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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page v
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
The First Interview (1996) Learning about History “First Hand” 1
Archaeological Surveys 2
Why Not Ask Grandma 2
Is an Ethnographic Study Feasible? 3
The Army Wrote a Scope of Work 3
January 2005: The Staff Archaeologist Resumed Interviewing 4
Additional Research 9
Limitations of the Study 11
Presentation of the Information Gained from the Interviews 12
A Walk through Pond Beat 13
THE REVEREND MCKINLEY JONES
INTERVIEWS AND RELATED RESEARCH 31
The Union Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church 31
The Union Hill Cumberland Presbyterian
Church School/ Union Hill School 34
The Store and the Lodge 39
Ownership of the Land 40
Inman Cemetery 43
The Family of the Reverend McKinley Jones 57
McKinley Jones: His Boyhood 63
Daily Life on the Farm 64
Social Interaction in the Pre-Arsenal Communities 66
POLLY WHITE ISAACS 68
The Family 68
Daily Life 68
THE JOHN HERTZLER FAMILY OF OHIO: On Pre-Arsenal Land? 70
Evidence that the Barn and House were Located on RSA Land 72
DOROTHY HARRIS FOSTER 73
Location of the Property 73
The Family 73
Dorothy Harris Foster's Mother's Family 83
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