We decided to sell out and move to Arizona where two brothers [Bill and Edd?] had found work. We packed things we figured we would need to start a new household in square boxes and put them in the bed of the pickup with the mattresses on top. The pickup had a canvas top like a roof over the pickup bed. We had a neighbor, who was a young man that talked mom into letting him ride to Arizona with us. Mom and my baby sister Ellen rode up front with Eck, who drove. The rest of us, Deenie, Margaret, Pete, Russell, James and myself, along with the hitchhiker [a neighbor boy] rode in the back under the canvas top. The next day we picked up Ed at the CCC Camp.

Liberty is a small community near Buckeye, Arizona. At the time, it was a cotton camp. They had thirty to fifty wood sided tents with canvas tops. The older boys [first] got jobs on the Hollywood Turkey Ranch. [Then, later,] My brothers were able to find temporary work for farmers in the area for ten to twenty-five cents an hour.
By 1940 my older brothers Eck, Bill, and Tom had settled in California.

By 1940 my older brothers Eck, Bill, and Tom had settled in California. Soon mom and the rest of us followed. We moved into a house on Iona Street in Lemoore, California. We all got jobs, working for small wages. We helped mom to save enough money to put a down payment on a house in the town of Lemoore. [It seems that Pete and Russell married girls from Arizona, and stayed there.]