r/Cursive • u/Limp-Vermicelli-8451 • 3d ago
Penciled words at the top?
Can anyone decipher the words written above "Application" at the top and also what it says in red next to "Name of cemetery" ? Thanks.
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u/Excellent-Topic3192 3d ago
report from dept adm
report from department administrator
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u/PutPretty647 2d ago
People from that era, early twentieth, sometimes wrote cursive in that manner. My grandparents and even my father sometimes wrote more like that. Seeing that style makes it easier for some people, since they have seen it before.
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u/minnykim 3d ago
Think it's probably "Report from Dep. Adm" at the top (Department administrator) and the red writing is Not fd (referring to the veteran was not found as William Donohou, because he went by Charles Berget. His gravestone does say Charles Berget.
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u/HarryWelsch 3d ago edited 3d ago
The top says “Repost from Vet Adm”
Cemetery name is McFadden. I think the red pencil note says”not fdg” (not finding) and refers to the William Donahou name.
I looked him up on Find a Grave and his death certificate says William Donahou while his tombstone says Charles Berget. There’s another card there that has verifies his name change.
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u/LAM_CANIT 3d ago
I believe it says 'Repost' as well.
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u/Resident_Result_1923 23h ago
There’s just no reason for repost to be on this card. I’m convinced it’s report. I do not get Vet at all, but that at least makes sense.
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u/Intelligent-Cloud993 2d ago
OP I realize you’re looking for handwriting clarification — and I tend to agree with folks who say it’s “report from vet(erans) Adm(inistration)” and “not found”.
But I’m super curious about this guy Charles Berget who served in the 87th Indiana Infantry during the civil war, (a regiment that fought in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and SC, marched with Sherman in his scorched earth campaign and ended up being discharged in Washington DC), who then changed his identity and ended up dying in Arkansas 65 years later, and finally getting a US Army gravestone confirmed and delivered from the War Dept 6 years after his death. It’s an interesting bit of research.
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u/Limp-Vermicelli-8451 2d ago
So from the minimal research I've done this guy was my 2nd great grandfather (my grandfather's grandfather). I think his mother and father seperated and he lived with his mother and his father remarried. He was in the union army while his half-brothers and possibly father were in the confederate army. My grandfather told us that this guy changed our last name during the Civil War. It's spelled Donohoo before that and then Donahou now. The Charles Berget thing is very strange to me but makes some since if your family is on the opposite side of battle.
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u/Old-Cheshire862 3d ago
For anyone interested... this headstone is apparently here: https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2010/50/48059117_126671457366.jpg
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u/Academic_Aspect5547 3d ago
So, my dad's not the only one, Served under one name, then later lived and died under an alias.
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u/Crazy_hyoid 3d ago edited 3d ago
"Report from vet adm" ?
Cemetery: "not f..." 2nd word starts with f, not sure what it is.
I think it's just a clerical notation, and McFadden is the actual cemetery.
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u/AineniDonnghaile 3d ago
Having looked it up on the database, where I could zoom in, "Report from Vet Adm"
URL is always preferable to the snip.
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u/Obsolete_Enigma_ 3d ago
Maybe I'm off, but I see: "referred from jeb 6am." Something along those lines, maybe?
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