Brinson, Terrell, Shumaker, and May families
HERE’S DAVID JESSE SHUMAKER’S WWI LETTER OF FEBRUARY 5, 1919, THAT DAVID JESSE SHUMAKER WROTE HOME TO HIS BROTHER LEE AND SISTER AZEL.
He congratulates Lee on the quality of his artistic ...
IN DAVID’S WWI LETTER OF FEBRUARY 3, 1919, HE TALKS ABOUT HOW MUCH HE WRITES TO THE FOLKS AT HOME COMPARED TO THE OTHERS IN HIS COMPANY. HE SAYS THAT HE ...
“ON THANKSGIVINGS DAY WE HIKED OVER FOURTY KILOMETERS. ALL THIS HIKING WE CARRIED FULL PACKS. BELIEVE ME WE SURE WERE GLAD WHEN WE LANDED IN SIXFONTAINES ...
“I DON’T KNOW WHETHER I WILL EVER BE AS HAPPY AS I WAS ANY MORE AS I WAS BEFORE I CAME TO FRANCE”, WRITES DAVID IN THIS WWI LETTER OF JANUARY 25, 1919.
In this letter David writes about ...
DAVID SAYS THAT HE FEELS FINE – BUT HE AND HIS WHOLE COMPANY CAUGHT LICE IN THE TRENCHES. READ HIS WWI LETTER OF JANUARY 19, 1919.
Lice and an assortment of other vermin were normal in the trench ...
“WELL, ‘SUNNY FRANCE’ IS JUST A FIB,” SAYS DAVID IN HIS WWI LETTER OF JANUARY 12, 1919. ” IT HAS BEEN SNOWING EVER SINCE YESTERDAY ...
DAVID JESSE SHUMAKER’S WWI LETTER OF JANUARY 4, 1919 IS SHORT AND THANKFUL. HIS MAIL HAS BEEN HELD UP AND HE FINALLY RECEIVED SOME LETTERS FROM HOME!
I don’t know how long his mail had been ...
THE DOUGHBOYS IN FRANCE COOKED A BIG DINNER FOR THEMSELVES! WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY MADE? READ DAVID JESSE SHUMAKER’S WWI LETTER OF DECEMBER 22, 1918 TO HIS FAMILY BACK HOME IN MISSISSIPPI.
These ...
RELAXING IN A FRENCH HOME ON A STORMY WINTER NIGHT, DAVID IS EATING MILK TOAST AND CHATTING WITH AN OLD MAN ABOUT WHAT HE’S READING IN THE NEWSPAPER, LE ...
AT THIS POINT, IN HIS WWI LETTER OF NOVEMBER 3, 1918, DAVID HAS WRITTEN ABOUT 100 LETTERS TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLE IN HIS LIFE, AND DESPERATELY WANTS TO RECEIVE A LETTER FROM HIS “HOME FOLK”.
I’m ...