Oral History Interview with Zedic Colbert, May 16, 2007 Page: 5

                                
Mr. Misenhimer
So you were on your own then?
Mr. Colbert
Yes I was on my own. After that I went to work for another guy down there at Messer
named Willie Tom Guthrie. I guess I stayed there a couple of years. He worked in town
at a store and drove a school bus. He asked me one time if I wanted to work for him. I
came home with him from town. At the supper table he asked me if I wanted to work for
him. He had about 20 acres. He said, "You just run this farm like you want to." Of course
he was driving a school bus and working in town and he didn't have time to farm. So I
just took over that little farm worked it for a couple of years. Then I went to a CC Camp
in 1940.
Mr. Misenhimer
The Civilian Conservation Corps?
Mr. Colbert
Yes.
Mr. Misenhimer
Some people call it the Tree Army; is that the same?
Mr. Colbert

I guess, I don't know.
Mr. Misenhimer
What all did you do with them?
Mr. Colbert
I worked on road construction and building construction and fighting forest fires. I went

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