Birth and death dates taken from Missouri death certificate
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From the Skidmore [Missouri] Standard, Friday, August 12, 1898, page 1:
"Camp Alger, VA - August 7, 1898
Editor Standard: - Camp life is a pleasant one, and a soldier's is a little tough at times, but it averages up pretty well.
Camp Alger is deserted. Out of all the regiments that were in camp here, the 4th Missouri is all that remains. The most of them have moved camp to Manassas Junction, and the 4th Missouri has received official orders to leave for Porto Rico, but I don't know when we will start. There is quite a lot of sickness in camp now. The main diseases are measles and typhoid fever, but since the camp has been thinned out it has ceased to rage so much. The 4th Missouri had a sham battle the other day. They divided up and made a find showing.
We have a fine cook in U.S. Totton and John Heglock. They get up a fine meal when they have anything to cook, but they have had to put the little pot in the big one and boil them for soup the last week or two. Pies are quite a delicacy here. They come high and are hard to get; we don't think anything of paying 25 cents for a little bit of a pie not much bigger than the ones we used to pay five cents for in Skidmore, and they are of a very poor quality to boot. When we get down to Porto Rico we can live on fruit as they grow there in abundance. Lemons, bananas and some kind of berries that are more delicious than either of the above mentioned.
Our water supply has about given out here but I don't think we will remain very much longer, at least I hope we will not.
We were to march to Washington the 13th and be reviewed by President McKinley and Secretary Russel A. Alger, but I don't think we will, although we may.
Some of us have fine houses to live in. They are A tents, six feet long, six feet wide and four feet high in the middle. I have built mine up on stilts and haven't room enough to turn around in. When I want to turn over in the night, I have to get up and go outside, turn around and crawl back in.
Taking everything into consideration, we are having a fine time.
Yours Respectfully,
Michael Freece"
See the Skidmore News, January 13, 1927, page 4 for an obituary. Michael Freeze was born November 3, 1875 in Center County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years old, his family moved to Nodaway County, near Burr Oak. He was a carpenter. He died January 9, 1927. He was survived by a brother, W. H. Freeze of Maryville, and three sisters, Mrs. W. T. Bohannen of St. Joseph, Mrs. George Bramble of Maryville, and Mrs. A. K. Hill of Denver, Colorado. The funeral was held on January 11.
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From the Skidmore [Missouri] Standard, Friday, August 12, 1898, page 1:
"Camp Alger, VA - August 7, 1898
Editor Standard: - Camp life is a pleasant one, and a soldier's is a little tough at times, but it averages up pretty well.
Camp Alger is deserted. Out of all the regiments that were in camp here, the 4th Missouri is all that remains. The most of them have moved camp to Manassas Junction, and the 4th Missouri has received official orders to leave for Porto Rico, but I don't know when we will start. There is quite a lot of sickness in camp now. The main diseases are measles and typhoid fever, but since the camp has been thinned out it has ceased to rage so much. The 4th Missouri had a sham battle the other day. They divided up and made a find showing.
We have a fine cook in U.S. Totton and John Heglock. They get up a fine meal when they have anything to cook, but they have had to put the little pot in the big one and boil them for soup the last week or two. Pies are quite a delicacy here. They come high and are hard to get; we don't think anything of paying 25 cents for a little bit of a pie not much bigger than the ones we used to pay five cents for in Skidmore, and they are of a very poor quality to boot. When we get down to Porto Rico we can live on fruit as they grow there in abundance. Lemons, bananas and some kind of berries that are more delicious than either of the above mentioned.
Our water supply has about given out here but I don't think we will remain very much longer, at least I hope we will not.
We were to march to Washington the 13th and be reviewed by President McKinley and Secretary Russel A. Alger, but I don't think we will, although we may.
Some of us have fine houses to live in. They are A tents, six feet long, six feet wide and four feet high in the middle. I have built mine up on stilts and haven't room enough to turn around in. When I want to turn over in the night, I have to get up and go outside, turn around and crawl back in.
Taking everything into consideration, we are having a fine time.
Yours Respectfully,
Michael Freece"
See the Skidmore News, January 13, 1927, page 4 for an obituary. Michael Freeze was born November 3, 1875 in Center County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years old, his family moved to Nodaway County, near Burr Oak. He was a carpenter. He died January 9, 1927. He was survived by a brother, W. H. Freeze of Maryville, and three sisters, Mrs. W. T. Bohannen of St. Joseph, Mrs. George Bramble of Maryville, and Mrs. A. K. Hill of Denver, Colorado. The funeral was held on January 11.
