Showing posts with label Postcard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Postcard. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Postcard - Jun 10, 1918


Post Card to Mrs. J. J. Thompson
Sedona, Ariz
Postmarked June 10, 1918


Pri James A. Thompson
2nd Training company
Camp Cody, New Mex
Casual camp

Dear mother I got the letter that you wrote with Charley’s letter.  I have wrote 2 letters since
I have been here and haven’t got any answers yet.  I sent you a picture.  Did you get it?


Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Postcards from the road - Aug 27 & 28, 1918


St. Louis, MO  Aug 27, 1918

We stopped here about two hours today.  Stopped in Kansas City yesterday.  Am getting awful tired riding on the train but guess won't stop for a few days yet.    C.S.T.



Aug 28, 1918

Still on my way.  Will get there tomorrow I think.  Have seen all kinds of country today.  We are stopped here in Pittsburgh today for about an hour.  C.S.T.






Thursday, October 12, 2017

Postcard - October 12 1918


Camp Dix, NJ Oct 12

Dear Mother we will leave here sometime tonight or tomorrow.  Jimmie left yesterday.  Am well and feeling fine.  CST.






Who Were Charles and James Thompson??

The Thompson family were early pioneers in Arizona.  The father and patriarch, Irish immigrant John James Thompson (born 1841), was the firs...