Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1919 — SAM DDVALL RETURNS HOME [ARTICLE]

SAM DDVALL RETURNS HOME

Rensselaer Boy Saw Nearly Two Years Service in France. Samuel O. Duvall, who was discharged from the army service at Camp Sherman, Ohio, last week, arrived in Rensselaer Saturday evening with his wife, who had gone to Indianapolis to meet him. Sam is looking well, despite*his nearly two years service as an ambulance driver with the French army, during which he was in some of t'he most heavy battles of the war. It, is understood that Mr. and Mrs. Duvall have had many flattering offers to enter upon the stage and lecture platform, and have accepted an offer from a chautauiqua bureau. Mrs. Duvall is well educated and speaks English, Spanish and Italian almost as well as her own language—French. The Indianapolis News of Monday evening contained the following mention of Mrs. Duvall: Mrs. Samuel O. Duvall, recently of Paris, France, but now of Rensselaer, Ind., has volunteered her services as a speaker for the Victory loan and will be sent out by the publicity department of me woman’s Victory loan commitbee of Indiana to speak throughout the state. Mrs. Duvall, who was Laura Benoist, was taken prisoner by tne Huns and held behind the German lines for many months. She is now the bride of an American soldier, and both have volunteered tneir services at state Victory loan headquarters.