Dalzell D. Barris was the oldest of six children born to Pleasant and Dollie Barris of Spring River, Lawrence County, Missouri. He was the only boy. Dalsell wrote in a letter to Ruth Buchanan (penpal from PA) in 1918 while he was stationed at Camp Doniphan, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma: "I am not the only child, but do happen to be the only boy. But I have five as "fine" "sisters" as any fellow in the world, all of them being younger than I."
He went on to write about when he played football in high school: "I always played Left Half Back and was Captain and coach of the Home teams, High School and Town Teams, for four years straight and played on both. My last year of football playing I played with four different teams and played in sixteen games during the season without a single injury and never called "time out" in my life, so you see I have been pretty lucky and was pretty tough, and believe me I sure do enjoy the game, and it is my only dissipation for I can't keep from neglecting everything for it. Fact is I am sort of a "fiend" about it.
"I used to also coach and referee for the Girls basket ball teams at home and have played some basket ball myself, but had rather see the girls play than to play."
Dalzell volunteered in the Army in May 1917 and earned the rank of 1st Sgt. He was assigned to the 35th Division, 129th Machine Gun Battalion in the 1st World War. He was stationed at Camp Doniphan, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in March 1918(the same camp where President Truman trained). He was then tansferred to Camp Mill, New York in April 1918 and was sent to France in April 1918. He engaged in the Battle of the Argonne, where he was wounded in the arm and back.
After he safely returned from France and was discharged from the Army, he married Rubie B. Barris c. 1922 and they had one daugther, Rubie Jane, in 1923.
According to the 1930 U.S. Federal Census record, Dalzell was a manager of a sales department for farm implements in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
He remarried in 1938 to Pearl Bailey of Arkansas. He died in 1940.
He went on to write about when he played football in high school: "I always played Left Half Back and was Captain and coach of the Home teams, High School and Town Teams, for four years straight and played on both. My last year of football playing I played with four different teams and played in sixteen games during the season without a single injury and never called "time out" in my life, so you see I have been pretty lucky and was pretty tough, and believe me I sure do enjoy the game, and it is my only dissipation for I can't keep from neglecting everything for it. Fact is I am sort of a "fiend" about it.
"I used to also coach and referee for the Girls basket ball teams at home and have played some basket ball myself, but had rather see the girls play than to play."
Dalzell volunteered in the Army in May 1917 and earned the rank of 1st Sgt. He was assigned to the 35th Division, 129th Machine Gun Battalion in the 1st World War. He was stationed at Camp Doniphan, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in March 1918(the same camp where President Truman trained). He was then tansferred to Camp Mill, New York in April 1918 and was sent to France in April 1918. He engaged in the Battle of the Argonne, where he was wounded in the arm and back.
After he safely returned from France and was discharged from the Army, he married Rubie B. Barris c. 1922 and they had one daugther, Rubie Jane, in 1923.
According to the 1930 U.S. Federal Census record, Dalzell was a manager of a sales department for farm implements in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
He remarried in 1938 to Pearl Bailey of Arkansas. He died in 1940.
Dalzell D. Barris was the oldest of six children born to Pleasant and Dollie Barris of Spring River, Lawrence County, Missouri. He was the only boy. Dalsell wrote in a letter to Ruth Buchanan (penpal from PA) in 1918 while he was stationed at Camp Doniphan, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma: "I am not the only child, but do happen to be the only boy. But I have five as "fine" "sisters" as any fellow in the world, all of them being younger than I."
He went on to write about when he played football in high school: "I always played Left Half Back and was Captain and coach of the Home teams, High School and Town Teams, for four years straight and played on both. My last year of football playing I played with four different teams and played in sixteen games during the season without a single injury and never called "time out" in my life, so you see I have been pretty lucky and was pretty tough, and believe me I sure do enjoy the game, and it is my only dissipation for I can't keep from neglecting everything for it. Fact is I am sort of a "fiend" about it.
"I used to also coach and referee for the Girls basket ball teams at home and have played some basket ball myself, but had rather see the girls play than to play."
Dalzell volunteered in the Army in May 1917 and earned the rank of 1st Sgt. He was assigned to the 35th Division, 129th Machine Gun Battalion in the 1st World War. He was stationed at Camp Doniphan, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in March 1918(the same camp where President Truman trained). He was then tansferred to Camp Mill, New York in April 1918 and was sent to France in April 1918. He engaged in the Battle of the Argonne, where he was wounded in the arm and back.
After he safely returned from France and was discharged from the Army, he married Rubie B. Barris c. 1922 and they had one daugther, Rubie Jane, in 1923.
According to the 1930 U.S. Federal Census record, Dalzell was a manager of a sales department for farm implements in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
He remarried in 1938 to Pearl Bailey of Arkansas. He died in 1940.
He went on to write about when he played football in high school: "I always played Left Half Back and was Captain and coach of the Home teams, High School and Town Teams, for four years straight and played on both. My last year of football playing I played with four different teams and played in sixteen games during the season without a single injury and never called "time out" in my life, so you see I have been pretty lucky and was pretty tough, and believe me I sure do enjoy the game, and it is my only dissipation for I can't keep from neglecting everything for it. Fact is I am sort of a "fiend" about it.
"I used to also coach and referee for the Girls basket ball teams at home and have played some basket ball myself, but had rather see the girls play than to play."
Dalzell volunteered in the Army in May 1917 and earned the rank of 1st Sgt. He was assigned to the 35th Division, 129th Machine Gun Battalion in the 1st World War. He was stationed at Camp Doniphan, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in March 1918(the same camp where President Truman trained). He was then tansferred to Camp Mill, New York in April 1918 and was sent to France in April 1918. He engaged in the Battle of the Argonne, where he was wounded in the arm and back.
After he safely returned from France and was discharged from the Army, he married Rubie B. Barris c. 1922 and they had one daugther, Rubie Jane, in 1923.
According to the 1930 U.S. Federal Census record, Dalzell was a manager of a sales department for farm implements in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
He remarried in 1938 to Pearl Bailey of Arkansas. He died in 1940.
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