TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - MILITARY WWI Scrimshire, Robert ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles Historycam@wmconnect.com The Butler Herald Thursday, September 5, 1918 Page Seven Letter From France Periguenx, France August 3, 1918 My dear Sister: I received your letter today, and will answer tonight. I received nine letters this morning, five of them from my fiancée, well I am mighty proud I have a girl there in the states that thinks something of me. I was sorry to know that your babies had been sick. I am in fine health, and faring fine. It is a beautiful place here, a nice town with goodshows, nice parks a nice river, and many fine old castles that were built hundreds of years ago. I am going to bake again Monday. I like baking much better. As soon as I have time I will write you out some recipes and send them to you, of course, I have been always cooking in large quantities for when I make a cake I mix it in a tub. We sometimes make biscuits, and when we do it takes 600, for we use more bread than anything else. I have just been reading a San Francisco paper, and their camp cooks are getting $150.0 a month, but I guess I am as well off in the army for I have never saved anything. We have had some bad times over here, but we have had good ones too. I could never have a better time than I am having now I work only half of my time, so when I am off a lady friend and I go swimming or boat riding, then in the evening I go to her home and she teaches me French. She is a graduate of one of the best colleges in France. She speaks English, French and German, and, of course she smokes cigarettes and drinks wine, but that is the custom in France. Most of all the people here are Catholics, but this friend is a protestant, and on Sunday we go to church, it is really the only time I have been to church since leaving home, everything is in French, but we understand very well now. I must close for this time as we are having pay-day. With love to all, Your brother, Robert Scrimshire (Note: Robert was a son of Robert Wilson Schrimshire. He was a cook with the Co. C 18th Engineers, R.Y., American E.F., France. I don't know what became of him at this point.He was a younger brother of my great-grandmother Gussie Scrimshire Adams) NOTE: 1900 Census was 16 years old