Physical Description: 0.08 Linear Feet(1 folder)
Language of Material: English.
Scope and Contents
This series contains two postcards. One postcard was written by William Hepburn, Sr. on January 4, 1916 to a woman named Jane
Ralph. Hepburn's relationship to Ralph is unknown. Hepburn was born in Elgin, Scotland in 1884 and emigrated to Canada at
an unknown date. He emigrated to the United States in 1923 and died in Galesburg, Illinois in 1964. The postcard features
a soldier with a letter in his hand and a woman in an oval on the right hand corner with the inscription, "Bringing my Love
My sweetheart just a card I post
To tell the girl I love the most
That I am thinking every day
Of you, just you, while I'm away"
In the postcard, Hepburn simply says that he has landed back, presumably England given the return address, and that he hopes
she recovered from New Years. The other postcard features a man by the name of Roy L. Nelson. The postcard is undated and
the person on the photograph to the left of Nelson is unknown. Nelson was born in Henderson, Illinois in 1895 and died in
Galesburg, Illinois in 1935. The nature of Nelson's and Hepburn's relationship is unknown but they could have known each other
given they both seemed to live in the same town.