Dates: 1943-1945.

Biography:

Ann Keith Frazier Somerville, who preferred to go by Keith, was born on May 14, 1888, in Tennessee, the daughter of Louise Douglas Keith (1860-1942) and James Beriah Frazier (1856-1937). She is the wife of Robert Nugent Somerville (1886-1946), and the couple had one daughter, Keith Somerville (1914-2006).  Keith died on December 23, 1978 in Mississippi, and is buried in the New Cleveland Cemetery, in Bolivar County.

 
Scope and Content Note:

Scrapbook containing clippings of "A Letter to the Boys in Service" written by Keith Frazier Somerville, of Cleveland, Mississippi, and published weekly in the Bolivar Commercial. Mrs. Somerville noted in the volume that it is "A Bit of World War II as it came to the East side of Bolivar County, Mississippi." The volume is 30 by 45 cm. in size and contains 44 pages.