UPDATE: 1999-01-07 SSN 417-07-9080

!BIRTH: Cert.; Passport; Death cert.; [Army papers]; personal account

!MAR: News account; personal account; Marriage certs (2-Church & State)

!DEATH: Cert.; obits Birmingham News; personal knowledge

Educated in Birmingham public schools, Bethlehem (Pa.) Prep, Lehigh, and Auburn. Served in WWI: 1st Lt. 321st F.A., 82d Div., Meuse-Argonne, St Mihiel. Mining engineer and business executive. Operated coal and clay mines at Lehigh, Blount Co., Ala. Associated with his cousin Herbert Tutwiler in landholding trusteeship established by their fathers. Died of heart attack/emphysema. Enjoyed hunting, fishing, boating.


[From Letter #44, 24 Nov 1918, PTJr to PTSr]
"Left N.Y. May 18 [1918]. Arrived & left Liverpool England May 30 for Winchester. Left Winchester & South Hampton [sic] for France June 4. Arrived La Havre [sic] France June 5. Left on the 6th and arrived La Courtine June 8. Went to Chaumont, Amer. Hq., to gas school July 11 and stayed a week. Went thru Paris both ways and saw quite a little of the town and most of the interesting places. We left La Courtine for the front August 8. Our first guns went into position the night of August 22. Our first air raid was in Ville le Sec on August 18, near Toul. We had two horses killed but none of the men were touched. Saw the front lines for the first time Aug 24 from the hill just east of Pont a Mouson [sic] from which hill we could see Metz on very clear days. On Sept 12 at 1:00 AM the St. Mihiel drive started. We layed part of the barrage but didn't advance as we held the pivot on the right flank. Our Headquarters were in a large chateau in Vil-au Val. Left there for the Argonne on Sept 19 and arrived in Futeau a little south of Varrennes on Sept 26. Marched all the way. The Argonne drive started Sept 25 at 10:30 P.M. (Artillery) and the infantry went over the top at 5:30 A.M. the 26th. We left Futeau to get into the fight on Oct 4 and went into position on the 6tht about 6 miles north of Varrennes, just south of Fleville. We made one advance on the 12 of about four miles. Those days saw the hardest fighting of the Argonne and the 82nd caught the brunt of it around Montblainville, Cornay, Chatel Chehery[?] and St. Juvin. On the 1st Nov. at 5 AM. the second phase of the Argonne fight started. Our infantry had been relieved the night before but the division (80th) that relieved them didn't have their artillery with them so we stayed in the line to support that division. They say we put down the prettiest barrage they have ever seen and when they started advancing it was a walk away. The bosch say it wasn't a barrage, but that we just threw ammunition dumps at them. It must have been awful for the next day when we advanced, rather that night, there was a strip of ground which had previously been No Mans Land and which was nothing be shell holes. It doesn't look as though _anything_ could have lived in that inferno of high explosive, shrapnel & gas. Yes, we gave them a good dose of gas the night before so that it would be cleared out before we got there. We advanced thru St. Juvin, Sommerance, St. Georges, Immecourt, Sivry, Buzancy, Bar, Vaux, Sommuthe up to Beaumont. There our artillery was relieved on the 8th of Nov. and we started for the rear. The armistice was signed and firing ceased on the 11th of Nov. at 11: AM. We were on the road just west of Varrennes headed for Les Islettes where we spent a few days before coming here. We are now about a mile and a half north east of St. Meuehold[?], a very old & rather pretty town but very few people in it.
"Hope to hear that we are on our way back to the states in a few more days [!] or maybe weeks [not till May 1919!]. And here endeth _our_ part in the World War. ..."

BURIAL: The following signed the guest register at the funeral home:

BURIAL: Llewellyn W. Johns [funeral director]
Mrs. Walter Scott Rountree
Mrs. Rogers Cox (Jean Rountree)
Mrs Henry S Fowlkes
Mrs. E. B. Glenn
Thomas H. Franklin
Aileen Franklin
Ned Franklin
Mr. & Mrs. Herschel Creel
Laura Ausbun[??]
Evelyn Moore
J. Edgar Bowron
Mrs. Willis C. Hagan
B M Ashworth
Allen Carver
Geo. L. Bentley.
Joe M Franklin
Lucy Simpson
Elizabeth Agee
Mrs. S. R. Dewey
Mrs. Henry M. Edmonds
Mrs. George T. Lane.
Mrs. Henry S. Fowlkes. [bis]
Mrs Marye Y. Dabney
Mrs. W. S. Rountree [bis]
Herbert Robinson
Mr and Mrs. Rucker Agee
Mrs. Drayton nabors
Dr. & Mrs. Fletcher Comer
Miss Helen Comer
Mrs Ralph Smallman Sr.
Temple W. Tutwiler II
Mrs. Douglas Arant
Mr. & Mrs. Harry McCormack
Mrs William S. Tarver
Ed Willis Barnett
Walter C. McCoy

