(taken from a 1938 yearbook owned by Hazel Gendron)
(Pictures at the bottom)
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Alexander, Hoyt
Allred, Clinton Andrew, Earl V. Andrew, Grant Barrett, Vaughn Beasley, Bennie Beavers, Elisha Blaylock, Arnold Bloodworth, Thomas Boyd, Lawrence L. Brackett, Fred Brawley, Jay Brawley, Mark Brown, Clarence Brown, Troice Bruce, Frank Burke, Jimmie Cadle, Clarence Caldwell, Hugh Cantrell, Boyd Cantrell, Hugh Cantrell, William Canup, Clyde Carroll, Roy Carroll, Trammell Carter, Ira Carver, Joseph Clements, Hubert Coker, Paul D. Corn, Merlet Crosby, C. Crosby, E. H. Davenport, Fred Dickerson, John Dingler, Melvin Dooley, Carroll Douglas, Earl Duncan, Arvil Edalgo, Talmadge Ensley, Arthur Erwin, John Evans, Alfred Fain, Hoyt Faulk, Jeff Fox, Ralph French, Willie Fuller, Ernest Gandolph, Leo Garland, James Garrison, Emory Gayton, William Gee, Elmer Gibson, Ralph Gilliam, Hobert Green, Samuel Hamrick, C. C. Hancock, Robert Hembree, Quinton Hill, Fain Holder, Loyd Holt, Theodore Honea, Furman Hughes, Buster Hull, O. Human, Noah Huskey, Cecil Hutson, Jay E. Ingram, Will Isaacs, Robert Jackson, Lee Jessup, Cadwell Johnson, Buster Johnson, Charlie Johnson, Gearlie Jones, Harold Jones, Herbert Jones, Jewel Justus, Glenn Kaylor, Samuel Kelley, Paul Key, Winston Kinser, William Lanagan, H. V. Lance, Auborn LeRoy, Warren S. Lindsey, Richard Long, C. J. Maxwell, J. D. Mayne, Eugene McBurnett, Joseph McClure, Walter McCoy, Ivan McKensie, James McMichael, Carl Miller, W. L. Mize, Joe Mortimer, C. H. Mullinax, Paul Nelson, Cecil Nicholson, Dewey Olson, W. O. ONeal, Chas. W. Orton, Gober Owenby, Arthur Parks, Hugh Patterson, Jesse Payne, Leonard Payne, Lush Pendley, Dillard Petty, B. M. Phillips, Dorsey Pinyan, Hugh Pope, Lenore Popham, Albert Porter, Luther Powell, T. J. Price, William Queen, Ross Quinton, Lawrence Rainey, John Rainwater, Lawrence Ray, Vinson Richards, Howard Rogers, Woodrow Royston, Grover Self, Jay B. Shepherd, James Sikes, John D. Smith, Felder Smith, Worth Soesbee, Grady Souther, Hubert Starnes, Homer L. Stewart, Leemar Talley, Howard Thomas, Fred Thomas, Willie F. Tracer, Aden A. Trippe, William Wakefield, Lawrence Walters, Glen Walton, Paul Watkins, Floyd Wheeler, James White, Warren Williams, Ernest Wilson, H. S. Jr. Wimberely, Windell |
Company 3431 was organized August 14, 1935, at Higdons
Store, Georgia, in the Fourth Corps Areas’ District “BP with headquarters
at Fort McPherson. Twenty-five South Carolina men and 128 Georgians under
the command of Lieut. Geo. C. Benton made up this original company.
Camp was located in the Cherokee National Forest, which was later changed to the Chattahooochee National Forest. Forty-eight Georgia men joined the company August 23rd, to bring the organization to full strength. There were no hardships to encounter during the early months of company 3431, as all buildings were new with a complete set of new equipment. Eating out of mess kits for the first few months was the most unhomely-like discomfort encountered. On October 15, Lieutenant Benton was relieved as Company Commander by Capt. Clarence R. Trotter. Road construction was the main work on the project during the winter months, under the direction of Mr. J. A. Abercrombie, Project Superintendent. Captain Trotter served his tour of six months’ duty and was relieved by Lieut. Virgil Comer, March 15, 1936. During the summer of 1936, much attention was turned to the baseball team, which won second place in the Cherokee CCC League. Lieutenant Comer was relieved September 24, 1936, by Lieut. Marseille Boullement who was in command until March 24, 1937, being replaced by Lieut. Lawrence L. Boyd, who later gained his captain’s commission and is still commanding the organization. Project Superintendent Abercrombie, who had been with the company since it was organized, was replaced by Mr. Nat Hancock on July 8, 1937. Twenty-six months stay of Company 3431 at Higdons Store, Georgia, resulted in twenty miles of new road building, thirty-five miles of telephone lines, one game warden dwelling, besides considerable timber survey, trees planted, bridge building, lake surveying, and planting of fish and game. Men of this organization were conquerors of several forest fires during fire season, also two of the members were sent to the flooded area as relief truck drivers in the spring of 1937. On August 15, 1937, the company was awarded a Blue Flag as the outstanding camp in its sub-district, and was still flying the flag when transferred to the Ninth Corps Area October 12th. Company 3431 arrived at Drain, Oregon, October 16, 1937, and became the tenth organization to occupy Camp Gunter GF-1. Its main work for the winter will be road construction. Previous companies at this site have constructed the following: 21 miles horse trial, 20 miles of truck trail, 75 miles telephone, 13 bridges (average length of 40 feet), one 100-foot lookout tower, and a warehouse and a crew house for the Douglas County Fire Association. The present staff of Company 3431 in its new location, Camp Gunter, Drain, Oregon, follows: Captain Boyd, Commanding; Lieut. Stephen Hanson, Junior Officers; Capt. Earl V. Andrew, Camp Surgeon; Edgar B. Grimes, Educational Adviser; E. H. Crosby, Project Superintendent, and Leo Gandolph, Henry Lanagan, Charlie Mortimer, William Olson, Clifford Crosby, Oscar Hull, Robert Isaacs, and Aden Tracer, Technicians.
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All Southern Oregon and Nothern California Camps from
1938 yearbook
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District Camps and locations in 1938 and description