YOU’VE SEEN THE FIRST VOLUME OF CATHERINE’S ORIGINAL WRITINGS, A BOOK OF POEMS PUT TOGETHER AND TITLED BY CATHERINE. NOW WE GET TO START THE SECOND ...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Original Writings by Catherine Shumaker Brinson vol. 2
WWI Letter February 3, 1919 | LETTERS FROM A DOUGHBOY, David Jesse Shumaker
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 ...
WWI Letter January 27, 1919 | LETTERS FROM A DOUGHBOY, David Jesse Shumaker
“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 ...
Catherine May Shumaker’s Baby Book
IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN I FOUND CATHERINE MAY SHUMAKER’S BABY BOOK – WITH MY MOTHER’S BABY DATES ENTERED IN MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDWRITING!
The little book, which measures 4-1/2 ...
WWI Letter January 25, 1919 | LETTERS FROM A DOUGHBOY, David Jesse Shumaker
“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 ...
WWI Letter January 19, 1919 | LETTERS FROM A DOUGHBOY, David Jesse Shumaker
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 ...
WWI Letter January 12, 1919 | LETTERS FROM A DOUGHBOY, David Jesse Shumaker
“WELL, ‘SUNNY FRANCE’ IS JUST A FIB,” SAYS DAVID IN HIS WWI LETTER OF JANUARY 12, 1919. ” IT HAS BEEN SNOWING EVER SINCE YESTERDAY ...
Direct Line Ancestors – Shumaker
SOME OF YOU HAVE ASKED ME RECENTLY WHO OUR DIRECT LINE ANCESTORS – SHUMAKER – ARE. AND THAT’S SOMETHING THAT I CAN DO WITHOUT GOING THROUGH TOO ...
The First Christmas I Remember | Original Writings by Catherine Shumaker Brinson vol. 2
THIS CHARMING STORY, “THE FIRST CHRISTMAS I REMEMBER”, WILL CERTAINLY BE ONE OF THE PIECES TO BE INCLUDED IN VOLUME 2 OF “ORIGINAL WRITINGS BY CATHERINE SHUMAKER BRINSON”.
Catherine ...
WWI Letter January 4, 1919 | LETTERS FROM A DOUGHBOY, David Jesse Shumaker
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 ...