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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 69
School. Polly Isaacs said:
The first school I went to was after I got six years old. There wasn't but one teacher and he taught every class. His name was Sheffield, and he lived in Decatur. That was down off Highway 20 at a church called Living Water. We were living in Limestone County near Greenbriar. Near Bell Mina.
We moved to the arsenal about 1937. Then I went to school at Union Hill Church. We had two teachers. One was Lucy Jane Humphrey. The other was Beulah May Patton. She was my mother's sister. We walked a couple miles to school. I know we went and came on time. Indian Creek ran through where we went to school and where we lived. We lived up the hill from Indian Creek. There was high rocks and a thing called a bluff. We had a pasture there where we put the horse and cows. We had to walk a foot log to get across to the school. The Army put in a bridge there before we left.
Neighbors. McKinley Jones lived on the next farm. Polly said her grandpa and Hezekiah Lanier were close neighbors, so the children knew each other. In reading her notes, it was not clear to the researcher whether Forest White lived near his father. The researcher made a second call to Polly Isaac in April of 2005, about a month after the first call, but Mrs. Isaacs did not seem to be feeling well. The researcher felt she should not intrude upon Mrs. Isaacs further.
Inman Cemetery. Polly said mother died in 1939 on the day her father's sister, Mary Ellen Jordan, was buried. She said they were buried in Inman Cemetery.
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