Clyde Darling Straw

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MI birth records Name Clyde Straw Birth date 26 Aug 1894 Birth place Concord, Jackson, Michigan Gender Male Father name Lewis Straw Father birth place Michigan Mother name Alice L. Straw Mother birth place Michigan Film number 2322559 Digital GS number 4207163 Image number 1330 Reference number item 2 p 183 rn 490

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World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record - Clyde Darling Straw of Concord, Jackson County, MI; (marrital status:Single; age 22 y) occ: farm laborer for Alfred Woodliff; medium height and build with brown eyes and brown hair U.S. Veterans Cemeteries, ca.1800-2004 Record - Clyde Darling Straw 1996

Jackson Boys Now At Camp Pike, Ark., To Move
Date: Sunday, June 9, 1918 Paper: Jackson Citizen Patriot (Jackson, MI) Page: 13
News that the 87th Division at Camp Ike, ARK. in which several Jackson men are serving is soon to move to Camp Dix, NJ is contained in a letter from Private Clyde D. Straw of Headquarters Co. of 812 Engineers, to his cousin Miss Leora Daniels of Tekonsha. Private Straw was formerly of Concord. Several Jackson men are in machine gun companies at Camp Ike. the letter follows:
"Camp Pike, ARK
Dear Cousin and All,
I received your letter and was very glad to hear from you. I hope these few lines find you all well. I am feeling just fine and have some good news. Sometime between the first of June and the middle of the month the whole 87th Division is going to move to Camp Dix, New Jersey. We are packing now. We will stay there until our company or regiment reaches fighting strength and then we will take a short boat ride.
It is getting so hot here that I am glad we are going and it will also give me an opportunity to see more of the country. We might just as well be in France or on our way for the more that Uncle Sam gets over there the shorter the fight will be. I guess when the US boys get after the Germans good and strong they will find we are not in the war to kill women and children as they have done in their hellish fighting.
We are born to win and win we will for we are taught to win and the people of the U.S. A. are doing their bit even if money is the only chance they can get at the Huns. I am proud of the people of the United States and the good will they have and are showing by helping the Red Cross and buying Liberty Bonds. I am more than proud to be a soldier in this great war and I am longing for a chance to drive the Germans back.
This Army life is hard in some ways but we can stand it. We are a big family of boys and we soon act like brothers to each other. We have been taking our dinners with us and staying out all day to sketch but our colonel gave out orders for all work of that kind to be stopped at present, as we are going to move. The order came from General Sturgis who commands the 87th division.
With love to all,
Clyde"


Census: 1920, Jackson, Jackson, MI; single Dorter (Dexter?)Straw born c1874 Clyde D. Straw c1895 Lulu Straw 1901

census 1930 Jackson, Jackson County, MI Clyde c1895 Ruth c1900 Gerald c1923 June c1926

DOB DOD per SSDI Roseburg, Douglas, Oregon

Oregon death index DOD POD

Eagle Point National Cemetery Jackson Co. Oregon Straw , Clyde Darling, b. 08/26/1894, d. 11/24/1996, US Army, WAGONER, Res: Roseburg, OR, Plot: A 0 122, bur. 11/27/1996 Straw , Ruth Louise, b. 01/03/1899, d. 05/22/1987, US Army, CW4, Res: Roseburg, OR, Plot: A 0 122, bur. 05/26/198

Find A Grave Memorial# 1228561

Clyde married Ruth Louise Bryant, daughter of Royal S. Bryant and Cora Josephine Craig, in 1920-1921. (Ruth Louise Bryant was born on 3 Jan 1899 in Michigan, died on 22 May 1987 in Douglas, Oregon and was buried in Eagel Point Nat'l Cem, Jackson Co, Oregon.)