uncertainty of what was spoken Lefever: March 15th , 2007. I’m Carole LeFever and I’m at the home of Ms. Hazel Jackson, a long-time friend, and this is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time myself—have this conversation about your history, coming to Lancaster, starting maybe even where you came from

not right after, it must have been about three, four years after that. L: Alright well let’s go back a little bit. What made you decide to join the military? That wouldn’t have been a normal thing for an African American woman at that time, you were one of the first. What made you decide to go that

, my name is Carole Lefever and we’re going to focus on the beginning of American Legion Post 780, of which Nelson Polite was the charter member. So Mr. Polite— P: Yesss… L: --Can you tell me anything of, of your memory of the conversation or the thoughts or, or what set this in motion at this time? P

, 1941, he was inducted into the army at the United States at Fort Meade, Maryland and received his basic training at Camp Lee, Virginia and after four months of duty at Fort Sheridan, Illinois he was again transferred to Fort Ord, California where he uh stayed until August of ’42 where he departed for

to Hiram K. Muller for 6 acres in East Hempfield Township. Folder 2 Pages of Quarter Sessions, 1856-1867. Account of George Brubaker & Stehman Clarkson, 1868. Folder 3 Newspaper clippings of Dedication of the Washington Monument, 1885. Folder 4 Utility Notices, 1889, 1895. Newspaper clipping of