Menial Horton Kiser Letters and Photographs, 1943 - 1946

This collection consists of six letters from Corporal Menial Horton Kiser, United States Army, during World War II, to his family. Two of the letters are written to his “Pop,” Mr. Colson Kiser, Jeffersonville, Indiana. The letter dated 1 April 1944, to his father, Edna, and Jack, is a partial letter with only one page. One is written to his brother, Jack Kiser, in Olive Hill, Kentucky, but the address is crossed out. Another letter is written to Pop, Edna, and Jack, from Horton. The last letter is to Edna and Jack from Mimy (Horton's wife) and Horton. He writes a little about his duties, dating, needing them to send him cigarettes, family sickness, his marriage, and his father's death. He also writes to his brother, Jack, that he received a Bronze Star for the North Africa Campaign. There are seven photographs, all snapshots. Six of them are of Horton and/or his friends during the war. One of them is from the 1920s and depicts young Horton and his brother or cousin, Harve, with two dogs.