Arthur Augustus "Gus" Burgess (March 13, 1892-September 6, 1961)

Arthur Augustus Burgess, Sr.,
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Arthur Augustus Burgess was born on March 13, 1892, in Winfield, Marion County, Alabama, to Charles Pinkney Burgess and Annie Elizabeth Warren [1-6]. Gus, as he preferred, had eight siblings, although the total remains debatable. They included William Charlie (February 2, 1880-May 26, 1900), Lillie Victoria (September 22, 1882-June 29, 1942), Grover Vance (November 4, 1885-June 17, 1908), Rosa Lee (July 1, 1884-September 12, 1964), John Harrison (November 10, 1888-December 24, 1963), Minnie Belle (March 7, 1894-May 19, 1962), Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" (October 20, 1897-December 5, 1962), and Georgia Mae Burgess (January 26, 1901-March 3, 1905) [7-26]. Gus spent his youth growing up on his father's farm in Baccus, where he and his siblings aided their parents in growing the family's crops [8-18].   

At an early age, at twenty-two, Gus knew that owning and working a farm like his father's wasn't something he wanted. So, in April 1914, he took the state licensing exam to become a teacher after graduating from Florence State College [19-21]. In June, six weeks later, the state notified Gus that he had successfully passed his examination and assigned him to teach the third grade [28-29]. His plan to teach was coming to fruition [28-29]. But in the days when Gus's voice echoed school halls, teaching certification was a yearly process [27-39]. It was a process that Gus repeated in 1915, 1916, and 1917 [27-39]. However, in 1916, Gus no longer carried the teacher title [27-39]. His title had been elevated to Professor, teaching and overseeing the new school in Union Chapel [27-39].

1916, March 1, Daily Mountain Eagle
, Jasper, Alabama, Page 4

While Gus was beginning his teaching career, a war across the ocean was starting to rage [40-41]. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife, Sophie, were shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip [40-41]. A month later, on July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war against Serbia, beginning World War I or the Great War [40-41]. The war they believed would "end all wars." Russia, Belgium, and Great Britain quickly became Serbian allies, while Germany and Italy joined Austria-Hungary [40-41]. As Americans began seeing Germany as the aggressor, coupled with German U-boats sinking American ships in the North Atlantic, President Woodrow Wilson, who had tried to remain neutral, had no other alternative but to ask Congress to declare war against Germany [40-41]. On April 6, 1917, Congress voted in favor, and the United States officially entered the European theater causing American men to enter into hostile nations they had never seen before [40-41]. And enthusiastically, Gus became one of them, temporarily forfeiting his teaching career! As the news began to travel that the United States had entered into war against Germany and its allies, the young men of Walker County enthusiastically enlisted to fight. There were battles needing fighting, and Gus wanted to be among the brave (40-41). Gus said, regarding the day he decided to join the service, in April 1917, in Birmingham, Alabama, "When I left home, I had no idea what branch I would enlist in [2, 42]." He said, "I stumbled into the Marine recruiting office by chance, and it struck my fancy. So, I shipped from there [2, 42]." On April 22, Gus arrived at the Paris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Port Royal, South Carolina, officially enlisting in the Marines on April 25 [2,42]. Gus was surprisingly anxious to face the battles occurring in France [2, 42]. But, of course, his dream became temporarily postponed as he faced the rigors of "boot camp" or "boob camp" and five to six hours of training daily, boasting he became "handy in the use of the rifle, as well as the scrub brush, of course [2, 42]."

 

1917, August 8, Daily Mountain Eagle,
 Jasper, Alabama, Page 8

After completing boot camp, Gus was finally getting one step closer to engagement, or so he believed [2, 42]. On July 14, Private Burgess finally received what he had been anxious for, his first orders as an active service member [2, 42]. Gus says, "Our dream was becoming realized as we packed our sea bags and prepared for a trip [2, 42]." Gus said, "Naturally, we were [a bit] excited to embark upon a trip halfway across the continent [2, 42]." But unfortunately, he was still a mission away from France with orders sending him to Hingham, Massachusetts, where his duty would become to guard the Naval Ammunition Depot [2, 42]. Gus remained there until April 3, 1918, before receiving his new orders to Quantico Marine Base in Prince William, Virginia, where he became assigned to the 140th company [2, 45]. However, earlier in February, he had spent time in Guantanamo Bay attached to the 24th company before being sent back to Hingham, Massachusetts [43-45].  

