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Note: The Citizen, Howard, Kansas, July 24, 1901 Over 300 Elk county people are seeking land in the drawing at El Reno, Oklahoma. Among those reported leaving this week are Dr. Costello, John and Clyde Burchfield, Noyes Barber, Frank Force, C. H. Wilson, Frank Blizard, Ed Jones, Jim Moore, Ben Clifton, Geo. Glagler, Newt and Sant Anderson, Joe Sims, Chas. Swartwood, H. E. Swartwood, Geo. Bailey, L. Carver, Lee Roberts, Dr. Willis Trowbridge, Dave Stroud, John Carter, Earl Stroud, Chas. Clark, Marion Pool, Ed Harris, G. E. H. Goodner, Will Litsey, Jeff Jackson, Clarence Gilmouth and many others. The Citizen, Howard, Kansas, Thursday, September 6, 1917 Marion Poole was a caller at The Courant office Monday. He is one of the first three Elk county boys who will go to Ft. Riley to be coached to take care of the rest of the boys who will go later. By an error in the published report it was stated that an exemption had been asked for Marion. This was a mistake; he did not ask exemption, nor did any one ask for him. On the contrary he asked to be sent with the first detachment, and came home from Iowa to be on the gound in time. Marion Poole is a handsome, upstanding, manly young Kansas product and looks already like a real soldier. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Poole of the nearby neighborhood and he was arranging to enlist in Iowa when his number was drawn, so he patriotically chose to come back to Kansas and give his services from his own state and county. The Citizen, Howard, Kansas, September 12, 1917 With the hand clasps and well wishes of the local board who selected them, and a number of friends, Elk county's first contribution to the National Army left Howard for Fort Riley, last Saturday morning. Three men made up the first 5 per cent and Simpson Rader, one of the three men made responsible for their safe conduct to the training camp. Those composing the first 5 per cent were: Valentine Simpson Rader of Howard, Marion Albert Pool of Howard and Orion Guy Smith of Moline. They are all well educated, bright, neat appearing young men, by going in the first squad should get good places. The Citizen, Howard, Kansas January 23, 1918 Corporal Marion Pool was home from Camp Funston for several days returning Sunday. He is looking well and likes his work. Letter to the Citizen CORPORAL POOLE WRITES The following letter from Corp. marion Poole, one of the three first Elk county boys to leave in the draft, was received last week. Poole was home a short time ago, going back to Camp Dodge to submit to further operations to correct complications arising from wounds received in France. Marion was wounded several times and sent to a hospital but until the last time was able to go back into the fight. Camp Dodge, IA., March 15, 1918 Dear Alan Flory: You will have to forgive me for not answering the letter you wrote me from coffeyville, as I have been very busy and am not much when it comes to writing. Would like mighty will to have seen you when I was home but time flew so fast and the weather was so bad that I stayed pretty close at home. What do you think of the peace plans? I am not a "plush seated" man so am not up-to-date on such things, but while I don't just know about some of the matters, I do know that time will tell. You know a young children when first hatched is very weak but later develops into a full grown chicken and so may this and we all hope so. I saw by The Citizen where Poole was wonded iin a drive with the Eighty-ninth Division. While I trained in Kansas with this division, )corporal in Company K, 353rd regiment), I was in the Third Division over there and had been dodging bullets some time when the Eighty-ninth left Kansas. I left Funston March 1, 1918, with a bunch of 1,500 boys and we were transferred to the old Third and sailed May 16th and June 1st we were on the front. I was in the Seventh Infantry, Company B, and our regiment lost very leavily in June in the Belleau Woods. We were up against the real stuff. We relieved the maries and it was hell. There were sure some dead Dutch in those woods, also some of our own lads were killed there. One afternoon in the Belleau Woods we went over the top and my company last heavy. Our platoon had 42 men when we started and we came back with eight, so you can see what we had to go through. Rain and mud, no eats or water some days, yes days. Then in July when the Germans thought they were going to Paris we were right there to hit them hard, and then was when it was hell in bit lots. The night of July 15th they broke through our lines in one place and got across the Marne and that was as far as they fot. We were going over the top to guide them back to where they belonged when Poole got his. I was in charge of an automatic rifle squad and we all were wounded and two were killed and I am still on the cripple list. Was operated on the second time February 7th and am coming fine but an getting tired of the crutches. Have to wear a plaster cast on