Guide to the Menial Horton Kiser Letters MSS.2034
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by April Burnette
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
2008
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@bama.ua.edu
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English
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Menial Horton Kiser Letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.2034
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.2 Linear feet 6 letters, 7 photographs, 2 envelopes
- Dates:
1943-1946
- Abstract:
This collection consists of six letters from Corporal Menial Horton Kiser, United States Army, during World War II, to his family in Kentucky and Indiana. Also includes seven photographs.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of six letters from Corporal Menial Horton Kiser, United States Army, during World War II, to his family. Two of the letters are written to his “Pop,” Mr. Colson Kiser, Jeffersonville, Indiana. The letter dated April 1, 1944, to his father, Edna, and Jack, is a partial letter with only one page. One is written to his brother, Jack Kiser, Olive Hill, Kentucky. Another letter is written to “Pop, Edna, and Jack,” from Mimy (Horton’s wife) and Horton. The last letter is to Edna and Jack from Mimy and Horton.
He writes a little about his duties, dating, needing them to send him cigarettes, family sickness, his marriage, and his “Pop’s” death.
He also writes to his brother, Jack, that he received a Bronze Star for the North Africa Campaign.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
April Burnett, 2008
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
The Menial Horton Kiser Letters, S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2007
Biographical/Historical note
Corporal Menial Horton Kiser was in the 555 Replacement Company with the United States Army. He enlisted on November 3, 1942.