Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Letters from H.B. Morgan September 1 and 4, 1945

These letters are from Dave's grandfather Harry B. Morgan to Dave's family living in Louisiana near Esler Field in 1945. H.B. Morgan and his sons that were home were working on a garage which would include an apartment for Dave's family.
He mentions that he needed to go to Cleveland, Ohio, which I think must have been for business. He also discusses "applying" for a new car.

This next letter continues on the same topic of the garage. We do not know what "point system" H. B. is talking about. The sketch below is for the garage and apartment that H.B. and his sons (Lowell, Garner and Mason) were building for Dave's family when they returned after the war. Dave doesn't remember it being particularly small---he said it was all he knew. He remembers they used outside stairs to get to the apartment---after he fell off them, additional handrails were put up for smaller hands.

According to Dave:
In Granddaddy's sketch of the apartment layout: Harry and I had the "upper right" bedroom bordered by the front and alley [which was a gravel drive leading uphill to the top of the farm], Mother and Dad had the bedroom at lower right, the kitchen was upper left and the room was lower left. I don't recall where Tom slept, maybe it was the front room. / Dave

1 comment:

DaveM said...

In Granddaddy's sketch of the apartment layout: Harry and I had the "upper right" bedroom bordered by the front and alley [which was a gravel drive leading uphill to the top of the farm], Mother and Dad had the bedroom at lower right, the kitchen was upper left and the room was lower left. I don't recall where Tom slept, maybe it was the front room. / Dave