the foot and let yet. Outside of that I am as good as ever. It was very tough to hear of Rader's death. Could not hardly believe at first but what it might be false. He and I used to pull our bunks together on cold nights and sleep together. He was a fine man. Never made any boasts, but was always present at the proper time when anything was to be done. Well, alan, I could tell you a whole lot, but I will not try to write it as I am going to try to get home again maybe fefore getting the discharge. Hope to get out of this army for good by the first of June. Boy, that will be a happy day. Will close, hoping all are O. K. Yours truly, Marion NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--Letters from Corp. Marion Poole Mrs. Homer Armstrong has received letters from her brother, Corporal Marion Poole, now in France. The following selections from the letters are given us to print. July 24, 1918 -- Dear Sister: Received your most welcome letter some time ago, was glad to hear that all were well. You will have to excuse me for never writing. I have hardly written to any one but mother, but I am going to try and drop a line to every one while I have nothing else to do as soon as I can get on my pegs. I happen to be in the base hospital at present, but just a wound in my right leg below my knee. It isn't so bad, but will do for this time. And believe me we were right after those Boches when I got mine and they are not even with me yet. The only good Boches I have seen are the dead ones. Well we are having real nice weather everything looks beautiful and the crops are good. Never seen better wheat than I have in France. The farms are all small and it is amusing to see how the people farm the land. I have seen them plow with four horses strung out single file and saw them working and ox with a horse, maybe the women will be holding the plow and the old man driving with a jerk line. You have seen pictures of the way people used to do. Well that is still the ways of Sunny France. It is pretty hard for me to write, but don't worry for I am getting the best of care and won't be long until I can get up, and then some Boche had better keep his head down. Hoping this finds all well and hello to all the kids. August 1, 1918 -- Dear Mother and all of the folks: Will try to write a few lines to let you know I am getting along very good. The only thing I wish is that they would serve five meals per day instead of three. So you can see my appetite is still with me. The Red Cross brings around smokes each day which a soldier enjoys most of all things. so now I hope you won't worry. I will be up and around by the time you get this. I don't know just what a fellow is allowed to write, but if they mark it out no harm done. I will try and tell some of my experience in active service; The first time our Regiment went to the front we had it hot and heavy in other words we cut our eye teeth, well when I reached the front it seemed to me like the war had just started instead of the fourth year of it. Seemed to me that all the Boches that were left were directly in front of me and knew I was there. Anyhow I found myself still there in the morning and things quieted down, which was quite a relief. But then the command came down the line that at a certain minute we would go over the top and of all the racket I never heard! When we rapped at the Boches door the Boches called "Kamrad--Mercy!" We gave them mercy all right. But the worst of all we couldn't get water and eats up to us. A fellow sure gets thirsty at the front. But the Americans take it all pleasant and consider it part of the game which any real American will. But when we were relieved that was a happy moment also. If ever I was tired and sleepy I was then and there was some dirt on our faces and whiskers also. The last time when I had my hard luck we were all feeling fine and up at them. I was second in charge of half the platoon when we started to give the Boches a call. I don't know much about that visit. All I know I crawled about four hundred yards and those Boches were making it pretty warm for crawling with a sore leg. Oh! it is a great life, and here is hoping I get back to good old U.S.A. where it is more quiet and home like. But I want to march through Berlin first with the Boches speedily in the lead. What branch of service did Robert Devine enlist in? How is grandpa and grandma? Tell them hello. And tell Oscar Wyant I said he would be all right for a fellow generally closes one eye when shooting his rifle. How are the crops this year? Everything looks fine here. Well I will close hoping this finds all well with best wishes to all. Corp. MARION POOLE. The Citizen, Howard, Kansas August 28, 1918 Frank Poole received a letter last week from his son, Marion, stating that he had been on the firing line and the second time had received a wound in the right leg that sent him to the hospital. He was in goodspirits and spoke highly of the care he was having. