STRICKLIN, Herman Alexander, (1894-1975).

Herman Alexander STRICKLIN was born at Lutts, Tennessee, Wayne County on 21 December 1894. To the late Nancy Caroline GREESON and Matthew Harvey STRICKLIN.

Mr. STRICKLIN received his elementary education at the Johnson’s Chapel and Pinhook Schools, and his higher education at Wayne County College, Waynesboro, Tennessee.

He began his professional career, as a teacher, in Wayne County Schools, as early as 1914, serving at Mt. Zion and at Bear Creek, near Copeland’s Chapel. His salary was thirty dollars a month.

On 12 December 1917, Mr. STRICKLIN and Dola Matilda LINDSEY of Martins Mills, Tennessee, Wayne County were married. Almost immediately, then, he left for service in the United States Army and basic training at Camp Gordon, Georgia. His young wife followed and lived in near-by Atlanta where they were together whenever they could be until he was sent in April 1918 to Camp Upton, Long Island, New York, to await shipment overseas.

A short time thereafter, Mr. STRICKLIN was in France with the 82nd Infantry Division where, at one time, he was in battle for twenty-three days, in the St. Mihiel Drive, and in the Argonne Forest, “one of the bloodiest battles that was fought during the war.”

The war over, by 5 May 1919, Mr. STRICKLIN was back in “the good old U.S.A.” and was soon given an honorable discharge with the rank of private first class.

Returning then to Lutts, he applied for an appointment with the United States Postal Service, and effective 20 June 1921, he was notified of his employment as a rural mail carrier, Route 4, Waynesboro, at the annual salary of eighteen-hundred and ninety dollars. Later, however, he transferred to the Lutts Post Office where he served as carrier for Route 1 from around 1922 until his retirement in 1955.

During these years Mr. and Mrs. STRICKLIN became the parents of three sons: Herman Lindsey, now of Florence, Alabama; and William Ellis of Hendersonville, Tennessee. The youngest son, Thomas Earl, died in Washington, D.C. in 1972.

On 3 June 1975, Mr. STRICKLIN died, and on 14 November 1979, Mrs. STRICKLIN died. They, with their son, Thomas, are buried in the Lutts Cemetery.
Pictured at left:
Front of postcard sent by Herman A. STRICKLIN to his wife, Dola, from France in 1918.