While looking at my father-in-law's WWI book of the history of his division, the 90th Division composed of men from Texas and Oklahoma, I noticed a long list of names of those killed in action. John T. Pate, Company G, 359th Infantry was listed as being killed on Oct. 26. I assume this was 1918.  Does anyone have any interest in this man? I would be glad to share the book with you.                                                  Billie Pate Grunden

Hi Billie, While sorting out old e-mails to save or delete, I ran across this one from Jan 30th. At the time I had either kept it to review later or actually may have overlooked the importance of your reference to the 90th TX/OK Division in WW1. Hubby Bill's birth father, Wm. D. Pate, was in that division, enlisted in Kingston, OK, sent to TX for training and was sent to France for a year and discharged in 1919. For several years we have been looking for Wm. D.'s death certificate so we could apply for a VA memorial burial plaque for his grave in Weleetka, OK, to commemorate his service. Recently I stumbled upon the death certificate and have now applied for the final paperwork noting his discharge date that we need to reconstruct his service record (St. Louis VA records burned in 1973). Is there anything else of interest regarding service and other Pates in your father-in-law's book? Is that the memorial book that I found a copy of in the Madill, OK, library covering the area's service people? I was able to get a copy of the page regarding Wm.D.'s enlistment, service, and his picture from the book. Anything new there? Thanks for anything you can provide. Nita Fry -----Original Message----- From: Billie Grunden <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Jan 30, 2010 9:26 pm Subject: [PATE] John T. Pate While looking at my father-in-law's WWI book of the history of his division, the 90th Division composed of men from Texas and Oklahoma, I noticed a long list of names of those killed in action. John T. Pate, Company G, 359th Infantry was listed as being killed on Oct. 26. I assume this was 1918. Does anyone have any interest in this man? I would be glad to share the book with you. Billie Pate Grunden ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Nita, The book we have is a history of the military action that was given to my father-in-law about the time he was discharged in 1919. I got his military record from NARA. He also trained in Texas. This was during the big flu epidemic and some of the men got sick with the flu. His brother came down with pneumonia on the ship to France and was put in the hospital in France. My father-in-law went straight to the front and saw a lot of warfare of the trenches, mud, bullets, etc. The books list the officers, but of the pfc's, only those who were killed or died. There are two books. One is "History of the 90th Division" and the other is "357th Infantry, It's History from Organization Until Part of the Army of Occupation, 1917-1919." There are only a few pictures and they are of battle locations, equipment, and various other scenes. Not many have identifiable US Soldiers in them. If you would like to know more, send me your phone number by private email and I will call you. It will not increase my phone bill.                                                              Billie P. Grunden --- On Tue, 8/3/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PATE] Pates in WW 1 TX & OK 90th Div To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 11:15 AM Hi Billie, While sorting out old e-mails to save or delete, I ran across this one from Jan 30th.  At the time I had either kept it to review later or actually may have overlooked  the importance of your reference to the 90th TX/OK Division in WW1. Hubby Bill's birth father, Wm. D. Pate, was in that division, enlisted in Kingston, OK, sent to TX for training and was  sent to France for a year and discharged in 1919.  For several years we have been looking for Wm. D.'s death certificate so we could apply for a VA memorial burial plaque for his grave in Weleetka, OK, to commemorate his service.  Recently I stumbled upon the death certificate and have now applied for the final paperwork noting his discharge date that we need to reconstruct his  service  record (St. Louis VA records burned in 1973). Is there anything else of interest regarding service and other Pates in your father-in-law's book?  Is that the memorial book that I found a copy of in the Madill, OK, library covering the area's service people?  I was able to get a copy of the page regarding Wm.D.'s enlistment, service, and his picture from the book. Anything new there? Thanks for anything you can provide. Nita Fry -----Original Message----- From: Billie Grunden <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Jan 30, 2010 9:26 pm Subject: [PATE] John T. Pate While looking at my father-in-law's WWI book of the history of his division, the 90th Division composed of men from Texas and Oklahoma, I noticed a long list of names of those killed in action. John T. Pate, Company G, 359th Infantry was listed as being killed on Oct. 26. I assume this was 1918.  Does anyone have any interest in this man? I would be glad to share the book with you.                                                  Billie Pate Grunden       ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message