In January 1918, Gus wrote home to the Daily Mountain Eagle. He said he wanted to come home, but duty-bound, he didn't want to return until "it was over, over there" [42]. Little did Gus know in April, he and the Headquarters Company, 6th Regiment, would be sailing towards Coublanc, France, to join the 137th company in the 2nd Replacement Battalion aboard the U.S.S. Henderson [43-45]. On May 8, Gus's feet were finally on foreign soil. But he and his Regiment didn't stay in Coublanc long before moving towards and reaching Noisiel, France, on May 17. The arrival of Gus and his Regiment at the Marine base camp, along with the 5th Regiment already in position, formed the 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, consisting of 9,164 enlisted men and 280 officers [43-46].

By the end of May, the Germans seemed unstoppable against their enemies on the Western Front [43-46]. On May 27, German General Eric Friedrich Wilhelm Lunderdorf sliced the northern part of the Allies in half, creating a three-mile gap, allowing the Germans to reach the Marne River near Chateau-Thierry [43-46]. They were dangerously close to Paris, making it necessary for Gus and other reserve divisions to hasten in to close the breach [43-46]. Gus abruptly learned the horrors of trench welfare, facing rats, poisonous gas, and raids from the enemies [43-46]. At night, Gus's Regiment had wire parties [46]. But despite the name indicating gleefulness, they were far from festive [46]. For Gus's Regiment, it would mean repairing, constructing, and improving their defensive fences and sabotaging and destroying the enemies [46]. It was the first time his Regiment had casualties, losing 40 men to a German gas barrage [43-46].

Thanks to the deployment of Gus's Regiment, they successfully stopped the advancement of Germany's troops [43-47]. However, General Lunderdorf had no intention of giving up, aiming to isolate the British Forces from the French [43-47]. But on July 14, Germany penetrated the defensive wall creating a gap again between the Chateau-Thierry and the Argonne Forrest [43-47]. Promptly responding, the American troops hurried through the pouring rain, short on sleep and even shorter on ammunition, grenades, mortars, and machine guns [43-47]. Somehow, with the information gained from prisoners of war and their fast advancement, the Americans successfully surprised German forces [43-47]. After eight days of each side bombarding the other, on July 18, the battle ended [43-47]. It became the turning point of the war [43-47].

The following month, Gus and his Regiment, led by General John J. Pershing, were determined to break through the German lines [43-48]. Shocking German forces, American forces were, for the first time, in the offense [43-48]. Catching German soldiers off guard, the aggressive move by the American soldiers was successful [43-48]. But it wasn't easy [43-48]! The ragtag men of the newly established 4th Brigade, lacking ammunition and food, found it difficult to move quickly with supplies [43-48]. So often, the 4th Brigade had to abandon them alongside the road [43-48]. Some of the war's most heroic actions by American forces occurred during the St. Mihiel offense, but sadly, they suffered 706 casualties during those bloody battling days [43-48]. 

If there were ever a moment in Gus's life when he looked back upon it and questioned God's purpose and plan for him, it most certainly had to be during the 47 days of the Meuse-Argonne offense that began on September 26, 1918 [43-46, 49]. On October 3, at 5:55 in the early morning, Gus and the allies stood at the "Hindenberg Line," key terrain referred to as the white mountains, and attacked the German lines, an area the Germans had been holding since 1914 [43-46, 49]. When the battle cries finally became silenced, and the sound of artillery at last muted, 26,000 dead men and 120,000 casualties remained as evidence of God's control [43-46-49]. And for some reason, Gus had been spared the same fate as the soldiers that lay dead surrounding him. But there was some solace found when the smoke cleared. The war was over with the signing of the Armistice on November 11 [43-46, 49]. 

