For Thursday Throwback, I am sharing a postcard found in an old trunk of my grandfather Woodrow McQueen. He inherited the trunk from his mother and my great-grandmother Anna Lee Whitehead McQueen.
This postcard is from her brother Urah Whitehead and is dated March 25, 1919. At the time, Urah was serving overseas in World War I. He was twenty-five years old at the time, having been born on 11 January 1894 in Caney Creek, Texas to Robert E. Lee Whitehead and Joanna Frances Martin (1).
The front of the postcard is a picture of Lamalou-les-Bains which is a town in the Occitanie region of southern France. There are hot and cold waters nearby that are said to cure cases of rheumatism, sciatica, locomotor ataxia, and nervous maladies.
The back of the card read thus:
dear Sister
I am here in Lamalou-Les-Bains on a 7 day furlough. There are some wonderful sights here this is in South _____ France. I am your brother - with love Urah Whitehead.
Urah made it home from the war. He died on 12 October 1979 in Livingston, Polk County, Texas (1).
It is pretty amazing this has survived now for 97 years. Kind of humbling to say the least.
SOURCES:
Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
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