on January 15, 1954. He is buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Russellville, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Corp. serving in Battery C, 142nd FA in WWI. This was part of the 39th Division. He enlisted on June 13, 1917 and was discharged on June 26, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATHEWS
Dear Friends and Associates:
I have started on my way across. I don’t know where or when I will land. As we are still on the ship and I am writing to father and mother, I thought of all my friends and associates that I have back at the little brown church in the dale, and felt that it would cheer me up to write a few words to my church and friends, for I think of you so often, and especially on Sunday.
Therefore, on each Sabbath morning promptly at 9:45 I get my Bible and read a chapter for my Sunday School lesson, and at 6:30 I read another chapter for my C. E. lesson, for I know that at those hours you are engaged in Sunday School and C. E. and perhaps thinking and talking of us boys who have gone and are still sweeping across from our dear little church and Sunday School.
I would be glad to have a letter, if only a few lines, from any of my friends back at home and especially from those of my Sunday School class and teacher. And especially do I want to ask you all to pray for me that I may live right and be spared to meet you again some beautiful Sabbath day in our “Little Brown Church in the Dale.” When this war is over and we have won victory and lasting peace for our dear America.
From your frieds,
Corp. Wood W. Williamson.
Battery C., 142nd F. A.
American Expd. Forces.
NOTES: Wood Barry Williamson (THE NEWSPAPER INCORRECTLY SHOWS HIS MIDDLE INITIAL AS W) was born on March 31, 1898 and died on January 15, 1954. He is buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Russellville, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Corp. serving in Battery C, 142nd FA in WWI. This was part of the 39th Division. He enlisted on June 13, 1917 and was discharged on June 26, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATHEWS