The Stone family is my maternal grandmother’s side of the family. I’ve traced it back to the early 1800s in the Indiana/Ohio Region.
Chester “Chet” Stone
Granduncle
1931 – ???
In going through some of the papers from my grandmother & mother, I found a number of letters written back home from Chet to his sister Betty and her husband Chauncey (Jr.), around the time my mother (Wendy) was born. The letters cover a span roughly between September 1948 and December 1953, and correspond to his time stateside with the Army, deployment to Korea, and return to the States.
As I’ve been unable to determine if Chet is still alive, or if he has any surviving family members, I’ll be transcribing those letters here occasionally, in “Chet Letters” posts.
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Chet Letters – May 5, 1952
San Francisco, California Betty & June & Winkey: Long time since I’ve written? Well I am getting a new address in a few days so I thought I would pass it on…
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Chet Letters – April 4, 1952
Fort Ord, California Hi kids: I’ll tell you now not to write until you get a new address from me or somebody else. I am shipping out tomorrow morning with a short…
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Chet Letters – March 21, 1952
Fort Ord, California Hi Betty, Jr. & Wendy, Long time since I wrote but I am getting lazy just sitting around here waiting for orders. But today I fixed that up. I…
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Chet Letters – January 27, 1952
Fort Ord, California Hi Sis: Well it is about time I wrote, don’t you think? Tomorrow is the start of our thirteenth (13) week of basic and it is getting to be…
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Chet Letters – November 22, 1951
Fort Ord, California Dear Betty & Jr. Well today is Thanksgiving and we are getting no passes, but it is raining and cold so it doesn’t make much different. It has been…
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Chet Letters – September 3rd, 1948
Betty: Hi, it is to hot for me here and I miss the fellows at home, so don’t send any of those pictures unless I say so. I am trying to talk…