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From: "Roland Elliott" <>
Subject: Re: [KS-CEMETERIES] Information on Lacey W. Sawyer WW1 Soldier
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:08:58 -0700
References: <1177443190.372437@rootsweb.com>
That Dobbins mom was not a Elliott was she
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Subject: Re: [KS-CEMETERIES] Information on Lacey W. Sawyer WW1 Soldier
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Author: Orlena39
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Message Board Post:
"Delta Elise Dobbins Null
I have several WW1 letters written to my grandmother from a soldier named
Lacy W. Sawyer. She was very young and they must have been pen pals during
the war. The letters describe so many things and then how he has finally
come home to the states and he wishes to meet her, but then I was going
through a newspaper article from 1919 that lists some casualties and his
name is on there having died from injuries from the war it says. It was a
very sad ending for what was building up in my mind to be a WW1 soldier
coming home to meet his little pen pal friend, only to die after he gets
home. All of these letters and psot cards and pictures are still in the old
metal candy box she stored them in. How does one go about putting things
like this up for auction or how does one sell these items to interested
parties ?"
http://christmasspirit.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/chris-de-burgh-buys-rare-christmas-ww1-letter/
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Personally, I would be considering my grandmother kept the letters while
they were writing each other. She kept them all her life, they obviously
meant something to her. They are around 88 years old and now a family
heirloom.
I'd be trying to find out more about the young man and my grandmother at
that period in their lives. I'd try finding a photograph of him. I'd be
searching for the best way to care for and preserve the letters for future
generations. I wouldn't break them up, as a collection they have more value
to family or collectors.
If I decided there was not anyone who would appreciate them in my family,
I'd consider finding them a secure place to be kept. I'd probably contact a
museum, possibly National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial Curator and
see if they would accept them on LOAN. That way I or my descendants would
still own them.
http://www.libertymemorialmuseum.org/
"Donating World War One objects and documents
The Museum actively collects objects and documents from all the belligerent
countries in World War I. If you have a potential donation or questions,
please contact the museum curator, (816-784-1930) or the
museum archivist, (816-784-1932)."
If you really want to sell them, this might still be an option. If they
aren't interested, they might give you leads to someplace else that would
be.
If he died in Kansas, there should be a death certificate.
The problem may be getting it. Kansas has closed their records to
genealogist.
I see you also posted this in Cape Girardeau, why?
http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.capegirardeau/1402/mb.ashx
Lacey W. Sawyer WW1 Soldier
deltanull (View posts) Posted: 14 Jan 2007 6:24PM GMT
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Sawyer
I have some old letters written to my grandmother when she was a young
school girl from a WW1 soldier named Lacey W. Sawyer. They must have been
penpals much as school children are today with soldiers. They spoke of
meeting after the war during one of the many parades he spoke of attending
but sadly, I saw that he passed away in 1917 from experiences of the war
after he got home. They never got to meet. Is anyoen related to this man? I
am so curious if anyone has a picture of him.
Delta Null
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WHEN did he die???? Now I'm wondering why the KS Cemeteries?
Maybe Found Family Heirlooms
http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.heirlooms/mb.ashx
would be a better option?
You might also try
Message Boards > Topics > Military > World War I > General
http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.Military.wwi.general/mb.ashx
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