This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nyden, Carlson, Dovey Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/260 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, July 1, 1918 PLATTSMOUTH BOY ON SHIP PRES. LINCOLN THEODORE ROOSEVELT NYDEN BORN IN THIS CITY, NOW MEMBER OF NAVY, FLOATED 18 HOURS BEFORE RESCUED. NOW VISITING AT HAVELOCK Had Exciting Time and Hard Experience While on Life Raft In the Atlantic Ocean. >From Thursday’s Daily. Yesterday morning as Edward G. DOVEY, who has been at Chicago was returning home, he fell in with Teddy NYDEN, who was born at the time Theodore Roosevelt spoke on the lawn of the court house, Oct. 2nd, 1900, and was named for the Colonel, and made his home in this city until some four years ago, when he with the folks went to live in Havelock. Mrs. Nyden, his mother, is a daughter of our former townsman, Peter CARLSON. After leaving here young Teddy went to work as an apprentice in the Burlington shops at Havelock, at the age of sixteen, and after having worked for a year joined the navy. He had been of the transports carrying troops to France, and was returning home when about five hundred miles out from shore of that country, the ship was torpedoed. On the life raft which provided, he with others were afloat on the ocean for eighteen hours before he and the others were picked up, and taken to Brest, France. He says the excitement was intense at the time of the torpedoing of the President Lincoln and her sinking, and that much suffering was experienced, before they arrived at the port. Mr. Nyden was in the machine room, in the hull of the vessel, where his work was located, and was known as an oiler, but in this particular time was near deck, and thus was able to get away and was not injured by the shot of the torpedo. He says that when he shall return he will not work in the bottom of th! e ship again. He has been promised his choice as on deck or below, and he is taking the deck work. Teddy will be in Plattsmouth in a few days and will visit with his many friends here.