For seven months after the war had officially ended, Gus remained overseas. But on July 27, 1919, Gus departed Brest, France, aboard the Wilhelmina and headed back towards the United States, arriving in Hoboken, New Jersey, on August 6 [50-53]. After briefly returning to Quantico, near where his journey had begun over two years before, Gus ended his career in the military on August 13 with "excellent" character [2]. As a soldier, Gus had written in a poem Wishes Of A Soldier: "God, let me by some word or act. Do the world a service and not retract [54]." Gus had fulfilled his wishes honorably.

1919, September 10, Daily Mountain Eagle,
Jasper, Alabama, Page 6 

While Gus served his country in the military, at home, the love of his life, Myrtle Herron, waited patiently with worry for his safe return. And two weeks after coming home to Walker County, he and Myrtle were finally married on August 27, 1919, after years of waiting out the war [3-4, 55-77]. Myrtle was the only daughter of farmers James Simpson Herron and Rosetta Catherine Webster, born on December 24, 1898, in Eldridge, Alabama [3-4, 57-77]. Immediately after marrying, the two of them began their family, and together they had Mildred (October 4, 1920-January 24, 2010), Dorothy (May 30, 1922-August 6, 2019), Arthur Augustus (January 19, 1928-November 18, 1998), and James Harold Burgess (June 11, 1932-September 24, 2006) [78-98].

As Myrtle and Gus added to their family, Gus returned to his pre-war teaching career. In 1919, invested in his community as a first-grade educator, Gus became the Principal of the Cordova school system [99]. In 1923, Gus, realizing a need, promoted the erection of a new seven-room school at Alridge Mines, where the community was expanding thanks to the running of the mines six days a week [100-101]. As the Principal of the new school system, Gus became charged with overseeing the move of his students into the most recent and largest up-to-date teaching facility [100-101]. But his tenure there did not last long because the following year, in 1924, thanks to the economy stimulated by the payroll of employees of the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation, Gus transferred to the Townley school system, becoming the Principal in that growing and emerging community [102].

1925, October 14, Daily Mountain Eagle,
 Jasper, Alabama, Page 10 

In 1925, Gus decided to emerge himself into local politics and ran as a Democrat nominee for the tax collector office [104-108]. However, his efforts proved unsuccessful despite his popularity within the community [104-108]. So he returned to his teaching roots, where his talent to reach children academically was profound [104-108]. But in 1945, Gus resigned from his position as the Principal and entered another phase of his life and career [109-115]. And on November 19, 1945, Gus was officially appointed the Winfield United States Postmaster [109-115]. It was a position Gus retained for sixteen years until his death from cardiac arrest on September 6, 1961 (109-115). Gus's interment is in West Alabama Memorial Gardens in Guin, Marion County, Alabama [1].

1955, May 5, The Florala News,
Florala, Alabama, Page 17

Throughout their life, Gus and Myrtle remained active and vital members of their local community [115-119]. Gus was a member of the American Legion and Winfield Masonic Lodge, and Myrtle was a member of the Home Demonstration Club [115-119]. Gus was also an entrepreneur, owning a local store [115-119]. Both were members of their church, Winfield Baptist Church [115]. After Gus's death in May 1986, Myrtle moved to Heber, Utah, near her oldest daughter, Mildred [57-58, 68]. Myrtle died on October 5, 1991, at a local hospital in Heber City [57-58]. Before Myrtle's death, she resided at the London Springs Care Center [57-58, 68]. Myrtle's family brought her remains home to Marion County, where she lived nearly all her life [68]. Myrtle's children buried Myrtle beside her beloved Gus and their dad at Alabama Memorial Gardens [68]. Gus and Myrtle were married for forty-two years. She remained a widow for thirty after Gus's untimely death.

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101. “New School Building At Aldridge Completed,” 1923, December 26, Daily Mountain Eagle, Jasper, Alabama, Page 8.

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113. “Appointment Made For Postmastership,” 1945, November 13, Daily Mountain Eagle, Jasper, Alabama, Page 6.

114. “Postmaster Dies Of Heart Attack,” 1961, September 7, Daily Mountain Eagle, Jasper, Alabama, Page 1.

115. “A. Burgess Winfield-Postmaster Buried,” 1961, September 12, Daily Mountain Eagle, Jasper, Alabama, Page 2.

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118. “Worthwhile Project,” 1955, May 5, Daily Mountain Eagle, Jasper, Alabama, Page 17

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