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE--Howard Courant, November 20, 1919 Frank Poole was in Howard last Monday. Some months ago Frank moved from this neighborhood to over near Piedmont, and we don't see him as often as we used to. He says his son, Marion Poole, late of the A.E.F., is up in Iowa and getting along all right. Marion will be permanently crippled by reason of the gunshot wound he received in France, but his general health is good. He writes home that he made eleven dollars in one day recently, gathering pop corn. *********************************************************************************************************** Marion served in the United States Army in World War I. He entered the army September 7, 1917 and was sent overseas April 6, 1918. He was in the battle of the Marne River, Ballow Woods. He was wounded in the lower right leg and was returned to the United States December 1, 1918. He was in a hospital for a long time and was discharged from Camp Dodge, Iowa May 29, 1919 as a Corporal. He received a Purple Heart. After his discharge he worked for eighteen years for the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska. Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992 [LDS FamilySearch extraction]: Groom's Name: Marion A Poole Groom's Age: 30; Est. Birth Date: 1893 Groom's Birthplace: Howard, Kans Bride's Name: Valborg Therkildsen Bride's Age: 26; Est. Birth Date: 1897 Bride's Birthplace: Denmark Marriage Date: 10 Oct 1923 Marriage Place: Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa Groom's Father's Name: J F Poole Groom's Mother's Name: Florence Royse Bride's Father's Name: Lee Therkildsen Bride's Mother's Name: Elsie Peterson Groom's Marital Status: Single Groom's Previous Wife's Name: Bride's Marital Status: Single ----------- Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M02661-8 System Origin: Iowa-EASy Source Film Number: 1476881 Reference Number: 65 Newspaper Article----The Howard Courant, Thursday, August 25, 1927 Mr. and Mrs. Marion Poole of Omaha, Nebraska, are visiting Mr. P.'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Poole of Union Center. Marion is in employ of the Railway Co. as cream checker, and he says Omaha ships and handles more cream than any station in the world, and that he has a busy job. Marion was one of the first Elk county boys to get into the service at the opening of the World War, and came back with a serious wound received in action. But while he was permanently crippled in the use of one leg, he has so entirely overcome it that he walks and moves around without perceptible impediment. He is a busy boy, and only gets to visit his home folks about once a year. 1930 Census Omaha Twp, Ward 8 City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska enumerated April 28, 1930 Dwelling #660, Family #667 POOLE, Marian A., head, own-$3500, m/w, 37, KS IA IA, checker-railroad, married at age 31 ______, Valburg M., wife, f/w, 28, Denmark Denmark Denmark, married at age 22, immigrated 1922 1940 United States Federal Census Ward 8, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska enumerated April 19, 1940 Dwelling: 5631 Francis Street POOLE, Marion Albert, head, m/w, 47, born in KS, baggage delivery clerk/depot, owned home/$2000 ______, Nellie, wife, f/w, 38, born in MO Marion and Nellie Poole moved to Portland, Oregon in 1940. He was in Civil Service during World War II and worked as a guard at an army air base and a guard in a shipyard. He also was a member of the Coast Guard Reserve. Funeral services were held at The Little Chapel of the Chimes on April 17, 1970 at 11:00 a.m. Final resting place, Willamette National Cemetery. Pallbearers: DAV Chapter No. 1 OBITUARY--The Oregonian, Friday, April 17, 1970 MARION ALBERT POOLE -- A. Portland resident for 30 years, Marion Albert Poole, 77, 3911 NE 11th Ave., died Tuesday. Mr. Poole was a clerk in the Danmore Hotel for 24 years before retiring. Born Feb. 14, 1893, in Howard, Kan., Mr. Poole served in the Army during World War I. He was a member of the World War I Veterans Post No. 1. He is survived by his wife, Nellie, and a sister, Mrs. Alice Morris, Howard. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Killingsworth Little Chapel of the Chimes. Interment will be in Williamette National Cemetery. FUNERAL SERVICE ARTICLE--The Oregonian (Date not shown) MARION ALBERT POOLE--Funeral services for Marion Albert Poole, 77, of 3811 NE 11th Ave., Danmoore Hotel desk clerk for 24 years before his retirement, were held Friday at The Little Chapel of the Chimes, Killingsworth. He died Tuesday in a Portland hospital. Mr. Poole, born in Howard, Kan., came to the Portland area in 1940. He served in the Army during World War I and was a member of Veterans of World War I Barracks No. 1. Survivors include his wife, Nellie M., and a sister, Mrs. Alice Morris, Howard, Kan. Interment was in Williamette National Cemetery. OREGON DEATH INDEX, 1903-70 Marion Albert Poole, died 14 Apr 1970, Multnomah County, Oregon. Certificate: 5989 Spouse: Nellie
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