David Walker Milam, Jr. (1892-1976)
with mother, Emmie Albrona Chandler Milam

1/Lt. David Walker Milam, Jr.
US Army, WWI

photos submitted by: Walker Pierce

Descendants of David Walker Milam, Jr.

1. DAVID WALKER MILAM, JR. (DAVID WALKER6, JEHU LEAKE5, JOHN "JACKEY"4, JOHN3, JOHN2, UNKNOWN FATHER OF THE VIRGINIA1 MILAMS) was born July 04, 1891 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, and died 1976. He married MARY R. GUNN August 20, 1919 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. She was born April 08, 1893 in Merkel, Taylor County, Texas, and died April 06, 1966 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.

Notes for DAVID WALKER MILAM, JR.:
1st Lt. David Walker Milam, Jr. went through Officer Candidate School at Camp Travis, Texas in the fall of 1917 and was then dispatched to Camp Joseph E. Johnston in Jacksonville, Florida for Quartermaster instruction. Overseas, he was in charge of a machine shop truck unit, the 365th Service Park Unit of the 7th Army Division.

He was an auditor for the Texas Electric Railway in the 1920s and 30s.

Walker Pierce (Great-Grandson):
I recently was given a soldier's bible (a compact one, only the New Testament, actually) that was apparently given out to men in the U.S. armed forces in 1917. It was printed by the American Bible Society in New York and has the words ARMY AND NAVY EDITION on the front cover. The bible belonged to my great grandfather, 1/Lt. David Walker Milam, Jr.

What is especially interesting about the bible is the partial clue from the torn second page. On the remaining (left) half of the brittle, yellowed page is the following:

Name: DW Mi (torn)
Address: SPU 365 (torn)
UPO 765 (torn)
7th Div
Service: M
1917

Twenty six years later he wrote a message to his son, David Leake Milam (my mother's father) as then he was about to ship over to Europe in the second world war.

On the first blank inside page, he wrote:
Dave, try to read this more than I did. Daddy 12/14/43

And in the Memoranda pages in the back, a touching poem.
Here’s part of it:

This Bible is the one I took
Along with me that year
When I was fighting over there
For things we all hold dear
So keep it with you son and when
There comes your darkest day,
Open its pages to His word
Then don’t forget to pray

Walker Pierce
Feb 15, 2003
Austin, Texas

Children of DAVID MILAM and MARY GUNN are:

i. MARY GUNN MILAM, b. 1921; m. HERBERT AUSTIN VON DER HOYA.
ii. DAVID LEAKE MILAM, b. 1925, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; m. MARY JUSTINA GRATTAN; b. 1930, Kansas City, Kansas.