Solved! Mystery World War I Soldier Identified
In 2016, I inherited some of my grandmother's personal papers. This included some postcards from the early 20th century to her paternal grandparents, Frank and Mary Ellen (Ingersoll) Bryant of Los Angeles. They were originally from Bloomington, Illinois. The earliest postcard in the collection was from a soldier, Warren Allen, sent from Paris, France in about 1918. When I originally shared this on my blog, I did not know how Mr. Allen was related to the family. There was also a 1930 postcard from Alice Allen of South Bend, Indiana addressed to "Dear Cousins": 24 November 1930 Postcard from Alice Allen to Mrs. R. F. Bryant from family collection. It turns out that Mary Ellen had a first cousin, Alice Louella Ingersoll, who married William E. Allen in Bloomington on 24 September 1890. They had at least three sons, Howard, Warren, and Herbert, born in the 1890s. Twenty-four year-old Warren William Allen (1893-1970), was working as a bookkeeper and residing in Chicago wh
