Letter 36 - (undated)
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Local Draft Board No 1 Potosie Mo.
Gendeman.
there is a Man by the Name of Ezra.T.Huff who is registered there on Draft Board. and his wife is delicale she has had 3 children in the 3 years of their married life. one child age 2 years old is living a Boy they wore married in greenville Mo. May 17th /41. by Judge Tempelton. This Man Ezra T. Huff never supports his wife & baby he puts them on me when shi is in poor health. and I have supparted she and Baby from april 1st, /44 till. now I am a Lady 60 years old, and her grand Aunt. he claims physical Defect. his wife said he has one Testicle. but the poor young wife has had 3 children in 3 years. and she has suffered. a nerveais collapse 3 times , and I had her in Hospital. 3 times. he Simply goes away move from Place to Place and when I Complain he talks abuses to me. Can't you put him in the army or Navy even as a Dish washer he is a Big Man and physically strong. he tells his wife about his girls Ect Keeps annoying her mind then he tells her he will put her in the asylum. for Insane. she is not Educated but neither is he all my Freind say he can be put in the army. and I wont you to Know last Sunday he Come here his foce was all cut and swolen he told me and the Land Lady here he had been Robbed, and Beat by 2 men, on North Broadway. I asked him if he could Identify his assoilients he said no it was dark he got $5.00 he said to eat on. he does not work steady. from me. and he told his wife a womon he lived with done it there is a big field for his Kind young and all the girls now, and it is sure making a hardships on all of us I am afraid his wife is in danger of him. please call him in for Examination. and put him in army. do something please. this is truths so help me God.
Sincerely,
Charlotte M. Sweazea
3944 Castelman ave.
St Louis. 10 Mo.
find out where he wrks he said he will not work any more than he can help. cause he likes a night life and goodtime. I am 60 years old I am a power machine operator at. Lungstrous cleaning Co.