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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Just for kicks, I checked a couple. I think the difference is between when they registered (1917-1918) and when they were mustered (Aug 25 1918).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Earl Ray Burns, listed here as "Olympia, WA" shows up on the WWI Draft Registration Cards at Ancestry as<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Earl Ray Burns, b 19 Jan 1895, b Michigan, registered Lane County.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>His home address is 1568 Orchard in Eugene.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>He is a jeweler.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>His father and mother are partly dependent. He is single. Dated 5 Jun 1917.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Is it possible that he was in Olympia by August 1918? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Herman Wilgot Eck listed as being in Oakland, CA, was born in Minn, and lived in Fall Creek, Oregon, when he registered June 5, 1917.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That would certainly explain alot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Pat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In Tucson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> or-roots [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robyn Greenlund<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 30, 2013 11:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> OR-Roots<br><b>Cc:</b> Jim Dezotell<br><b>Subject:</b> [or-roots] An interesting list of WWI draftees<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'>Ran across this list of draftees for WWI from Lane county.. not sure why so many of the men are from elsewhere, perhaps someone on the list can explain it? But so many of the surnames were names I recognize from this list over the years that I thought I would transcribe it and send it on.<br><br><b>Lane County to Send 78</b><br><br>Latest Contingent of Drafted Men Will Entrain August 27<br><br>Eugene, Or., Aug. 24 (Special) - The Lane County draft board has announced a list of 78 men, to whom induction orders have been issued. The registrants have been notified to report on August 27. The board gave no information regarding the training camp to which the men will be sent, asserting that its action was in keeping with the recent order of the Provost Marshal.<br><br>The list follows:<br>Henry George Fox, Eugene<br>Earl Ray Burns, Olympia, Wash.<br>Fritz Carl Petzold, Eugene<br>David Clayborn Mesby, Portland<br>Grant Lee Colter, Glenada<br>Herman Wilgot Eck, Oakland, Cal.<br>Alvin Morris Long, Marshfield<br>Auldern Low, Vida<br>Frank Rice, Eugene<br>Ivan K. Goldsmith, Oregon City<br>Leo J. Barger, Eugene<br>James Elmer Shark, Buhl, Idaho<br>Arthur Earl Gillam, Eugene<br>Albert Bjerke, Eugene<br>Fillmore Dale Wyatt, Cottage Grove<br>Jesse Minney, Leaburg<br>Robert Guy Conner, Cottage Grove<br>Clair B. Pennington, Eugene<br>A. Warren Wilkins, Eugene<br>Roy James Harvey, Springfield<br>Ray Albert Powelson, Mill City<br>Lee Everett Bonney, Eugene<br>William Christian Jensen, Junction City<br>Bert Theodore Eaton, Walla Walla<br>Frank M. Willis, Cottage Grove<br>Henry V. Howe, Eugene<br>Lloyd Henry Brown, Myrtle Point<br>Willie L. Gibson, Point Terrace<br>Jonathan William Rutledge, Coburg<br>Merle Ernest Barber, Portland<br>Stanley Bliss Thompson, Eugene<br>William Tracer, Junction City<br>William Jennings Bryan Moore, Elmira<br>James Linklater Gorrie, Springfield<br>Hobart Shuck, Eugene<br>Frank Burton McBee, Springfield<br>Lybert Joy Frank, Eugene<br>Lawrence William Manerud, Wending<br>Frank Lednicky, Junction City<br>George Ivor Whitsell, Goshen<br>Delbert Brewer, Noti<br>Ray Baumgardner, Clatskanie<br>Fred Oral Golden, Junction City<br>Harold Earl Wells, Marcola<br>John Frederick William, Swiss Home<br>Harry Harvey Cole, Springfield<br>Holbert Rose, Point Terrace<br>Harvey Isaac Ross, Lorane<br>Guy Rex Pate, St. Johns<br>Granville Earl Wetzell, Eugene<br>John C.A. Williams, Mapleton<br>Bert H. Snook, Moro<br>Fred Walter Knox, Springfield<br>Luther E. Rogers, Saginaw<br>Emil Bauer, Monkland<br>Walter Paul Renfro, Walla Walla<br>William Frank Lasley, Albany<br>Elmer Riggs Scott, Ada<br>Clarence Greely Cabe, Springfield<br>Victor Storli, North Bend<br>Walter Burton Renfro, Winberry<br>Edward Theodore Miller, Pleasant Hill<br>William W. Van Leuven, Oakland, Cal.<br>Howard Clair Cox, London<br>William Campbell Davis, Linslaw<br>Guy Matteson Smith, Marcola<br>Harold Louis Porter, Walton<br>David Henry Bowers, Wending<br>Frank Joseph Brauner, Eugene<br>Adolph Petersdorf, Blachly<br>Albert Brewer, Noti<br>Lowis N.Maybell, Springfield<br>Peter Momb, Walterville<br>Wa? ??? Jackson Conrad, Springfield<br>???? Vancouver, Wa.<br>???? Junction City<br>Alby Holbert Ritchey, Drain<br>Walter Nelson Gossler, Oakridge<br><br>The Oregonian (Portland, OR) Sunday, Aug. 25, 1918 Section 3 pg 7<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'>Robyn<br><a href="http://rgreenlund61@yahoo.com/" target="_blank">rgreenlund61@yahoo.com</a><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#BF005F'>Interested in Coos County History? See what's online at<br><a href="http://genealogytrails.com/ore/coos" target="_blank">genealogytrails.com</a>, <a href="http://coquillevalley.org/" target="_blank">coquillevalley.org</a>, or <a href="http://orgenweb.org/coos/" target="_blank">orgenweb.org</a> </span><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rgreenlund" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/linkedin.png" alt=Linkedin></span></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/rgreenlund" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/facebook.png" alt=Facebook></span></a><a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/my/my;_ylt=Am0e7aEv9NKVsL2NcjzyGeTpy6IX;_ylv=3" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/yanswers.png" alt="Yahoo Answers"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>