The following is modified slightly from "Story of Alexander and Nancy Barnes Burns and their Descendants by John Sylvester Burns and Ada Burns Baldwin:
Raymond Burns Donaldson, son of Lulu Lena Burns and Wm. P.Donaldson, was born Sept. 25, 1896, on the Donaldson Farm near Virsoix, PA, and died on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1961, in California where he and his family had been living for some years.
He was educated in Slippery Rock State College (now Slippery Rock State University) and Curry Business College of Pittsburgh. He taught school in Beaver County, PA, for one year.
Raymond enlisted May 2, 1917, in the Engineers Reserve Corps and was called to active service Oct. 5, 1917. After three months of training in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 4, 1918, he sailed from New York with the 4th Battalion, 20th Regiment, Forestry Engineers. After 11 days of storm and one encounter with a German submarine, they laded at Brest, France. From Brest, they traveled overland to Blois. At Blois, Raymond contracted scarlet fever, and for 28 days was nursed by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in a converted nunnery. He was not bathed during the entire illness.
His next assignment was to Company E, 10th Engineers, as a cook. In August 1918 they were commandeered on the "big drive" and raymond was sent to the front as a trick driver, where he drove loads of ammunition and consignments of rations.
At war's end, he was returned, sailing from Breast to the U.S. In March 1919, at Camp Meade, he was honorably discharged form the Army.
On Sept. 2, 1923, he married Myrtle Gertrude Akerson, born Aug. 15, 1900 in Sisterville, WV, daughter of Augusta Elizabeth (Withrow) and Philip Clymer Akerson.
Raymond Burns Donaldson, son of Lulu Lena Burns and Wm. P.Donaldson, was born Sept. 25, 1896, on the Donaldson Farm near Virsoix, PA, and died on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1961, in California where he and his family had been living for some years.
He was educated in Slippery Rock State College (now Slippery Rock State University) and Curry Business College of Pittsburgh. He taught school in Beaver County, PA, for one year.
Raymond enlisted May 2, 1917, in the Engineers Reserve Corps and was called to active service Oct. 5, 1917. After three months of training in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 4, 1918, he sailed from New York with the 4th Battalion, 20th Regiment, Forestry Engineers. After 11 days of storm and one encounter with a German submarine, they laded at Brest, France. From Brest, they traveled overland to Blois. At Blois, Raymond contracted scarlet fever, and for 28 days was nursed by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in a converted nunnery. He was not bathed during the entire illness.
His next assignment was to Company E, 10th Engineers, as a cook. In August 1918 they were commandeered on the "big drive" and raymond was sent to the front as a trick driver, where he drove loads of ammunition and consignments of rations.
At war's end, he was returned, sailing from Breast to the U.S. In March 1919, at Camp Meade, he was honorably discharged form the Army.
On Sept. 2, 1923, he married Myrtle Gertrude Akerson, born Aug. 15, 1900 in Sisterville, WV, daughter of Augusta Elizabeth (Withrow) and Philip Clymer Akerson.
The following is modified slightly from "Story of Alexander and Nancy Barnes Burns and their Descendants by John Sylvester Burns and Ada Burns Baldwin:
Raymond Burns Donaldson, son of Lulu Lena Burns and Wm. P.Donaldson, was born Sept. 25, 1896, on the Donaldson Farm near Virsoix, PA, and died on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1961, in California where he and his family had been living for some years.
He was educated in Slippery Rock State College (now Slippery Rock State University) and Curry Business College of Pittsburgh. He taught school in Beaver County, PA, for one year.
Raymond enlisted May 2, 1917, in the Engineers Reserve Corps and was called to active service Oct. 5, 1917. After three months of training in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 4, 1918, he sailed from New York with the 4th Battalion, 20th Regiment, Forestry Engineers. After 11 days of storm and one encounter with a German submarine, they laded at Brest, France. From Brest, they traveled overland to Blois. At Blois, Raymond contracted scarlet fever, and for 28 days was nursed by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in a converted nunnery. He was not bathed during the entire illness.
His next assignment was to Company E, 10th Engineers, as a cook. In August 1918 they were commandeered on the "big drive" and raymond was sent to the front as a trick driver, where he drove loads of ammunition and consignments of rations.
At war's end, he was returned, sailing from Breast to the U.S. In March 1919, at Camp Meade, he was honorably discharged form the Army.
On Sept. 2, 1923, he married Myrtle Gertrude Akerson, born Aug. 15, 1900 in Sisterville, WV, daughter of Augusta Elizabeth (Withrow) and Philip Clymer Akerson.
Raymond Burns Donaldson, son of Lulu Lena Burns and Wm. P.Donaldson, was born Sept. 25, 1896, on the Donaldson Farm near Virsoix, PA, and died on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1961, in California where he and his family had been living for some years.
He was educated in Slippery Rock State College (now Slippery Rock State University) and Curry Business College of Pittsburgh. He taught school in Beaver County, PA, for one year.
Raymond enlisted May 2, 1917, in the Engineers Reserve Corps and was called to active service Oct. 5, 1917. After three months of training in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 4, 1918, he sailed from New York with the 4th Battalion, 20th Regiment, Forestry Engineers. After 11 days of storm and one encounter with a German submarine, they laded at Brest, France. From Brest, they traveled overland to Blois. At Blois, Raymond contracted scarlet fever, and for 28 days was nursed by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in a converted nunnery. He was not bathed during the entire illness.
His next assignment was to Company E, 10th Engineers, as a cook. In August 1918 they were commandeered on the "big drive" and raymond was sent to the front as a trick driver, where he drove loads of ammunition and consignments of rations.
At war's end, he was returned, sailing from Breast to the U.S. In March 1919, at Camp Meade, he was honorably discharged form the Army.
On Sept. 2, 1923, he married Myrtle Gertrude Akerson, born Aug. 15, 1900 in Sisterville, WV, daughter of Augusta Elizabeth (Withrow) and Philip Clymer Akerson.
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