Wendell Gates, Robbinsville, Graham County, North Carolina
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Wendell Gates was from Robbinsville, in Graham County, North Carolina, when recorded in 1939. As a CCC enrollee, he would probably have been in his early 20s.
[transcripption copyrigh Michael Montgomery and Paul Reed, 2017]
This is, this is Wendell Gates speaking in town hall, I was born and raised in the county of Sevierville, home is in Graham County in, at Robbinsville, North Carolina, I think that’s the most of that all.
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I been in the CCs ever since the fourth of April.
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My, my camp where I’m located at, located there at Smokemont, Company Three Four Fifty-Three.