Birth and death dates taken from Missouri death certificate
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From the Skidmore [Missouri] Standard, Friday, August 12, 1898, page 1:
"Camp Alger, VA - August 7, 1898
Editor Standard: - Camp life is a pleasant one, and a soldier's is a little tough at times, but it averages up pretty well.
Camp Alger is deserted. Out of all the regiments that were in camp here, the 4th Missouri is all that remains. The most of them have moved camp to Manassas Junction, and the 4th Missouri has received official orders to leave for Porto Rico, but I don't know when we will start. There is quite a lot of sickness in camp now. The main diseases are measles and typhoid fever, but since the camp has been thinned out it has ceased to rage so much. The 4th Missouri had a sham battle the other day. They divided up and made a find showing.
We have a fine cook in U.S. Totton and John Heglock. They get up a fine meal when they have anything to cook, but they have had to put the little pot in the big one and boil them for soup the last week or two. Pies are quite a delicacy here. They come high and are hard to get; we don't think anything of paying 25 cents for a little bit of a pie not much bigger than the ones we used to pay five cents for in Skidmore, and they are of a very poor quality to boot. When we get down to Porto Rico we can live on fruit as they grow there in abundance. Lemons, bananas and some kind of berries that are more delicious than either of the above mentioned.
Our water supply has about given out here but I don't think we will remain very much longer, at least I hope we will not.
We were to march to Washington the 13th and be reviewed by President McKinley and Secretary Russel A. Alger, but I don't think we will, although we may.
Some of us have fine houses to live in. They are A tents, six feet long, six feet wide and four feet high in the middle. I have built mine up on stilts and haven't room enough to turn around in. When I want to turn over in the night, I have to get up and go outside, turn around and crawl back in.
Taking everything into consideration, we are having a fine time.
Yours Respectfully,
Michael Freece"
See the Skidmore News, January 13, 1927, page 4 for an obituary. Michael Freeze was born November 3, 1875 in Center County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years old, his family moved to Nodaway County, near Burr Oak. He was a carpenter. He died January 9, 1927. He was survived by a brother, W. H. Freeze of Maryville, and three sisters, Mrs. W. T. Bohannen of St. Joseph, Mrs. George Bramble of Maryville, and Mrs. A. K. Hill of Denver, Colorado. The funeral was held on January 11.
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From the Skidmore [Missouri] Standard, Friday, August 12, 1898, page 1:
"Camp Alger, VA - August 7, 1898
Editor Standard: - Camp life is a pleasant one, and a soldier's is a little tough at times, but it averages up pretty well.
Camp Alger is deserted. Out of all the regiments that were in camp here, the 4th Missouri is all that remains. The most of them have moved camp to Manassas Junction, and the 4th Missouri has received official orders to leave for Porto Rico, but I don't know when we will start. There is quite a lot of sickness in camp now. The main diseases are measles and typhoid fever, but since the camp has been thinned out it has ceased to rage so much. The 4th Missouri had a sham battle the other day. They divided up and made a find showing.
We have a fine cook in U.S. Totton and John Heglock. They get up a fine meal when they have anything to cook, but they have had to put the little pot in the big one and boil them for soup the last week or two. Pies are quite a delicacy here. They come high and are hard to get; we don't think anything of paying 25 cents for a little bit of a pie not much bigger than the ones we used to pay five cents for in Skidmore, and they are of a very poor quality to boot. When we get down to Porto Rico we can live on fruit as they grow there in abundance. Lemons, bananas and some kind of berries that are more delicious than either of the above mentioned.
Our water supply has about given out here but I don't think we will remain very much longer, at least I hope we will not.
We were to march to Washington the 13th and be reviewed by President McKinley and Secretary Russel A. Alger, but I don't think we will, although we may.
Some of us have fine houses to live in. They are A tents, six feet long, six feet wide and four feet high in the middle. I have built mine up on stilts and haven't room enough to turn around in. When I want to turn over in the night, I have to get up and go outside, turn around and crawl back in.
Taking everything into consideration, we are having a fine time.
Yours Respectfully,
Michael Freece"
See the Skidmore News, January 13, 1927, page 4 for an obituary. Michael Freeze was born November 3, 1875 in Center County, Pennsylvania. When he was three years old, his family moved to Nodaway County, near Burr Oak. He was a carpenter. He died January 9, 1927. He was survived by a brother, W. H. Freeze of Maryville, and three sisters, Mrs. W. T. Bohannen of St. Joseph, Mrs. George Bramble of Maryville, and Mrs. A. K. Hill of Denver, Colorado. The funeral was held on January 11.
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