BURIAL: The following signed a sheet at the house:
Emily Fowlkes
Carl Hulsey
Eugenia Dabney
Mr & Mrs Jacons
Frances Blair
Charles Blair
Mrs. Clarence Wiley, Jr.
Olivia Turlington
Eula Cross (Mrs. N[?]. E. Cross)
Mrs Biddle Worthington
Mrs Margaret Badham
Biddle Worthington
Gayle[?] R. Cook, Jr

BURIAL: The following names are on the same list, in the handwriting of Priestley Toulmin, III:
Mr + Mrs Allen Wood
Bob + Kitty Glenn
Madeleine Stallings
Louise Blackman
Mac Grant
Jack Smith

BURIAL: Dr Fletch[er] Com[er] [ in unknown hand, probably his, at end of list]

BURIAL: The following list is on a separate sheet:
Emily Fowlkes Cake
Eugenia Dabney Greek bread, Strawberries
Marion Blair - Shrimp (Ancient Age!!) [Handwriting of Catharine C. Toulmin]
Fred Jones 2 1 loaves bread
2 qts ice cream [Handwriting of Martha S. Toulmin]
1 Pound Cake [Handwriting of CCT]
[Remainder in handwriting of MST]
Nell Gaston Angel food cake
Camie [V. Cameron Craig] creamed turkey (frozen)




Cert.; Passport; Death cert.; [Army papers]; personal account

Cert.; obits Birmingham News; personal knowledge

UPDATE: 1995-05-21


"Left N.Y. May 18 [1918]. Arrived & left Liverpool England May
30 for Winchester. Left Winchester & South Hampton [sic] for
France June 4. Arrived La Havre [sic] France June 5. Left on
the 6th and arrived La Courtine June 8. Went to Chaumont,
Amer. Hq., to gas school July 11 and stayed a week. Went thru
Paris both ways and saw quite a little of the town and most of
the interesting places. We left La Courtine for the front
August 8. Our first guns went into position the night of
August 22. Our first air raid was in Ville le Sec on August
18, near Toul. We had two horses killed but none of the men
were touched. Saw the front lines for the first time Aug 24
from the hill just east of Pont a Mouson [sic] from which hill
we could see Metz on very clear days. On Sept 12 at 1:00 AM
the St. Mihiel drive started. We layed part of the barrage but
didn't advance as we held the pivot on the right flank. Our
Headquarters were in a large chateau in Vil-au Val. Left there
for the Argonne on Sept 19 and arrived in Futeau a little south
of Varrennes on Sept 26. Marched all the way. The Argonne
drive started Sept 25 at 10:30 P.M. (Artillery) and the
infantry went over the top at 5:30 A.M. the 26th. We left
Futeau to get into the fight on Oct 4 and went into position
on the 6tht about 6 miles north of Varrennes, just south of
Fleville. We made one advance on the 12 of about four miles.
Those days saw the hardest fighting of the Argonne and the 82nd
caught the brunt of it around Montblainville, Cornay, Chatel
Chehery[?] and St. Juvin. On the 1st Nov. at 5 AM. the second
phase of the Argonne fight started. Our infantry had been
relieved the night before but the division (80th) that relieved
them didn't have their artillery with them so we stayed in the
line to support that division. They say we put down the
prettiest barrage they have ever seen and when they started
advancing it was a walk away. The bosch say it wasn't a
barrage, but that we just threw ammunition dumps at them. It
must have been awful for the next day when we advanced, rather
that night, there was a strip of ground which had previously
been No Mans Land and which was nothing be shell holes. It
doesn't look as though _anything_ could have lived in that
inferno of high explosive, shrapnel & gas. Yes, we gave them a
good dose of gas the night before so that it would be cleared
out before we got there. We advanced thru St. Juvin,
Sommerance, St. Georges, Immecourt, Sivry, Buzancy, Bar, Vaux,
Sommuthe up to Beaumont. There our artillery was relieved on
the 8th of Nov. and we started for the rear. The armistice was
signed and firing ceased on the 11th of Nov. at 11: AM. We
were on the road just west of Varrennes headed for Les Islettes
where we spent a few days before coming here. We are now about
a mile and a half north east of St. Meuehold[?], a very old &
rather pretty town but very few people in it.
"Hope to hear that we are on our way back to the states in a
few more days [!] or maybe weeks [not till May 1919!]. And
here endeth _our_ part in the World War. ..."

MAR: News account; personal account; Marriage certs (2-Church &
State)

Educated in Birmingham public schools, Bethlehem (Pa.) Prep,
Lehigh, and Auburn. Served in WWI: 1st Lt. 321st F.A., 82d
Div., Meuse-Argonne, St Mihiel. Mining engineer and business
executive. Operated coal and clay mines at Lehigh, Blount Co.,
Ala. Associated with his cousin Herbert Tutwiler in
landholding trusteeship established by their fathers. Died of
heart attack/emphysema. Enjoyed hunting, fishing, boating.

First saw front lines. Metz visible on clear days.

MEMBERSHIP: American Clan Gregor Society No. 367 (in 1937 Yearbook)