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May 5, 1918
Written to ?Dear Cousin,? otherwise unidentified worker in the Red Cross. No envelope exists for the letter.
?Glad you got the picture.? The picture in uniform?the only one in existence? must have been posed while on leave, most likely in March, 1918. ?Some change since the last time you saw me don?t you think so.? He is not allowed to say what he is doing but ?can?t kick a bit.?
Speaks of the good times they used to have in Waveland.
1. Dear Cousin. Perhaps Cousin Oswald on the maternal side
1.	Unc. His dad?s brother? :When I was a kid he would tell me about the
Civil War.?
2.	Jennie and the children. Probably Genevieve (?Grandma Jenny?) Me Neely, the widow of ?Cap Me.? She had two boys, Stanton and Godfrey.
3.	The Barnes girls. Eva and Edith Barnes were close friends of Edith. Later, in 1924, Eva would stand for Edith?s son Richard at Christening.
4.	Waveland. Next town west of Bay St. Louis on the Gulf Coast.
5.	My Aunt. Mother Price jad two sisters, both living in New Orleans.
5.1. Nona, Carrie. Mother?s cousins.